Your creative ticket
Your creative ticket
Jeff’s internal projects.
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 …
Bedtime reading to induce the strangest dreams – from any angle Return from The Far Side I was delighted to read that Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side … comic? was considering a return to the drawing board, right here in 2020. Or rather, a return to the digital tablet. I blundered into this …
Childhood memory Drawing animals is one of my strongest early childhood memories and when I started the character design for Yggy, I recalled a certain image. Fortunately, I still had the original reference; “The Ladybird Book of African Mammals“. Back to school One session in my refresher course “Drawing Skills” at what is now Greater …
Project brief Wall art for children’s rooms. Commissioned by Wallpix Deliverables Artwork for print in a range of physical sizes, up to really quite large. Creative process One of several ideas for a range of artwork, the theme being Water Creatures. With some emphasis on a boy’s room, this great white shark character started with …
Project brief Unicorn-themed wall art for children’s rooms. Deliverables Artwork for print in a range of physical sizes, up to really quite large. Creative process This commission was part of an ongoing stream of artwork for Wallpix. The open-ended nature of the initial brief (unicorns) is resulting in many projects under this umbrella, or rather …
