Johanna Basford is an illustrator and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels. Her intricate, hand-drawn illustrations are loved the world over by those who have colored in (sometimes more than once) her bestselling books Small Victories , Rooms of Wonder , 30 Days of Creativity , Worlds of Wonder , How to Draw Inky Wonderlands , World of Flowers , Ivy and the Inky Butterfly , Johanna's Christmas , Magical Jungle , Lost Ocean , Enchanted Forest , and Secret Garden . Johanna is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee, Scotland. She likes sugar mice, floral teacups, peonies, and bumblebees.