The first contact from OUP wanted me to illustrate a book cover for a new children's story coming out soon. This was super exciting and I got straight to work, they sent through a transcript so that I could get a feel for the characters and so on. I worked on various designs which went back and forth over the coming weeks. Eventually I sent through what was to be the final draft for concept before I went in with the final artwork. Below is my final draft design for the book "Grizzly Dadams".
This project unfortunately ended for me at this point as they went with another illustrator who had already worked with the writer before. This totally made sense and they were super gutted that they could not continue working with my illustrations - I felt the same, none the less they are super awesome people and I hope to work with them again!
I learned a lot about my style during this project, my typography and characterization got a lot stronger and really played to the style of the book. A great experience!
