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Didn't totally waste the summer, I drew these two

I was at a school yesterday as they celebrated World Book Day and one of the kids dressed up as Pug from Salty Dogs. I didn't get a photo of him wearing the headpiece, but here it is in all its glory 👏 #woofwoofwoof

Here's another promo piece I did for OUP of the Ice Queen reading tales of winter to the icicle folk.

Speaking of the tower, SFMF is the only book I've done with a page rotation as that was the only way to fit it in! I spent too long on this spread, but it was one of those pieces you finish and feel like you've levelled up.

Still think this is my favourite bit. It's a huge decision for them.

I had the idea of this LOTR pastiche for the first SHMF book but threw it out as I wanted the heroes to appear reluctant in that one. I found a home for it in SFMF, which also saw the debut of Gnomedalf who appears in the fiction titles too.

The Ice Queen took a lot of figuring out design-wise until I finally settled on a kind of glam-rock look for her. This was a not-quite-final version just before the one in the prologue, where she had a different robe, staff, and just one snowman underling (with Fez).

Hoarse Butterfly Horse is a good joke that most 4 or 5 year olds probably skipped over and that's fine when there's so much stuff to look at. The challenge with this book premise was trying to convince kids that snow = BAD, not good!

[TBC...]

Just adding snow to the Super Happy Magic Forest was honestly a very easy way of creating material. I think this was a piece from the pitch I sent to @Peter_Marley_ . I Just had to figure out why it was snowing in a place that's usually always so warm and sunny!

SFMF was published in 2018 by @OxfordChildrens and
I think it might be my favourite of the three picturebooks, at least visually. The winter theme was so fun to work with and I felt I could really push the characters and setting as it was mostly based in one particular region.