Birthday Mice

Christmas Pete

I'm working on a range of these at the moment. If anyone is interested please get in touch...

Here's Frank!

Characters for 'Who Wants Frank?'

Say Hello to the Johnson twins, owners of the local garage, and their new dog Roxie. They are all part of my new children's book 'Who Wants Frank?', all about a little sausage dog looking for a new home.

I'm off to London

Hello everyone, I'm off to London tomorrow for two days to meet lovely publishing people. So if you need me in that time just give me a ring on my mobile (if you don't have it it's on my website) as I'll be away from my desk. I leave you in the capable hands, or paws, of my latest character Frank (Furter).

Master of Design

I forgot to mention my graduation last week. I'm now a Master of Design! Congratulations to all my fellow graduates and thanks to my family for attending and drinking all the free champagne!

Getting into the Spirit Early

Starting to think about the Christmas season already...

Cover for Ettie and the Birds

An idea for the cover of a book I've starting writing. Early days on this one, it's about an elephant called Ettie who lives alone in a zoo but one day two little birds come to visit and soon she is surrounded by little friends. I'm going to try and finish the images for Pete first before I get caught up with something new.

An Idea for the book Goodbye Jimmy Choo

Messing around with type today and that I'd have a crack at a cover. It's quite different from the original, although still featuring wellies!

New handlettered type!

Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2008

If you're in town pop in and take a look. Of the illustration students graduating this year the one that most caught my eye was Emily Sutton but there are other talented individuals lurking on the premises too.

Drawing Children

Animals and children are my favourite subjects. I felt I'd neglected humans recently and it was about time I drew a few.

Creativematch

I've entered my cover for Pete Polar Bear on Creativematch's Flair this month. Check it out here.

Today's offering

I've got some horrible cold bug but I'm at my desk anyway so I thought I'd have a play with my fox characters.

Pete and Karl Koala

Polar Bear Pete first re-done page

Here is the first re-jiggled Pete page with my handlettered text. Hope you like it.

New Pete cover

I'm back working on Pete tweaking images and discarding a few old ones. He's developed a bit since I first started so some of the original sketches no longer fit well with the new bits.

Introducing Stanley...

Now this little fella has been hanging around my sketchbook pages for a long time now, so I thought it was time to commit to him in full colour and give him a name. So here he is.

Foxy Indiana!

I'm off to sunny, sunny (hopefully) France!

Just drawn this to use as my autoresponder- so you'll be seeing this if you email tomorrow as I'm up and away! Back at my desk on June 2nd, have a lovely half term everyone!