SNEAK PEEKS

...some sneak peeks of the stuff I've been working on lately.

The Lonely Raincloud

Here are some of my idea sketches (which look like the ravings of a lunatic) 

I've been working on a new idea for a children's book, which is provisionally called 'The Lonely Raincloud'. 

and a few worked up images:

more to come soon!

minibeasts

I've been thinking about children's books and so have been messing around with some simple ideas to get me started, like counting books about minibeasts.

Never never land

EDIT: I thought it might be a little dark, so I lightened it up a bit, still tinkering though:

Problems with the Polar Post

My lack of blog updates is mostly to do with the amount of work I need to do (and have been doing) , mainly on my childrens book, but also on my sea shanties project. Expect a lot more when it's all sorted but here are a few images for now! (p.s the colours are a bit desaturated by blogger for some reason)

Book Spreads.2

Some more book spreads! The pages i have yet to do are roughed out, so you can pretty much get the story hopefully. Also i have an illustration up over on ameliasmagazine.com, which i'll upload at some point with some other fashion illustrations i think i forgot!

Book spreads

SO finally an update with some book spreads! Sadly i haven't finished the whole book in time for my project hand in, so it looks like I'll be finishing it over summer. I'm about..70% happy with what i've got so far so here are a few of the opening pages:

There will be more soon, and hopefully lots of exciting other stuff too!

The Light Which Can Be Heard

So, I have lots to do and have spent lots of time not doing it. However i have come up with a working title for my book which is 'The Light Which Can Be Heard' - a translation of the Sami term for the Northern Lights. I still haven't 100% finished a single page yet (aaaaa) but here is half a spread! This is worked up from the earlier character sketch i posted, painted in acrylics and stuff and then scanned in and changed around a bit on photoshop.

Sketches

So it's been a strange fortnight and i haven't got a great deal done. But I am now forging ahead with my Sweden-inspired childrens book and also another children's book with an author friend, which is very exciting. So hopefully there will be lots of finished work soon, but for now here are some sketches for my sweden book project:

This is the three goddesses of the lavvu rising from the fire smoke ( a lavvu being a Sami tent type thing). The goddesses are called Sarahkka Uksahkka and Juksahkka, and do all sorts of helpful stuff but also can make baby reindeers blind. There are lots of rules and customs to do with the goddesses and the lavvu, and lots of coffee traditions which I want to explore a bit, maybe as end papers.

This is my little character who is off on her slightly cold and miserable adventure!

I also have some more fashion week stuff left to post but that's for another day I think

xx