Just before Christmas I completed my first children's book for MacMillan. Its a book series called Quentin Quirk's Magic Works and the first book is called 'Attack of the Bum-Biting Sharks'.
The two main characters are Jez and Charlie, 10 year old boys who hate Jez' evil teenage older sister Francesca, they would do anything to make her life miserable. So after stumbling upon an old Magic shop owned by the rather eccentric 183 year old Quentin Quirk. The boys buy a tiny bottle of Liquid Frighteners from the strange, grumpy old git thus creating tiny Bum-Biting Sharks. The Sharks get out into the towns waterworks and things get a bit out of hand.
I'll post a few different images this first one is the first time the boys walk into the secret Magic Works where Quirks potions are created. It was illustrated in Ink, the restriction of Black and White and no Grayscale made me really re-structure the way I normally work, using different cross hatching styles to represent colours.
The book will be printed this year sometime.
No comments:
Post a Comment