Disco Birds

Pants.

This is a bit of a picture I have just finished for the Cheltenham Illustration Awards . I have been using lots of photographed textures in my work. I quite like this, but am going to try and be a bit more free in my next one. I am now taking a run at another competition from Waterstones to illustrate a text from Julia Donaldson -she of the Gruffalo and other such lovely things. I will therefore, mostly be drawing fairys, before returning for a final spell with some pink capybaras.

Beastie goes flying

Here is a page from the picture book 'The Beast of the Thames' that I have been working away on... When I first started doing this I had totally underestimated how difficult it is to make a children's book. I didn't think it would be a picnic, but, blimey! So far I've made stuff that's been too scary, too complicated, too childreny, not childreny enough, with weird colours, with very weird colours indeed, and with spectacularly inconsistant characters.... However. Having found a very lovely creature called a capybara in Bristol Zoo, and drawn it, alot, and quietly battling away with photoshop, I am starting to feel like I'm making some progress... HOORAY! Still got a way to go, but might have an idea of which way I am heading. Which is definately a start.

Knitted Rocking Horse vs Tin Zebra

It's not going to be so much of a race, especially as my rocking horse has at least one really dodgy leg.

V&A drawings

Another sketchbook sketch. Drew these figures in the V & A some time ago, and came across them hiding in an orphaned file on my computer. Thought they might like to come out to play.

Jumping at Shadows

I am trying to use material from my sketchbooks more in my work, as I have lots of scribbly drawings like this one that never quite make it off the page. It's nice to set them loose.

A Very Lovely Dog in Bristol