Ok thats it, this is the last picture! Chelsea gardens are massive and full of massive old glass houses filled up with flowers and tropical plants. I wanted the flowers in my poster to resemble fireworks exploding out of the ground.

Ok well i was at it i thought i'd upload this again! I did some fiddling and managed to lighten up a bit and i think it looks much better now.

I did this picture while waiting for the printer to print out my work - thats how long it took! It took about 1 hour to print each picture and there were a lot of pictures!

This is a cover i've been working on for a while and its finally finished!! there's nothing like a crazily stressful deadline to make you get things done! I originally started working on this for the Penguin Design Award whose deadline was in the middle of the easter holidays. Its a pretty hard book to illustrate as every idea i had for it seemed to have already been done by LOTS of other people but i'm pretty pleased with how it came out. 

The last couple of weeks have been horribly stressful trying to get everything ready for New york but its all finally done! I'm in the midst of packing up my stuff to take with me and i'll quickly upload all my most recent work!

Finished my next picture! I really enjoyed drawing the animals, it made such a change from drawing people all the time! Also hand rendered text is a new thing for me but was really fun to try:) Now off for a celebratory cup of tea and a brownie.

Also just an added note about that picture: thats not actually how it looks on photoshop! blogspot has done something weird and made it all dark and gloomy when infact its really bright.. Just imagine that the greens are grass greens rather than sludge colour and thats about right.

This is the last Journey to the Riversea picture. I don't think its quite finished yet. I was spending ages fiddling around with the colour and it wasn't making much of a difference so now I'm just going to leave it for a bit and get on with something else!