Showing posts with label Pencil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pencil. Show all posts
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Development
So here is a little bit of development work from my project with Meadowside.
Since doing these characters, they've changed, so i'm posting them here!
Since doing these characters, they've changed, so i'm posting them here!
Monday, 23 April 2012
Trip to London
So today I am travelling into London to meet with my lovely publisher, Meadowside. So far it's going well although I had to move seats due to some dodgy guys staring. It always makes me feel like I've got something on my face... But anyway! So exciting because the 'Adventures of the owl and the pussycat' is in swing with an August deadline. Eek! I think it will poss be published summer 2013.
I am off to chat about the art first with my lovely art director Sarah, then we're meeting up with the editor and my mummy (the author if you're new to my blog/this book journey!) for a lovely spot of luncheon. Very nice.
I sometimes struggle with my job, scary deadlines and stress makes it quite hard, but then you get to waltz off to the big smoke and have lunch with your publisher, and it's not so bad!
Here's a little sketching I did on the train. Trains are bumpy.
I am off to chat about the art first with my lovely art director Sarah, then we're meeting up with the editor and my mummy (the author if you're new to my blog/this book journey!) for a lovely spot of luncheon. Very nice.
I sometimes struggle with my job, scary deadlines and stress makes it quite hard, but then you get to waltz off to the big smoke and have lunch with your publisher, and it's not so bad!
Here's a little sketching I did on the train. Trains are bumpy.
Monday, 9 April 2012
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Tuesday.
So, yesterday wasn't a great start to the week with a toothy baby who wanted mummy.
I am at my parents this week as my hubberoo is away sailing on the Broads for a week, and they are very kindly (and not at all grudgingly) looking after the munchkin for me so I can get back into the work groove. Sadly they live 2 hours from us so after this week it's back to juggling with hands and feet!
Anyhow, I did manage to get a little bit done yesterday. Scary times, my first line work deadline for nickjr is the 9th... Here's a little sneak at one of the images waiting to be approved.
Happy Tuesday everyone x
I am at my parents this week as my hubberoo is away sailing on the Broads for a week, and they are very kindly (and not at all grudgingly) looking after the munchkin for me so I can get back into the work groove. Sadly they live 2 hours from us so after this week it's back to juggling with hands and feet!
Anyhow, I did manage to get a little bit done yesterday. Scary times, my first line work deadline for nickjr is the 9th... Here's a little sneak at one of the images waiting to be approved.
Happy Tuesday everyone x
Friday, 19 August 2011
Exciting times
I have now started the character development for my new book with Meadowside - (well, my old book that i did for my degree that I was awarded Highly Commended for in the Macmillan Prize in 2010), but we are improving it. So exciting because, as before, my mum is writing the text for it, and i am drawing the pictures (because that's what i do, funnily enough).
You can find my mum HERE, too.
We are aiming to get to the point where we are ready to colour it all up before i go off to have my little babba, so i've got a few things to be getting on with in the next 9 weeks, but will be awesome to come back to work to colouring up this book. I hope it's going to be successful because it means a lot to me!
Anyway, thought i'd share some little character development sketches because it's nice to see that some times :)
HAPPY FRIDAY!
You can find my mum HERE, too.
We are aiming to get to the point where we are ready to colour it all up before i go off to have my little babba, so i've got a few things to be getting on with in the next 9 weeks, but will be awesome to come back to work to colouring up this book. I hope it's going to be successful because it means a lot to me!
Anyway, thought i'd share some little character development sketches because it's nice to see that some times :)
HAPPY FRIDAY!
It's been a really long time...
...since i posted anything on my blog!
PLEASE forgive my absence, but we have moved house, decorated the house, and I have been finishing off and starting projects left right and centre! And all these things are very important as I am an ever ticking time bomb, with now only 9 weeks to go until my D day (Due date!)... So it's all engines go to get it all done before baby arrives.
