Books

Hi Chaps,

As you may or may not have noticed, I haven't blogged too often in the last month or so.

BUT, now I have something to show of what I've been doing.

I'll spread it over a couple of posts I think.

But, this is from a book I've been working on.

The artwork is delivered, which is v satisfying, and I'm just waiting to see what tweaks they may want.

But here are some sketches from it.

Two versions of a character sketch for the main character. She is naughty and cheeky but likeable.

The doctor.

And Cecily (The main character, gasp, telling secrets here) and her family racing along in the car.

I'll maybe post the final versions of these sketches so you can see them in colour & stuff.

But, more soon :)

Basic Shapes

Hi again chaps.

I wanted to post a couple sketches I did recently of some people I saw in the street.

I noticed both of them because of their silhouettes, I think, because of the simple shapes they break down into.

I haven't done much charicaturing or exaggerating, they pretty much looked like this.

I just thought it was interesting how the little girl is a triangle on a box, with two straight lines underneath, and the lady is basically a triangle and two blocks with a little circle on top.

Breaking down into simple shapes and silhouettes in animation is a fairly major part of creating a character, and similarly is in illustration, and I thought it was interesting how these two people stood out in real life for me because of these characteristics.

Anyway, back to the colouring in.

Burp

Here we are, here's a rough sketch from what I've been working on recently.

A naughty girl, who is nevertheless likeable.

Swoon

Well, after a week away, and a rebuild of my pc, which basically took up just over two weeks in total, I'm ready to post a follow up to my last post about Miss Sampson, the new teacher.

(and yes I did lose stuff in my pc rebuild, annoyingly. Somehow, however methodical I try and be, I always forget something. And all the driver installs for the hardware stuff is always awkward, and I end up spending a morning trying to install the print drivers or something.)

Here is the full finished picture, with swooning little lad, and jealous classmate.

Also, I've posted my original pencil sketches of the lad and the little girl, so you can see how they developed.

Kids

Here we are, I've started doing some sketches of kids.

Just a bunch of characters doing various stuff.

This is the first one, a bit of a shy girl.

I'll post more as I do them

Patiently Explaining

Here's a sketch of a Mum patiently explaining something to a girl.

I think she's just about to break a bit of bad news.

I haven't done the hands yet, I always seem to leave them till last, but I wanted to get it put up.

Maybe I'll do a post of just sketches of hands.

Another Head

Here's another study of a head intended for Picture Book work

Heads Again

A couple more sketches of heads for Picture Book Type work.

These are preliminary drawings for a book idea I'm working on.

Young Girl 2

And another

Young Girl

A more realistic sketch of a little girl's head.

Little Girl In A Picture Book

Picture book style little girl sketches - ie fairly naive.

These are my first ideas trying out the proportions.

She will have arms :)

And these are a few studies of the head.

Again just working on the proportions.

I'll see if I can dig up a few different expressions as well for another post.

Jon