Hippo New Year!

New Year's resolutions anyone?! I'm back in my studio and officially holding a pen in my hand. Hello 2012.

A Surprised Bunny

Here's one of yesterday's drawings. I've not got much done today, I blame the crazy weather...

Latin Bears

This popped into my head last night and I scribbled myself a little note to draw it up today if I had the time. I'm particularly fond of the polar bear. Might be a character here!

As happy as a pig with a cocktail...

I've been a bit quiet recently as I crack on with a couple of projects that I can't mention here at the mo (mostly as they're still in progress!). I'm also working on developing my characters, this little guy is Perry the Pig...

How is it November already?!

Today I've been drawing this little illustration to freshen up the entry page of my website. I was aiming for being not overly Christmassy, just vaguely festive! Hope it hits the mark.

Whizz...Bang!

Have a safe Bonfire Night folks and don't forget to check for hedgehogs before lighting any bonfires!

Hello Friday!

It's been a busy week but I wanted to share this illo with you. I'm currently working on one of my own stories and this is one of my characters!

Din-dins!

This could be either of my dogs, they're both little hoover-beasties!

New Samples

Here are some more traditional fairy tale characters. Puss in Boots is a favourite of mine and the Fairy Godmother just popped into my head one day and needed putting down on paper!

The Circus is in Town

I was drawing this yesterday and I'm not sure it's finished just yet, but I thought I'd share it with you. The horse was the most fun to draw, if anyone wants to commission me to draw a book of horses and ponies that would be awesome *unsubtle hint* .

Creating characters

Here's a test sheet for a character, a cute cat, (who bears more than a passing resemblance to my own feline friend!) in various poses. He's not got a name yet, but is definitely a boy. I love cats, they move in such a spectacular way and they have a wonderful inquisitive nature.

Frank the Fox attempt two

At Holly's request, here is my fox. I've been playing around with Frank's story for a while now, although the background here is from another book I'm working on for a client. I finally have a character I like! I'm getting this image printed for some promotional postcards, so watch out for one of these lovelies in your mailbox...

Wooohoooo!

Yes I know, it's been a while. In my defence I've had a LOT of work on and various guests and journeys have kept me away from my desk. Thanks for checking in on me though, I'm still here!

Little Dog Lost

A new character/ book idea about a little dog called 'Roo'. Possibly based on my own dog (!) apart from the lost bit. Oh now I'm hoping I haven't jinxed him or anything...

Dinosaur Scene

Here is last week's doodle, a little late due to workload...

Okay so I'm slightly obsessed with drawing foxes...

...I think it's the colour. I just love that bold dash of red.

The Rainbow Thief

Last night I was just drifting off to sleep when a story began to grow in my mind. I woke up remembering something about a magpie and colour. The general gist of it is- a magpie likes to steal objects of various colours and a little girl (or possibly boy) figures out why and brings it all to a happy conclusion. I like magpies, I like their latin name Pica Pica and I like the lovely flash of blue/ green colouring on their wings. As ever, this idea is under development whenever I get the time but I just had to do a quick sketch of my proposed main character. So here he is...

By the way, I hope everyone is enjoying the nicely freshened up website. I'll be doing a mail-out soon to alert people to the changes!

Truman the Tiger

Busy, busy, busy over here but still enough time for a quick doodle. This is Truman. Maybe one day I'll give him a story, until then he remains a lone character on a page (on a side note please remember that all of my images are copyrighted to me- so no borrowing!).

Boo!

Bet your weren't expecting that? I'm back after a little break- I've been posting over at the Storytelling Blog as my exhibition draws alarmingly close. Most of my recent work has been geared towards that, although I've updated my website with some nice new projects- including two from BEAM Education and Scottish Natural Heritage. The zebra above is a little guy I've been playing around with. I'm thinking of calling him Ace. Unless anyone has any better suggestions?

Arabian Princess

A sneak peek at one of the images I'm working on for the exhibition...