countryside

Its days like today were I wish I was biking through the countryside.

The Royal Wedding

I can't help but get a little caught up in all the hype about William and Kate's wedding and I wish them the best of luck tomorrow.

Bicycle

Happy Easter

I'm rather late with any the easter wishes and related imagery, but due to the amazing weather I couldn't help but to sit outside, product of which is this quite detailed (yet crude at the same time) map of my garden. Which I then made into a treasure map easter egg hunt along side rhyming riddles for my nephew and nieces. Kept them amused for quite a few hours.

Birds to bird houses

It was such a lovely weekend, that I decided from drawing birds last week I would jazz these bird boxes up a bit. Not sure what the birds will think of them though.

Beat that..! (duet)

Fish, Flowers and....Insects

Its been long since my last blog entry, so here we go. last week since finishing my picture book Chickens Can't See In The Dark for OUP, I have been alas getting on and writing my second book. Yet on the side I've set myself a little project to do some more serious grown up work, ( a break from trumpet playing hares and grumpy bears).

First Plant!

I have no idea what type of plant this is, but in my excitement of it being the first plant in my room I thought I'd need to share this with you, in a drawing medium obviously. Its pretty ace and matches the unintentional red/orangey theme I seem to have going on in my office area at the moment.

Happy Month Of March!

Resolutions

so for this weeks Illustration friday- Resolutions I've gone down the route of instruments and maybe learning how to play something before getting older.

Mail

Here's a sketch a did a while back but thought appropriate for this weeks word.

Snow= Snowman Times

So when it snows this much, I couldn't miss the opportunity to make a good snowman. With the aid of someone who is over 6 foot this beast of a snowman has come to life.

Owls owls owls!!!

Fennec

So I've recently discovered a real love for fennecs, and here's my first and hopefully not the last drawing of a fennec. I'm there's a story to come of of this.

A Morning Painting

So this morn I woke up with an urge to paint, he is a lion looking pretty proud of himself...
a rather large red dog. With a bow tie and glasses of course and....
a fox on a bicycle. I have no use for them at the moment but I'm sure they could inspire some book characters. Enjoy!

West Bow

I've been missing a bit of Edinburgh lately and I drew this a few weeks ago, so here we go.

Transportation

I'm back and with a quick brand new illo for this weeks Illustration word. Saw this old cracked water tank whilst I was away on holiday and thought it had to be used for something... possibly a form of transport or hide away for monsters. Monsters are not something I usually draw but it was actually quite fun. Hope you like!

Feeling Bookish

Hello, it's been quite a while since my last blogging session, but here we go. I'll start with some exciting news. My "Feeling Bookish entry" will be featuring in the forthcoming 7th edition of Uppercase, which is one of these below! I will post more photo's once I have a copy.
The magazine is widely available all over the US and Canada and Europe, and in Magma Books and Pedlars in the Uk. But can also be purchased online!!! and here's a little money saving tip, if you enter the code "bookish" you will get 10% of your order.

Chairs, Chairs, Chairs!!!!

A little pattern of chairs which i hope to do something with.

Flint's restyling

Reworking some old ideas and restyling Flint into a tad more dapper style fox. This is one of my ideas so far. He's possibly missing a little something, but it's coming along. By the way I'm not proud of the photoshop grass- for the purpose of a rough only!