In the Studio
March 2024
The new year is moving fast! This year I am taking Talking Animals more into the story realm. That means in the studio lately I have been writing and illustrating books to come out later this year. Catworld is the main book project I am working on at the moment. It is a story about the relationship between a cat and their person. In the tradition of wordless books and comics, my influences have been Raymond Briggs, Roald Dahl and Maurice Sendak.
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Also in the studio I have been continuing work from SVS Learn - storybook course that I did last year. Here are some of the illustrations I completed for a re-tell of Little Red Riding Hood:
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While Catworld comes alive, I have been doing some small challenges, about cats of course!
I ended 2023 with a draw 100 cats challenge - and it was too easy! Seriously though drawing cats is one of my favourite things to draw. After completing that challenge I moved on to created some cartoon sketches. Then to challenge myself even further I decided to draw every breed of cat. This has been taking a bit longer.... But all the main faces, and eyes have been done. Now just for the details. Experimenting with line work also. Who knew there were so many cat breeds!
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Above left to right - a sample of the 100 cats; a cartoon sketch and one of the breeds with line work I am experimenting with.
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