Your creative ticket
Your creative ticket
For children’s books Visiting Brighton’s Phoenix Art Space Open Studios this weekend (May 11th 2024) reminded me of the workshop I attended there in 2016, Drawing Fantastical Characters for Children’s Books with Chris Gilvan-Cartwright. The sessions explored ways of creating and developing characters in an experimental, playful and intuitive way. Consequences warm-up We warmed up …
Vector art for artists’ sake This piece was an assignment for my Digital Illustration Diploma. The challenge was “Vector art” using Adobe Illustrator software. Digital perspective I focussed on the implementation of perspective, revisiting my engineering and technical drawing background. Rather than creating from scratch I brought in some “off-the-shelf” art to hang in this …
Dummy book roughs and cover art for a doggy tail
Project brief Commission by independent author Jan ten Sythoff to illustrate two of his children’s short stories. Toys is about a boy whose toys start to war with each other. Jan provided the manuscript and some ideas for the composition for four illustrations. We delivered the final document design as a PDF with the text …
Project brief Commission by independent author Jan ten Sythoff to illustrate two of his children’s short stories. Meatballs is about a boy who makes friends with an alien. Jan provided the manuscript and some ideas for the composition for four illustrations. We delivered the final document design as a PDF with the text and full-colour …
Traditional painting exercise I used traditional watercolour and brushes to brush up on the process that a child may use to draw their favourite characters. I selected a minor player in the Kitten Mews series of picture books that are in development. The elephant’s Gerald, who will have a sibling (also an elephant FYI, as …
My dummy book of the classic fairy tale, created for Penguin’s 2018 “Draw Now” WriteNow programme. The brief This year’s Penguin WriteNow requirement was to create new illustrations for a potential new edition publication of a picture book ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. The existing text was provided and the brief was the standard dummy book …
Dummy picture book for author-illustrator agent representation I have prepared a full dummy PDF of the 32-page picture book ‘Looking For My Eye’ by Jeff West. It contains black-and-white rough layouts of all interior pages and spreads, plus front and rear covers. Full-colour artwork of the front cover and pp 22-23 spread is also included. …
Dummy book PDF is ready for an author-illustrator picture book agent. Contact Jeff West to look inside!
Baby driver My road to digital artist has been, in some ways, the scenic route. As a very small child, I would point and shout the names of passing cars and my love of the automobile has continued to this day. Drawing was also a talent I displayed and one of my favourite subjects to …
