Before I moved to Bovey Tracey last year, while we were still living with the Reeve family in Widecombe, Stuart and I made a trip to the town to see the Green Man Festival. It was pretty amazing and I took lots of photos and made a drawing (which you can see here!). This year I was a bona fide Bovey resident and, not only that, but had a studio ( Read more... )

When Stuart and I moved to Bovey Tracey in Devon last year, the moving took so much time that I wasn't able to focus on setting up a good working space. I sort of just threw everything into a room and got on with illustrating two Adventuremice books among the clutter. But when I met up with Susan Bradshaw and Jon Arnold from the Bovey Paradiso art ( Read more... )

Big thanks to journalist Laura White for including our Adventuremice Dartmoor mini tour in The Moorlander newspaper! My co-author Philip Reeve and I visited (and decorated) Astor's Bookshop in Chagford and Gnash Comics in Ashburton, and both should still have some signed copies of Adventuremice: Otter Chaos, if you want to pick them up!


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We've moved! Despite all the massive hills, our town seems to be very, very popular with cyclists, they are everywhere. (Stuart's already keen but I'm not even attempting those hills unless I get an electric bike.)


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Illustrator Steve Anthony has started a new film series called 'Picture Book Club' with writer Fiona Barker, going around to different illustrators studios and interviewing them about a selected book. Here's their video with me, giving a look at my studio, some insight into how I illustrated Grumpycorn, and a step-by-step demonstration of how to ( Read more... )

When the three films of The Lord of the Rings came out, I watched the featurettes obsessively after each one, to see how the enormous teams had crafted the films. Most illustrators work alone in their homes or studios, and the idea of using illustration skills to work together on a massive project like that fascinated me. So of course I came across ( Read more... )

Some Seawigs-themed treasures have been popping up on the Internet! Check out these cheeky rascals from St Peter's Droitwich CofE Academy in Worcestershire:

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Photographer Brian Doben has just provided me with a visual response to people at events who say, 'But you don't actually wear THAT while you're illustrating in the studio... do you?'


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A big highlight of my trip to Alaska this summer was visiting the studio of local Seldovia artist Valisa Higman. I've seen a lot of artist studios, but this has to be one of the most beautiful - and remote!


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Elissa Elwick and I are having a fierce discussion about problematic elements of drawing certain children's book characters.


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