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1. Baby Can Bounce!: Bouncing into a Shop Near You...
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By: Lynne Chapman, on 7/8/2012
Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  hot tips, Baby Goes Baaaa, Baby Can Bounce, illustration, publication, babies, Add a tag


Hurray! Baby Can Bounce!, my new baby book and the sequel to Baby Goes Baaaaa! is now out.


The bold baby animal illustrations are designed specifically to catch the eye of babies from 1- 3 yrs, but I've worked hard to try and make sure that both books are also a funny read for the poor parents (some baby books can be a little basic in content, so gruelling on the 50th repetition...). I wanted mine to be fun to read aloud and easy to share with baby again and again. 


I got the idea for Baby Goes Baaaaa! from noticing that many of my friend's baby's loved making animal noises. I knew that phonics was very important for early language development and learning, so created a book to help readers practise the all the different sounds that all babies enjoy: educational and fun!

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2. Baby Goes Baaaaa! - Publication!!!!
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By: Lynne Chapman, on 4/4/2012
Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  babies, co-editions, hot tips, Baby Goes Baaaa, Baby Can Bounce, publishing, publication, Add a tag




Yes, today is the day (hurrah!) when all you good people can rush out to your local booksellers and demand multiple copies of my newest book, Baby Goes Baaaaa! 




The book is stuffed full of sounds that baby will recognise and can easily make. Making these early sounds with a baby is fundamental to early language development, but the funny illustrations of various cute and silly animal characters romping through the book will hopefully make it a fun experience to share and explore together, while the learning happens behind the scenes.




Although the pictures here are square edged, the actual book has gently rounded corners to make it baby-friendly, plus it's fully laminated (thanks Egmont), to allow for enthusiastic licking and sucking! 


My editor at Egmont tells me that we have already sold over 7000 copies (queue fireworks...)!! These are not sales made over the counter at bookshops of course, since it's only just available to buy

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3. Proof and Advance Copies have Arrived!
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By: Lynne Chapman, on 1/31/2012
Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  hot tips, Baby Goes Baaaa, proofing, Baby Can Bounce, illustration, Photoshop, Designer, Add a tag


A deceptively unimpressive jiffy-bag came with the postman on Friday. I opened it and pulled out an advance copy of Baby Goes Baaaaa! and the proof of my newest book Baby Can Bounce! 



I am so pleased with the production. The colours really zing out on the glossy, lacquered paper. I'm totally happy with the pale blue cover now, after my slight grumpiness when it was changed, and I love the way the yellow cover of book 2 works with it: much better than Egmont's initial plan for lilac would have.

I love the choice of the rounded corners too - a sensible idea (not mine, I hasten to add) to stop sharp edges going into little eyes, but it also makes the books so cute and friendly looking! I've already shown you the insides of Baby Goes Baaaaa!, from the printer's dummy we got a while ago, so these are all from Baby Can Bounce!:





Another thing I can't claim credit for, is the fab title page of Baby Can Bounce! - all the work of my lovely designer, Sarah, who I've worked with for years and years, even though in that time she has moved between 3 different publishers (they just happened to always be ones I've was working with at the time!)



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4. Dashing for the Finishing Line...
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By: Lynne Chapman, on 12/19/2011
Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The rescans for Baby Can Bounce! came back last week (remember the problems we had?). The colours are definitely truer now, with more 'ping'. All good news, except having to do them again put us well behind schedule, especially with Christmas looming... 



It meant I had to strap myself to my computer, get my head down and digitally cut out these last few illustrations at record speed, so they could get to the printers before everyone waved their offices bye bye and got stuck into the mince pies and whiskey.




The trampoline cover piece above was straightforward (apart from swapping a green reflection on the trampoline for a purple one, now he's not naked!), but none of the 3 pieces we re-scanned from the inside have been especially quick or easy. The Baby can tickle monkeys at the top were unusually fiddly, with lots of edges. Baby can sniff / splash has been a headache because of the puddle splash: 


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5. Going Bug-Eyed: Creating Vignette Illustrations in Photoshop
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By: Lynne Chapman, on 12/3/2011
Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I have been chained to the computer lately, finishing the artwork for my latest book Baby Can Bounce!. I normally like to keep weekends work-free, but last weekend I had my nose to the screen all day, both days.

When the scans of my illustrations come back from the repro-house, the characters are of course still on my pink pastel paper: 




The idea is to drop them on the same range of colours as Baby Goes Baaaaa!. Sarah, my designer at Egmont, tried out various possibilities, most of which I think worked really well. I made suggestions for a couple of changes, which she agreed: it's very much a team effort at this stage.

Once the colours had been decided, I then had the job of 'cutting out' the characters in Photoshop, to get rid of the pink paper. This little character is illustrating Baby can shake:




And that's not quite all: because the illustrations were drawn on pink, they don't necessarily 'sit' properly on the new colour straight away. So another job is to make any tonal or colour adjustments needed, so it looks as though I always intended it to be on that colour. This is always most obvious with the shadows at their feet.


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6. Hippy Dude Chases Taxi Through the Streets
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By: Lynne Chapman, on 12/1/2011
Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This week has been another busy one...

I started it by spending all weekend locked up in the studio with my nose to the computer, working on my Baby Can Bounce scans in Photoshop, cutting out vignettes and then tinkering with the digital images, to help them 'bed in' with the coloured backgrounds we have dropped behind:


So, as you can imagine, I was already feeling a little jaded on Monday morning, when I had to drag myself out of my warm, cosy bed at 5.15am (!!!) to make a 6.30 train to Durham. 



Now, this wouldn't have been so bad if I wasn't still recovering from particularly late night on Saturday. It was my good friend (and fellow illustrator) Lydia Monks's birthday, so a group of us donned fancy dress and went to a 1970's themed party. Arriving home in the wee small hours, we staggered from the taxi, went to let ourselves in, then realised... I had left my handbag in the back of the cab, whose tail lights were just rounding the corner.

John made chase (in full 70's gear, including a wig), but to no avail. So: no door key, no mobile, no way in. Once we'd finished swearing, John scaled the fence and broke a wi

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7. Baby Can Bounce: the Cover is Sorted
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By: Lynne Chapman, on 11/19/2011
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Sarah, my designer at Egmont, has finished the cover design for my new book. The stripy text I prepared and scanned is all done and in place, the baby croc has his pants on (!) the new strap-line is in place (although that still might change: we're not sure if it's too educational sounding) and the colour is... 


...yep: yellow. 

This is quite funny. Though I was the one who stuck out for yellow originally, when the guys at Egmont wanted lilac (because I thought it would work better with the green croc), I changed my mind when I saw the lilac mocked up. Typical then, that the consensus at Egmont should now change to liking the yellow. It's especially ironic, given that I had to change the cover of Baby Goes Baaaaa!, which I conceived as yellow from the start, to a duck-egg blue. Hey ho. 


If you want to read about how the cover was designed from my scratch, take a look at my initial sketches.

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