A Bask of Crocodiles

Final piece for the phrase A Bask of Crocodiles, for our Second year collaborative art book.

Second Year Art Book

Pencil drawings to form my final piece for a collaborative second year art book based upon collective nouns for animal groups. The phrase I am illustrating is A Bask of Crocodiles.

Art, Craft and Flower Festival

I displayed these two pieces, as well as The Illustrator as a Phoenix and my Cat and Dog illustration for a children's book cover in my local Art, Craft and Flower Festival and received great feedback from visitors to the exhibition.



Kara the Koala Bear



Bears can swim



Bears are nocturnal




Bears love honey



Bears can fish



Four final double-page spreads for my picture book Kara the Koala Bear. I began by using mixed-media colouring pencils and fine-liner pen. However, I then decided to change medium; drawing the keylines in fine-liner pen, eyes in colouring pencil and then scanning these drawings aswell as different textures into the computer and editing on Photoshop. I feel that combining texture into my illustrations has made the aesthetic more striking, interesting and engaging for children.

Client Visuals

Four double-page spreads from Kara the Koala Bear

Meet Kara the Koala

I created the character of Kara the Koala Bear for a childrens book I was producing to be entered into the Macmillan Picture Book Prize 2012 . Unfortunately I didn't finish my final pieces in time to enter the competition but there is always next year! The story is based around Kara the Koala who thinks she is a bear. Her mum then explains how she is not a bear, but in fact a marsupial.

Branches

Beginnings of a drawing I started during the summer. The Deer's antlers are tree branches, inspired by a postcard my cousin Charlotte sent me when she was travelling in Indian of Tribal Art.