The Famous Two

I finally had the chance to do some personal work this week, which makes me very happy!

This Illustration shows one of my big sisters and I when we were little playing in the garden. Rhian's favorite game was to play "The Famous Five" and go on adventures. Which mostly consisted of sending me into the scary garden next door to fetch an item she would have thrown into the undergrowth and try to run back without being caught by the yappy dog!

I was more of the dressing up playing with dolls type, so I was less than impressed...

Lots more updates coming soon, including "1000 Stickers for Girls" for Usborne Publishing and a couple of books for Parragon Books too!

Fancy a spot of cake? BBC Children In Need 2011

This Autumn I have been working with Independents United, The BBC and Paypal to create this great Facebook app for BBC Children in Need. The aim of the app is to create the worlds biggest digital cake! Facebook users can donate to Children In Need by purchasing a layer of cake, some icing, filling, pillars etc or buy creating their very own cake to add to the tower. It's a fun and easy way to donate to a worthy charity.

Below is just a small selection of the cakes, layers and other elements that I illustrated for this project...

Cakes that represent BBC shows will also be added to the cake as it grows.

Cake Layers..
Pillars..
Reference points will show how tall the cake is getting, starting with a man and growing all the way up to a satellite out in space!

CLICK HERE to view the Facebook app and donate to Children In Need.

Christmas Pocket Doodling and Colouring Book

Christmas is drawing nearer and nearer (82 days to be exact.. but who's counting?!) So why not check out this lovely Christmas pocket doodling and colouring book from Usborne that I had the pleasure of illustrating a few spreads for. The book is jam packed with lovely festive doodles and colouring spreads illustrated by Emily Beevers, Caroline Day, Antonia Miller and Myself.

Above cover designed by Erica Harrison.

Below are some sneaky peaks of my doodles from within the book...

RedPlayer

I recently created some character designs and various props with Blue-Zoo animation studio, for a short animation to market Red Bee Media's new online video platform RedPlayer.

Here are the Characters, buildings and bits that I designed for the animation.

.. and here is the super cute video, fantastically animated by Blue-Zoo animation studio.

RedPlayer from Blue Zoo on Vimeo.

Blue Zoo:

Director: Damian Hook

Art Director: Max Taylor

Storybord: Pete Western

Character Design: Lauren Ellis

Rigging: Alessio Nitti

Modelling and Texturing: Paul Mitcheson

Animation: Dan Edgley, Mike Wyatt and Lizzie Hicks

Compositing: Dave Hunt and Damian Hook

Red Bee:

Creative Producer: Joe Lee

Producer: Nicole Coleman

1000 Fairy stickers

1000 Fairy Stickers is now available to buy online and in lots of lovely book shops!

Cover designed by Stella Baggott

This book is jam packed with stickers to place on the spreads within the book or wherever else the reader chooses to stick them! There are also some lovely label stickers to place on envelopes and presents! I illustrated this book along with the super Usborne illustrator Stella Baggott.

Here is a sneaky peak at a small selection of my spreads and stickers from within the book:

An example of how the stickers can be placed on my autumn scene.

A few of my other spreads and corresponding stickers.

...and here are some of the extra stickers i've illustrated.

More spreads and stickers of mine include a princess castle and a masked ball, to see these and Stella Baggott's lovely illustrations, grab a copy of '1000 Fairy stickers'!

The Usborne Boys' Activity Book.

Here is the sneaky peak of The Usborne Boys' Activity Book on sale now!

Above cover designed by Erica Harrison.

Below are some of the spreads that I illustrated for this book...

Dinosaur Land sticker spread.

Dinosaur stickers.
Treasure Hunt sticker spread.
Space sticker spread.
Treasure Hunt, Space Walk and Ancient Egypt stickers.
Time Travel spread.
Robots spread.

Usborne's "1000 Fairy Stickers" Illustrated by Stella Baggott and myself will be out on the 1st of September so keep your eyes peeled for an update soon!

The Usborne Girls' Activity Book.

Finally! The time has come, the first books I have had the pleasure of creating some illustration and design for are now available to buy in shops and online as of Monday 1st August. The books I am referring to are The Usborne Girls' and Boys' Activity Books.

These books include games and puzzles, yummy recipes, doodle pages and 200 fun stickers illustrated by me!

With illustration and design by Erica Harrison, Katie Lovell, Caroline Day, Emily Beevers, Antonia Miller, Jan McCafferty and myself. Written by Lucy Bowman, Rebecca Gilpin, James Maclaine and Louie Stowell.

Above cover design by Erica Harrison

I have so far only managed to get my hands on a copy of the Girls' book, so here is a sneaky peak of some of the illustrated sticker pages I have created for the Girls' book..

Fairy Woodland sticker spread.

Fairy Woodland stickers to stick on to the spread!
Penguin sticker spread.
Penguin stickers.
Build your own cupcake spread, stick on cupcake, then cupcake case, then ice and decorate!
Haunted house spread. Stick on lots of cute spooky ghosts!
Summer Garden spread. Stick on lots of cute bugs!
Cupcake, ghost and bug stickers.

My illustrations also pop up throughout the book on various puzzle and activity pages including some spy girls, doodled hearts and flowers and a yummy chocolate recipe!

A sneaky peak of the Boys' Activity Book will be coming soon...