I have now progressed to colour all of my characters so that they all follow my basic animal theme and all consist of around 3 colours.
I am basing my work on Chris Houghton. Chris is an illustrator and has created some of my favourite children’s book front covers including Little Owl Lost.
Here are some of his other illustrations:
I love his simplistic designs and small colour schemes. Along with children’s books, he is also interested in Fair trade and non-profitable designs which is really interesting. I have chosen to base my work on his as I feel like I could also make simple designs (I am not the best drawer in the world) and hope they can be as successful as his. I also think that they are pleasing to the eye and work well in children’s books.
Here are my characters:
Manny the Meerkat
Leo the Lion
Ollie the Ostrich
George and Grace the Giraffes
The reason why I have created two of some of them is to show the difference between the original and the simplified illustration. I initially drew all of them on the graphics tablet and then simplified the paths that I had drawn and filled the animals in to get them to where they are now.