Relaunch

Relabel, retitle, repackage

Re-released in November I think.
Hopefully it will do well again selling to new parents.







For any young people out there -
the metal thing on right of lower picture is a pencil sharpener
- used to sharpen graphite encased in wood-(a 'pencil')
which is used to make marks  on dried wood pulp or 'paper'.

Fathers Day-

Each little mates book I try to do things a bit different or different from the last couple of books at least. Here a re a few pages from the father's day book. Whats different? I think I tried to make it not as dark and not so laboured- bigger simple images. The next book is a christmas special so I guess I'll have to go over the top with that one. hopefully I will have rehabilitated myself back into drawing well by then.(or better).

I'll try to go back to life drawing and get stuck into that I think-the times I've ever improved were when I did intensive life drawing.

Fathers Day cover roughs

Going with the crocodile for the cover I think.

More Mates roughs

I was looking back at the little mates mothers day images- how did I manage to massacre such promising roughs?
But then I need to keep reminding myself  how very little time and money is allocated to them.
3 weeks seems like a long time but not when it comes to doing these it seems.
I think I prefer working in black and white also. I actually prefer the look of these roughs here and below to the coloured 'clean line version'.
I long to do a proper book-
well that ought to be my dinosaur book right now
but these little mates books keep needing to be done and ruining everything .
I'd love to go to that concept design workshop but now it looks like I can't afford the time away.

I might try and apply for an ASA grant to develop my 'shadow king' story. There might be an Australia council grant I could try for.

Oh yes and now it turns out my hands are now infected(on top of my usual hand troubles) and I'll be losing a few fingernails- who knows I might end up being a foot artist after all.
Aint life grand?

Playful Poppy

Not so rough- but not highly polished either. Time is the thing once again,- and although I spent too long- it still wasn't enough, But then I have to get onto my dinosaur book for real now and this poppy book really messed things up.
Oddly though again in the last month I've had difficulty focussing while drawing. But
I'm feeling good and focussed about the dinosaur book so lets hope I can make time over christmas.

A few Images from those books

It would be nice to have the time to do things properly,
it would be nicer still to be paid the proper money to be able to spend the time to do things properly.
I suspect, like the inner health ads I did way back , being forced to do things quick and dirty will haunt me for years (as inner health does even now).
-Unfortunately theres no 'cooling off period' with these- where I can come back and review them and fix the mistakes/polish them- they just get done and I see all that needs fixing later(ie now).
Mainly the whole problem is the multiplier effect of the 24 pages per book- total time for roughs+line drawings+colouring.

Cover where art thou?

A rejected wip for a hero character image-
still with fine lines where I dicked around with the warp tool.
I'll post a couple of things from the current books soonish.