On the plus side though I can do a huge post here with some work I have been doing over the past few months (YAY!) and finally show you some of the things i've been colouring in :)
So to start off with we have some artwork from 'Lucille Gets Jealous' - a book i finished recently for Capstone Publishers (Little Boost Books) in the US of AAAAAAAAAA! Absolutely loved doing this book and LOVED working with them too. I have permission from them to put this work up so it's all good! Not sure when the book is out but i'll keep you posted.
The book is about Lucille who is jealous of her baby sister Margaret, and it finds Lucille getting into a sticky mess before finding out she is loved just as much as her sister. Cute story. Here are some images:
Next up we have some spreads from 'Starvin' Marvin's Big Day Out' - the third book I have illustrated for Karen Davies and her charity, Blazing Glory. You can see the previous two books i have illustrated HERE.
Very cute lions. Lions are actually quite hard to draw, well they were when i started to draw them. I always find reference is helpful when I don't know how to draw something. Always the best way to go!
So there is a little full colour update - will also do another post about a very EXCITING project I have started this week.
Bye for now!
PLEASE forgive my absence, but we have moved house, decorated the house, and I have been finishing off and starting projects left right and centre! And all these things are very important as I am an ever ticking time bomb, with now only 9 weeks to go until my D day (Due date!)... So it's all engines go to get it all done before baby arrives.
On the plus side though I can do a huge post here with some work I have been doing over the past few months (YAY!) and finally show you some of the things i've been colouring in :)
So to start off with we have some artwork from 'Lucille Gets Jealous' - a book i finished recently for Capstone Publishers (Little Boost Books) in the US of AAAAAAAAAA! Absolutely loved doing this book and LOVED working with them too. I have permission from them to put this work up so it's all good! Not sure when the book is out but i'll keep you posted.
The book is about Lucille who is jealous of her baby sister Margaret, and it finds Lucille getting into a sticky mess before finding out she is loved just as much as her sister. Cute story. Here are some images:
Next up we have some spreads from 'Starvin' Marvin's Big Day Out' - the third book I have illustrated for Karen Davies and her charity, Blazing Glory. You can see the previous two books i have illustrated HERE.
Very cute lions. Lions are actually quite hard to draw, well they were when i started to draw them. I always find reference is helpful when I don't know how to draw something. Always the best way to go!
So there is a little full colour update - will also do another post about a very EXCITING project I have started this week.
Bye for now!
Monday, 11 July 2011
Monday, 13 June 2011
Some progress...
So here is a little character from the book I am doing in the USA.
With all my characters i start off with sketchy sketches and then use my lightbox to outline them in neat pencil line.
This is important in this case as for this book I am using the pencil line as a layer in the illos. So i go from this...
...to this, where i use the lightbox again to paint over the line work so it fits once overlayed, and using a mixture of acrylics and pastel pencils, I work into the image and build it up...
...to this! Paint finished and scanned in, i can manipulate parts and colours in photoshop, and add the pencil line overlay! Whoopah! :)
With all my characters i start off with sketchy sketches and then use my lightbox to outline them in neat pencil line.
This is important in this case as for this book I am using the pencil line as a layer in the illos. So i go from this...
...to this, where i use the lightbox again to paint over the line work so it fits once overlayed, and using a mixture of acrylics and pastel pencils, I work into the image and build it up...
...to this! Paint finished and scanned in, i can manipulate parts and colours in photoshop, and add the pencil line overlay! Whoopah! :)
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
It's juuuuuuuuuuuuuune!
...so i thought i'd give you a sneaky peek at a spread for the book in Korea :)
...and a little bit of panda love...
...and a little bit of panda love...
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Sneaky peek...
Hello everyone!
I am mega busy at the moment what with moving house in 10 weeks time, growing a baby and meeting deadlines for 2/3 books!
And deadlines are getting closer by the day so the pressure is definitely hotting up!
So i'm taking a liberty and going to show you a couple of characters i am working on for one of my books - very exciting and wish i could show you more - but you know how it is! Once stuff gets published i can probably put more info up here for you to look at! But for now, i hope you enjoy these little fellas!
