I’ve been working on many new creatures and characters of late. Here’s a little bird (possibly a pigeon) called Birdy, although that name may change…
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Panda! Go Panda! Go Panda!
Panda! Go Panda! is massive with the little one in our house (and the big ones, actually). If you’ve not seen it, it’s one of the first things Miyazaki and Takahata of Studio Ghibli did together.
It’s bonkers and quite wonderful in equal measures, and has very nice bamboo.
Any way, because we like it, I painted the big Panda as a present for my niece. I also then had to paint one for my own daughter. And so, we have multiple Pandas. Here they are…
Old Fossils Retirement Home
I was asked to do something with the wonderful Gary Northfield for our local Crystal Palace magazine, called the Transmitter. Of course, we couldn’t say ‘no’, as we love them so!
So… taking the Palace’s dinosaur pedigree, and Gary’s skill at drawing them, we came up with the Old Fossils Retirement Home comic. Here’s the first panel, and to read the rest you’ll have to get yourselves down to South London in about a month’s time and find a copy. The Bookseller Crow independent bookshop always has them on display!
click image to see it bigger!
Something I’ve been working on…
The Alien Moon book trailer
And here it is! What the world’s been waiting for…
Yetis on the moon.
A Yeti in Crystal Palace Park
If you have a yeti, and you have snow in Crystal Palace Park, then you have to make use of them!
Besides, it’ll be great material for the Alien Moon trailer…
International Book Giving Day
This is a lovely thing, taking place on February 14th.
I’ve seen that Viv Schwarz and Clara Vulliamy have made lovely book plates to stick inside the book you donate – so I thought I’d do the same!
There are also some great ideas for book giving over on the Playing By The Book blog!
Here’s Harold the Hamster, being all giving. Click on him for a hi-res version!
UPDATE: And now you can also download with a dedication and border. Click for biggie!
A clever little Scottie Dog
Like most writers and illustrators, I’m always thinking of the next project – the lot of a freelancer eh?. And probably like most writers and illustrators, I’m working on three new projects at once. They’re all at different stages in their evolution: one’s a synopsis with a blossoming set of characters, one’s had three different treatments already (!?!), and the other is three chapters written.
I like to keep on my toes.
Any way, here’s a new character from one of the projects. I’ve always wanted to draw a Scottie Dog, and here it is.