Concept Art

A little concept art for a story I've been working on "Stanleys New Sleihj'. Here's Stanley in his Rabbit Hole, racing to use his new sleigh on the freshly fallen snow.

Boating Otters

Well the summer seems to be (almost) upon us, and this little family of otters have took to the waters on a little holiday. Only problem is, they don't know what to call their boat! Can you help them?

Time Lapse Art Video

I decided to do a time laps video, so people could see the different stages of my painting, so here it is! Enjoy :)

Week 3 #drawingaweek2015

The Recycled Village

Here the tale of Mr Squirrel and Little Mouse continues...

After working all through the night, they were excited to take the recycled house to Mr Squirrel  who must be so very cold right now!

When he opened the gift, he couldn't believe his eyes. His very own home. Mr Squirrel couldn't thank Little Mouse enough.

Mr Squirrel lit the fire and snuggled up with his favourite book, he couldn't remember the last time he felt so toasty and warm.

There was a knock at the door. Little Mouse had come to visit. He had brought a box full of lovely christmas decorations.

Together they began to decorate Mr Squirrels new home.

The house looked splendid, so very christmassy. They decided to write out christmas cards to all of their woodland friends.

They set out to deliver them all...

But when they got to their friends, they found that their homes had been chopped down too. Mr Squirrel and Little Mouse couldn't believe it; but they had an idea...

The woodland creatures were a little confused. What on earth where they going to do with all the rubbish that Mr Squirrel and Little Mouse had forraged?

But as they set to work it soon became clear...

With all the unwanted things that people had thrown away, they made their very own recycled village. Each little woodland creature who had lost their home, now had a new, very unique little recycled house of their own.

Illo_advent 'Mr Squirrel and Little Mouse'

Each day up until the 25th I've been joining in with illo_advent. I thought I'd use each day to build a story. Here's the story so far…

Mr Squirrel came home from foraging nuts one day to find a man had cut down his home.

He didn't know what to do.

Little mouse saw Mr Squirrel left out in the cold, so gave him a woolly hat and scarf to warm him up.

But Little mouse wanted to help poor Mr Squirrel some more, so off he went.

So he rummaged through bins to see if there was anything he could use

He worked through the night  

Mrs Mouse saw Little Mouse working out in the cold, so brought him a cup of hot chocolate.

She offered to help Little Mouse.

Meanwhile, poor Mr Squirrel was sleeping in the snow.

To be continued...

From pencil to paint

Dinosaurs Swinging

Sketching is so important when designing. The more you sketch, the more things change, they sometimes become what you didn't originally anticipate. Being an illustrator, a lot of time is spent indoors, by myself, with only the radio for company. The glorious part of sketching is that it's so mobile, you can do it anywhere. The world is your studio!