Making of Pearl and Her Bunch - Part Two

Illustrating Pearl

I LOVE sharing my “behind the scene” stuff! In the previous newsletter, I touched on writing Pearl and Her Bunch (Orchard Books). In this one, I’m going to share visual side of my process behind this book. Read on if you’re interested.

Character Design

Anthropomorphised food is my comfort zone and my style is quite simple so designing the characters for this book was pretty straightforward. Having said that, I was quite shocked when I dug out the initial character samples from my archive. How different they looked to the final designs!