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  • Illustrating Children’s Books – Part 2

    Yesterday, I showed you how I’d been reading the winning stories from the Welsh Books Council Dahlightful schools writing competition and how I decided how I was going to illustrate each story. Today, in part 2, I’ll show you how I go from a rough sketch to a piece of finished artwork. This Story, by…

  • How to go about illustrating children’s books

    How do you set about illustrating children’s books? Well, in a new series of videos, I’ll show you what goes into my process. Recently, I was asked to illustrate a book of prize-winning short stories, written by children, inspired by the style and themes of Roald Dahl – in the . Illustrating a single story involves…

  • Draw a penguin for #PenguinDay !

    It’s Penguin Day today – Twitter is a little mad with the #PenguinDay hashtag! I did my first penguin video in 2010! I’ve been doing videos on YouTube for some time, so this is a bit of a classic, from before I knew how to edit! Why not celebrate and think of penguins and while…