The books' simple stories, with brightly coloured, boldly drawn illustrations, made them very popular, with sales of over 100 million worldwide across 28 countries.

The books' simple and silly stories, with bright-coloured, boldly drawn illustrations, made them quite popular.

His scenes are ingeniously conceived, his characters boldly and clearly drawn; and he never falls beneath a high level of stage effect.

The dragon is a boldly drawn image in iron oxide, not the more usual blue and white.

Van Gogh's boldly drawn "Garden of Flowers," from 1888, in brown and black ink over pencil, brought $8.4 million, a record at auction for any drawing.

A more unusual study of an artist in his studio is boldly drawn in black on a white pitcher.

Images were boldly drawn and almost abstract, as seen in a 19th-century hanging-scroll painting known as "Tiger and Magpie."

He shone the torch on the boldly drawn map of the sewer network and a gloved finger pointed to their location.

Mr. Laurents's characters, as always, are boldly drawn: they express their beliefs fully but never at the expense of their emotion.

He was so close that she had no trouble making out his boldly drawn features.