Little Bit Bunny - Badger

Well, it's a new month, and a new theme on the Little Bit Bunny Blog, and I've just put up this months post, and it's got a bit of colour this time.

You can find it here - LittleBitBunny

And yep, does look like this is where I'm headed.

I've still very much got a fringe, though, but the sides of it now have to cover more ground than they used to :)

But here's the initial sketch I did when I first got the idea.

As you can see, it didn't really change much from here, just redrew it, and had the idea of it being a sort of diagram in a guide.

I think this guy looks like an English Teacher.

Maybe he'll turn up in something else.

2012 UKLA Book Awards Longlist

The Longlist for the 2012 UKLA Book Awards was announced a day or two ago. Some top names in there, and a bunch of really good illustrators too.

Like Emily Gravett, Oliver Jeffers, Viviane Schwartz, Catherine Rayner, Chris Haughton are a bunch who I really rate.

I shall have to check out any of the others I'm not so familiar with.

Here's a link. - http://bit.ly/oZqBnJ

Good luck chaps

A Little Bit Bunny

I have been asked to contribute to the A Little Bit Bunny Blog, here - http://alittlebitbunny.blogspot.com/

Which is fabulous, and I'm really looking forward to it.

The blog is run by an impressive bunch of chaps - Damon O'Keefe, Eric Barclay, Chris Kennett, Matt Dawson, Kev Levell, froggie, Mr Toodle, Matt Soffe, and is themed to a different animal each month.

There's been some really good stuff posted, so I'm really chuffed to be invited to contribute.

I've been a bit slow off the mark, so am only just posting my first entry for October now.

But you can find it here, and it's for the theme of Dragons.

http://alittlebitbunny.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-find-cigars-and-pipes-really-arent.html

Do pop over and have a look.

Cozy Bears

I haven't posted in a while, I've been busy, which is good I suppose.

Dealing with Bears, a bulbous blue monster, kids, and a wolf.

But I shall post some bits of these, so you can have a bit of a look.

So, here we are, some cozy bears from a book I am working on.

These are initial sketches, and have changed through the development.

A Bunch of Bears

Here we are. Here are the bears of which I was speaking in my last post.

I've been doing some greeting card ideas featuring smiling and snuggly bears, and I'm also working on an idea for a book, which is basically all about bears doing things.

So, consequently, I'm doing lots of sketches of bears.

I don't think I've drawn anything else for the past week, actually.

But that's ok. I like drawing bears, and I feel I'm really getting to know them.

Some of these are a bit rougher than others.

Jungle Shorts

Hi again chaps.

Following on from the last few posts, here's another bit of work done recently.

This is the sketch stage of the cover for a book about a boy who's Mum buys him embarrassing Jungle patterned shorts to play football in. (I only put the pattern in with the colour though)

It was quite a nice tight brief for what was they wanted included image-wise, which I often quite like. Sometimes if it's left a bit open I get options paralysis, but if some constraints are put on, I can get something out nice and quick.

So it was a nice job to do.

In other news, I've decided to do some ideas for some greeting type cards.

At the moment I'm planning on these being based around bears

(Lot of bears in my work at the mo, and more coming up, so I'll be getting a lot of practise.)

But I'll put up some of the bear sketches soon.

Baby Milk Bear

Hiya chaps,

On a bit of a roll with the posts here.

This is another bit of work I've done fairly recently.

It's a cuddly bear for the label on some baby mik.

The agency already had the pack designed, and a rough of the bear, and my task was to draw a nice cuddly bear, that had the head and paws etc in the same place as their rough, but that looked natural, and not like a hunchback. Cos it's head was over to one side, in order for it to fit in next to the logo.

So I thought of it as a bear reaching up to be picked up, and in that pose the head and everything was in the right place, but he looked nice and natural, and his face and paws weren't obscured by and of the design elements.

But it was a fun quick job to do, and quite a nice interesting problem to solve.