:)
C
I am mega busy at the moment what with moving house in 10 weeks time, growing a baby and meeting deadlines for 2/3 books!
And deadlines are getting closer by the day so the pressure is definitely hotting up!
So i'm taking a liberty and going to show you a couple of characters i am working on for one of my books - very exciting and wish i could show you more - but you know how it is! Once stuff gets published i can probably put more info up here for you to look at! But for now, i hope you enjoy these little fellas!
:)
C
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Hi everyone...
...i'd like to apologise for the quietness on the blog front - and here are my reasons.
1. I have lots of work.
2. I contractually, on the whole, can't post said work on the blog.
3. Because of all the work i have no time to produce other work to post on the blog.
4. Therefore, i am left in a catch 22.
SO, to rectify this, I am taking a gamble and am presenting you with a koala on a bike, from a book i'm working on in America. Sadly only the book, not I, will be IN America. I hope you enjoy, and are all making the very most of the sun and, quite frankly, ridiculous amount of bank holidays we seem to have stumbled across :)
Over and out x
1. I have lots of work.
2. I contractually, on the whole, can't post said work on the blog.
3. Because of all the work i have no time to produce other work to post on the blog.
4. Therefore, i am left in a catch 22.
SO, to rectify this, I am taking a gamble and am presenting you with a koala on a bike, from a book i'm working on in America. Sadly only the book, not I, will be IN America. I hope you enjoy, and are all making the very most of the sun and, quite frankly, ridiculous amount of bank holidays we seem to have stumbled across :)
Over and out x
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Some news and a couple of piggy's...
Very exciting - my publisher Child's Play have just re launched their website, which looks awesome, and i have my very own profile. Check it out HERE. The Talkative Tortoise is all done and uploaded and is currently getting the text added for the dummy for Bologna!
I'm hoping one day i'll get to go along, but as of now i'm kind of strapped for cash and i get the impression it's not cheap out there! Here's to next year?!
The book i'm working on at the moment, 'Where's Polo Neck' is going very well, i'm steaming ahead with the pencil roughs, so thought i'd add another snippet for you here.
I'm hoping one day i'll get to go along, but as of now i'm kind of strapped for cash and i get the impression it's not cheap out there! Here's to next year?!
The book i'm working on at the moment, 'Where's Polo Neck' is going very well, i'm steaming ahead with the pencil roughs, so thought i'd add another snippet for you here.
Thursday, 17 March 2011
All things new...
So here we are! One book ends and another begins! This week i will have finished 'The Talkative Tortoise' for Child's Play, and am starting the next book with Blazing Glory (see THIS earlier post). Here is a little preview of the first page!
Monday, 15 November 2010
Treehouse
I'm working on some designs for greetings cards at the moment with Emily from the Bright Agency, alongside starting the illustrations for my first book The Talkative Tortoise, which looks like its release date is May 2011 - according to Amazon! I stumbled across this today and it made me feel the fear!!! Luckily i'm already on it and have sent off the first pass of thumbnails to the publisher today.
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Exciting news!
Hello everyone who likes my blog.
We have some very exciting news here at CCI HQ.
In the last few days I have aquired TWO book deals with different publishers!
The first is with Meadowside, who are publishing the children's book i made for my degree with my mum. So we will have a book out together! that is a double whammy for me.
And secondly I am working for Child's Play (not chucky ha ha ha) - illustrating a lovely text which is a traditional tale re written by Andrew Fusek Peters. Below is the first sample i sent off to Child's Play, we've got a long way to go from here though.
eeeeee!
We have some very exciting news here at CCI HQ.
In the last few days I have aquired TWO book deals with different publishers!
The first is with Meadowside, who are publishing the children's book i made for my degree with my mum. So we will have a book out together! that is a double whammy for me.
And secondly I am working for Child's Play (not chucky ha ha ha) - illustrating a lovely text which is a traditional tale re written by Andrew Fusek Peters. Below is the first sample i sent off to Child's Play, we've got a long way to go from here though.
eeeeee!
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
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