Marley's World

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

All 7 books are now uploaded to print, at last! Hopefully in about 3 weeks time I will have all the boxsets ready to sell-whoopeeeeee!!
I have more stickers being printed to go with the world map posters I had made, these will be sold alongside the boxsets. I can't wait :)

Thursday, 2 April 2015

Wow hello world!! It's been a loooooooong time since I even LOOKED at this blog!! Been away for a while popping out babies, going back to work... Etc etc. BUT!!!! Marley's World is in the process of being printed!!! YAY!!!

Back in 2010 I started designing the dinosaurs for Marley's Dinosaur World... I got about half way through and had to stop-I was about 6-7 months pregnant and sooooo fatty fatty that it hurt to lean across a table to draw :/ Then nothing got done for ages-you know, with having a tiny person taking up all your time!! ;)

Last year I FINALLY started it all up again, fully edited ALL the pages-had a proof reader check them all over- then edited the pages again... And again... Ahhhhhhhh... Until finally I found a company to print them with!! Waaa hoooo!!

So all the previous images on the blog-the texts have all changed now... Ignore them, haha!!

Thursday, 7 June 2012

Competition time!!! Illustration Gems Hand-painted vinyl wall stickers has reached 500 likes on my page!! So, so happy so wanted to run a small comp to win a sticker of a character/design/animal of your choice!! The vinyl will be approx A4 sized. No cash alternatives. Winner will be announced on this blog AND on my FB page and will have 48 hours from the time I announce them to reply to me with what they would like painted. If I don't hear from you, another winner will be drawn.

Just comment below this post with your answer and a contact email. The winner will be drawn at random on the closing date...This will be 20th June 2012 (my birthday!!)

To enter comment below with your favourite cartoon character and why :) Simples! Don't forget your email!!

Go!!

Ok, so I've been away for a LOOOOOONG time due to other commitments (my ikkle home run business of hand-painted vinyl wall stickers!) So Marley is waiting til I get some spare time to sketch more dinos!!

www.facebook.com/illustrationgems is my FB page...to which I'm setting up a competition from- Using Marley's blog to run it (Have to keep the Zuckerberg happy by not breaking FB comp rules! ) Next post will be the comp :) x

Friday, 14 October 2011

Character Development!!

First I had to sort out what animals I was putting into each book, and it wasn't easy! Africa, for example, it was very hard to narrow the animals down as there are SO many!! But some, like the meerkat and ostrich, just didn't make the cut! There were over 80 animals that I had to design and it took over 2 months!!

Here are some of the developmental sketches...Once I had the general look of the first few animals down, it became quite easy after that!

ZEBRA-this one took a few sketches to get right as I just wasn't happy! It wasn't coming out cute enough!

LIONS-I was happy with my first sketch for the Lion! Just had to change it slightly to make it male.

KOALA-This one took 3 sketches to get it right-it's head kept looking too fat!

CHEETAH-developed pretty much straight away from first sketch! Had to put it in motion in the book being that it's the fastest land mammal but I just really loved this sketch!!

Marley Development!!

So, this is my cat Marley, he was my mountain lion-he was HUGE!! Unfortunately I had to give him up when our landlord back in Cambridge caught me with him :(

But before that, I was bored one day so turned him into a cartoon!!

Initial ideas for creating Marley...As you can see they didn't all start out as cute!!

I liked the sketch top right to start with, but then decided it looked too kitten-like and kind of bug-eyed, like E.T with cat ears!! Bottom middle sketch was showing more potential...