New Picture Book Brewing

In order not to give too much away, I’m calling my characters A, B and C. They’re not your usual characters and came about by turning a story on its head and looking at it from a different angle – do I have your interest? I hope so, because I’m very excited about this story. As in many picture books it’s written to entertain the adult reader as well as the child it’s being read to, because that is the joy of a good picture book, to entertain multiple age groups.

So what is the hold up with this book? Well as the characters are quite unusual, they’re also putting up some opposition when trying to get the right look for them, and as for characters 1 and 2, they’re proving even harder to pin down into an illustration. Character 3 is a lot easier to draw, and 3 is all ready, and getting impatient with the rest of the cast of the book.

So how are they progressing? There are sketches, many, many sketches, and some of them might even go for a walk through the paint box, next they’ll have a lie down in the scanner, well they would, if the scanner was working… once scanned they can be formatted together with the text to work their magic, words and pictures in perfect harmony, creating a picture book.



So off I tootle to get on with the illustrations.

Meanwhile, there’s a book sale going on in my bookshop, so please pop along for a browse.