Love it when a package arrives you weren't expecting!!
The next two books in the 'All Star Cheerleaders' series by Anastasia Suen, published by Kane Miller.
http://www.myubam.com/ecommerce/Details.asp?ID=111768 Don't you love the colours the cover designer used? These are such fun stories ... I gave the first book to my little twin girl cousins and they devoured it, even though they are not into cheerleading. Testament to Anastasia's brilliant writing. She nails this age group on the head.
Well, one more to illustrate in this series ...
give us a 'C' - give us 'H' ... etc etc etc.
Toodles!
Hazel
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Toodles!
Hazel
It's very exciting to have 'Tick Tock Taylor' almost on the bookshelves!
This is the chapter book I have been illustrating for Kane and Miller Publishing, author Anastasia Suen and have been BUSTING to tell you about.
Here's the cover ...
This is the first in a series of 4 in the All Star Cheerleaders series and each one will feature a different member of the squad. I loved illustrating Anastasia's work. The inside illustrations are black and white, with tints added in photoshop. The ink work is done with dipping pen - which can lead to some big blots (so you have to start again), but gives a lively and varied line, because once it is done, it is DONE and there is no changing it. Well, except in photoshop of course. I love working in this loose, fun style and although drawing cheerleaders was a challenge at first (being English I know very little about the cheerleading world) I soon got into the swing of it.
Here are a couple of examples of the interior illustrations.
So if you have any little cheerleaders, or wannabee cheerleaders in your life, this is the series for them!
I hope to meet up with Anastasia at ALA next year to promote the books.
I will be starting on number two in the series shortly and I can't wait!
So for now it's bye bye from Tick Tock Taylor
And give me a W give me a B!
Tata from The Wacky Brit
aka
Hazel Mitchell
Oh ... I can't resist ... this is the teeny TINY squad ....
That must be so hard to have to hold back for ages before sharing one's work. Really liked the teeny TINY squad.
What's the picture from at the top of your blog? It invites one to tag along with the boy and his dog and wander down into the valley.
Hi Joanna ... thanks so much! Yes it is hard to wait, but when you know it's worth waiting for it's ok. I love the teeny squad too, they were fun to think of characters for them.
The boy and the dog is a one off illustration (at the moment) I was writing a story about a boy and his farmdog with mysterious magical qualities ... maybe I will finish it one day.
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