Children's book illustration - spread

Victorian book

Practice sketches of lions and ships ... they seem rather Victorian ... it's fun doing this book because I get to draw other things in a slightly different style

Elephants and shadows

I did some more work on the Victorian girl story on the train this morning - it features elephants and shadows, and the themes of memory and mortality.

A little Victorian girl

I'm collecting bits and pieces for 'a little Victorian girl' picture book - a little ill child who decides to make her own magazine to make herself feel better and feel she knows the world. Any suitable images, words and thoughts for inspiration, please send them to me. It's going to be a picture book for 5 - 10 year olds.

World News Vision logo

Been working on this on the train. Considering a real change of plan. Have scribbled one up in biro on white. Will it make a good logo, and a nice T-shirt? It's inspired by the kind of work I've been doing in my children's illustration class. That really is a good class by the way.

Children's Illustration with Dee Shulman

One more sketch from the new 'picture book' sketch book! Need to work on accentuating that movement.

Children's Illustration with Dee Shulman

Here's another quick sketch from my first attempt at a children's illustration book. These are rough when I have it mapped out I may try and do it with paint or differently anyway. Will probably do one sketch version of a book and one finished version.

Children's Illustration with Dee Shulman

I've started doing a children's illustration course with Dee Shulman on a Friday evening. There's lots of animators and artists and people who work with children on the course. It's really great.
I think she's nice and she has lots of energy I really like her. She's got a great smile.
Her work is nice too.
I'm starting by drawing some ideas about Solly the dog.
Here's my first drawing. I'm doing a series of drawings taken from Solly's everyday life first, then I might see about adapting his character to a narrative a bit later.

First coffee and planting more veg. The ground is dry.

Fiep Westendorp

Oh I'm really in love with Fiep Westendorp's work. She's a Dutch illustrator making images for children's books for ages. Very graphic. I love this picture of the artist contemplating her work. Her work reminds me a little bit of that of my friend and fellow Desperado Housewife, Helen McCookerybook.

Aslan and the wicked queen

This was a good idea of Pauline's, to draw these two at this moment from the back so you can't see the expressions on the faces. I guess it's a little similar to when a dramatist puts an important scene off stage.

Sketch in front garden

This one's a semi-abstract of me looking in the window in the front garden - another 'locked out sketch'!

Looking back at this one I feel particularly pleased with it. I think it could be showing me the way to go when I do my children's illustration evening course at City Lit in the summer term.