Some new sketchbooky bits...

555 Sticker Fun Princess Palace

Here is the third book I illustrated for TopThat! Publishing's lovely 555 Sticker Fun series. Here are just some of the illustrations I created for 555 Sticker Fun Princess Palace out on 1st Feb.

Spreads with stickers in place... 

Images copyright TopThat! Publishing 2014

555 Sticker Fun Mermaid World

TopThat! Publishing kindly asked me to illustrate three more books in their fab 555 Sticker Fun series. Here are just some of the illustrations I created for 555 Sticker Fun Mermaid World out on 1st Feb.

Spreads with stickers in place... 

Images copyright TopThat! Publishing 2014

Dance dance dance

More character practice...

American Girl Picture Yourself Here

The latest book I have illustrated is this super fun book for American Girl entitled 'Picture Yourself Here' by Kristi Thom, Art Direction and Design by Gretchen Becker. American Girl are one of my favourite companies to work with and I had so much fun illustrating this book and now using it too! 

Picture Yourself Here is a mixture of punch-out illustrations and scenes to stick your own photo's in. Once you have created all of the silly scenes it makes a lovely book to keep as a fun photo album!

I couldn't resist having a go at putting some of my own photo's into this scene...

Some of the punch-outs.

A scene with punch-outs in place.

A sneaky peek at some of the spreads...

It is available to buy from American Girl's website here or from Amazon here.

An experiment in Black and White

I have been attending a great children's book writing course this past year, (the tutor is wonderfully funny writer Lou Kuenzler) and have been thinking recently how I would really like to illustrate some young fiction titles.

Here is an image I have been experimenting on in this style...

New look website!

My website has been in need of a revamp for a little while. I finally got around to updating it this weekend...

I would be delighted if you would pop over and have a look ^_^ laurenade.com