More Illustration

Originally a freelance graphic designer, I am more interested in illustration these days, especially children's book illustration. Here are some samples. More to come when I get round to it...

Watercolour illustration of wooden shack in New Zealand

This watercolour painting of Carol and James' house in New Zealand appeared in the blog. It looks idyllic and it was.

vector illustration showing cyclists of all different types

This vector illustration was for Cambridge cycle training company Outspoken.

Flat colour children's book illustration

Illustration from my children's book Frank's Tall Story, which is still in progress. Inked on paper, coloured in Photoshop.

Children's book illustration of a fat man and his fat dog

This was my first and only picture for a very un-PC story about a family of fat people and their pets. It hasn't got off the ground yet.

Illustration of a classroom full of children

A cover illustration for an educational software catalogue. The kids had to be shown doing something from every subject in the curriculum.

Watercolor picture of a chinese riverside market

This should have made it to the blog, but didn't. It's a small riverside market in Guilin, China, painted on a sweltering day while I waited for Caz, who'd gone off to look at some stalactites.

children's book illustration of a character painting an apple green

Blimey, this is an old one. When I was studying graphic design I wrote a children's story about little characters whose job is to paint things the colour they are. Well, one day the green character goes missing and... well, I think you can guess the rest. This is one of the pictures — gouache I think.

Cover for BBC Numeracy software - nursery rhyme characters

A cover for some software to accompany the BBC's children's series. It used scenarios involving nursery rhyme characters to teach numeracy.

Saluki Jude in watercolour

This is Caz's saluki Jude, the same dog I drew on the first page of my blogshank diary.

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