Mum and baby

Babies!

My friend has just had a baby girl! So this is a hello babies card!

And where there's a baby card, surely a baby pattern must follow...

Oh, babies, look at you!

More flower sniffing!

Bouquet

Online Shop!

I have opened an online shop to sell cards made from my illustrations!! I am very excited, it's been a long time coming... 

SO: Feeling your correspondence of late has lacked cats in zoot suits, apes in drag and birds playing brass instruments? Feel this no longer! Please head on over to my:

SHOP

Thank you for looking! 

Benji Bear's Busy Day

I received my copies of Benji Bear's Busy Day yesterday! It's a board and clock book that I illustrated for Campbell Books, and is my first novelty book that has published in the UK. 

It's a lovely big board book with two flaps on every page as well as a big yellow clock which makes very satisfying clicks when you move the handles.

Here's a short video which Campbell made to show a couple of the spreads:

And here I am interacting with some of my favourites!

It's a beautifully produced book for young children who are learning about the time; there are lots of details to spot, and hopefully it will give a lot of pleasure.

It's available in bookshops now!

Character designs...

I'm working on new characters for a book... most of them won't have big roles, but they're lovely to draw! WISH I was better about practising the guitar! Going to get better, starting... now!

Tralalire poster

Pouët Pouët, Cacahouète and Patatras in large format!

Olive telling secrets in Korean!

This arrived in the post on Saturday - I love the typeface and how the designer has used the same patterns. Olive is ever so good at speaking Korean.

Picture This... at Foyles Cafe

From the 2nd to the 30th of May there will be an illustration from my upcoming book, Olive and the Bad Mood, hanging in the cafe at Foyles Charing Cross. This is as part of an exhibition, Picture This..., showcasing Templar's new picture books, which should be altogether lovely. If you are passing, please pop in to have a look! 

My new Olive book is publishing on the 1st of June. I will write more about her nearer the time; I'm starting to get really excited! 

May Tralalire

I've had some cards made to go out with review copies of my new book, which is coming out soon... here they are! More on this nearer the time! 

Explorer sketches

Singer

I'm thinking of characters for a story. This is Pegasus, he used to be in a boy band, 

but now he's gone solo!

Doggies

Princess Ermintrude

It's hard being a princess stoat! 

More kids

Warm up drawings - I want to draw some kid characters, and keep the line loose and jolly. 

Tralalire April

Here are my spreads from the April issue of Tralalire. I enjoyed drawing the characters playing with their egg...

Girls

Camouflage Jaguar

Another detail from the Belgian animal dictionary - a jaguar camouflaging himself!

Parrot pattern