Almost Christmas and some sketches!

This is a nice, but also a busy time of the year. Apart from getting ready for Christmas I somehow ended up working on three books at the same time.

I’m working on two board books and one picture book. These books have one thing in common – a deadline for the middle of February.

I’m skipping between these books as I’m waiting for the feedback from publishers. It’s a bit challenging, I must admit. I like working on these titles equally and it’s always hard to leave one book and work on another.Here is a sleeping fish I’ve been working on this week

and a polarbear.

The picture book I mentioned is a classic story “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”. Here is the work in progress.

I’m enjoying illustrating the story very much. The book is for a Korean publisher and I was asked to do the Troll a bit more scary, so this is what I’ve done.

I just hope that it’s not too scary. I’m waiting for feedback as I write.

As I was taking photos for the blog and tiding up my table for Christmas I opened one of my sketchbooks. I got stuck looking at some of the pictures and collages.

I like opening old sketchbooks. Some of the pictures I haven’t seen since I finished them and some of them I haven’t seen for years.

This was a photocopy of my drawing, but water splashed over it and this is what happened. I liked it and put the picture into the sketchbook.

This is also one of my sketches plus some paper samples. It’s a finished picture. “Young Girl, Pig, Cat and UFO”.

One more.

Well, this is it I think. It’s time to leave the work for a bit and start enjoying Christmas!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!