Animal Alphabets F for Faun

I'm partaking in #Animal Alphabets challenge on Twitter to practice my digital painting. I'm a little late to the party as they’re now on F, but better late than never. I'm trying to develop a softer children’s publishing friendly illustration method. I'll be trying to do one each week. You can follow my progress here! 

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Soreen Squidgy Fun new activity cards

The penultimate set of Soreen Squidgy Fun activity cards will be available to download this month. As I've said before if you have a young family this is a great resource for you and it's free. Once you've tried it you should let Soreen know what a great idea it was and that they should produce some more, providing they hire the same illustrator again. That's the important part. Without the same illustrator it's a deal breaker! Got it? Good!

Here are a few small snippets from the upcoming activities.

I am currently available for commission so get in touch if you have a project you'd like me to work on. If you want to keep up to date with what I'm working on you can bookmark or subscribe to this blog, follow me on Twitter, or connect to me on Linkedin.

Time management

I would love to talk about how productive I've been this week but it's Christmas and like everyone else I've been sitting on my backside consuming my own body weight in food, and drinking my fair share of alcoholic beverages. I did however find the time in my not so busy holiday schedule to sit down and do a timetable. "Why" I hear you ask. "Surely it's a pointless exercise in procrastination." Well... yes, I guess it is so why the hell would I waste my time like this? There is some solid reasoning beyond not wanting to do any work at Christmas. For me it acts as a visual kick up the bum. January is really busy for me and I can't afford to switch off, not even for a day otherwise I'll be facing one of those 24 hour marathons to meet the deadline. Insert Danny Glover Lethal Weapon quote here.

If you're wondering about the cartoon I thought I'd be fun to add a illustrated element to the post. An illustration blog which is just type would be like a burger restaurant without burgers. Madness!

Click on the image for a closer look!

The Rubber Bandy 3

The last of the Rubber Bandy commissions for now. They should be back later on in the year. I hope so! They were fun.