So 2 months have apparently gone by since my last post, SCARY! I have been working so hard on getting things ready for Frankfurt Book Fair that I don't remember what it's like to have a social life. If it wasn't for my good friends at swimming then I don't think I would have spoken to more than 4 people since last month! I think it is all ready now though, so I am sighing a huge sigh of relief and getting ready to draw the last 15 pages of the book (by the end of the month which is a bit tight!).
So anyway.....here is the cover for the first in the LOLLIPOP AND GRANDPA series, written by Penny Harper and illustrated by ME!!!! There will be more coming out in the next year. I can't wait to start on the next one which is set in a swimming pool.
I hate Valentine's Day but had fun creating this image for Paper Tiger despite my bitterness! Always good to do some hand-lettering.
Here is an almost finished page from my latest book with Penelope Harper LOLLIPOP AND GRANDPA GO SWIMMING which is due to be published in June. It is available to pre-order on Amazon, or on Waterstones' website.
Here are my Christmas cards this year. They arrived from the printers last week and they sure are a quality item, so I am only sending them to people who I really like (If anyone is upset by this I will use the excuse that I didn't have your address). I think it will take me until next Christmas to set up my Etsy shop, but next year I am going to order loads and sell them. Hopefully. I keep forgetting the name of the animal on the left but I am told it is a reindeer. I borrowed the squirrel character from a story I wrote about a hedgehog who wants to stay up late in the snow.
Somehow I am still managing to work on other great jobs despite Lollipop and Grandpa taking over my life. Studio One always have lovely work for me, and this is a poster we worked on together recently to encourage people to go down the stairs to their ace shop. It's important to balance my head out with big, bold shapes in addition to drawing characters and trees for months. I am also at some point going to be working with 3 bands soon, and I can't wait for that.
