Story for a small boy

I was asked to write and illustrate a book for a small boy - so I did a story featuring his favourite toy cat.  I'm glad to say he liked the book!

Here is one of the spreads.

UBUNTU

Late last year I took part in a group exhibition to raise funds for Breadline Africa, a South Africa-based charity that supports local initiatives by marginalised communities in order to help them to help themselves (their website is www.breadlineafrica.org).  The theme of the exhibition was "Ubuntu", an old African expression with many meanings: respect, helpfulness, sharing, caring, community, trust and unselfishness.

In line with this theme, I wrote and illustrated a children's story about the zoo animals making a trip to Africa, and called it, "Ubuntu, or, We Did It Together".

Here it is:

Children's book

As one of the final assignments in our Illustration course, I did illustrations for Hilaire Belloc's "Jim", which you may know is a poem about a little boy who on a visit to the Zoo, runs away from his nurse and is eaten by a lion.  Here are some of the pages:

 

Story without words

We were to produce a three - page story without words: here it is (with thanks to the model).

postcard to the movies

This project was to produce a postcard referring to a movie - I hope you can recognise the film I am referring to here -

Inspired by Bob Dylan song

We were given an assignment to do an image illustrating a Bob Dylan song - I chose "Shelter from the Storm"

A spoil of cooks

The assignment here was to illustrate a collective noun.  It was great fun to do - and there were lots of other good and witty collective nouns on the list; it might be fun to try illustrating other ones when time permits . . .