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The Education of Ivy Edwards by Hannah Tovey hit the shelves this week, featuring a wonderfully vibrant cover by Hello Marine. Marine’s bold, contemporary art style perfectly captures this joyous and surprising novel. To see more of Marine's work, click here.
Get ready to walk 100 steps with Adam Larkum's latest illustrated book about the famous Captain Sir Tom Moore.
Kate Forrester has created illustrations for an animation announcing the new flavours of beers for Modelo USA.
Katie Ponder has illustrated “Greek Myths”, a new collection of the classic tales written by Jean Menzies and published by DK.
In Case You Missed It by Lindsey Kelk hit the shelves this week, featuring this beautifully elegant and stylish cover illustration by Lucy Truman. To see more of Lucy's work, click here.
The trailer for Lucy Rose Cartwright’s new book “Wild City” starts off with a city townhouse, revealed to be surrounded by all kinds of flora and fauna, some expected, but some… definitely unexpected! Flamingoes?!
These are the kind of reveals and unexpected communities we can expect to find in “Wild City”, an exploration of cities round the world and the creatures we share them with. Illustrated by Lucy Rose Cartwright and written by the award winning natural history author Ben Hoare, the book takes the reader from London to Singapore to Rio de Janeiro.
Initially approached to create the cover and a few sample spreads, Lucy’s illustrative approach was then used throughout the full book. Lucy worked closely with designer Laura Hall to make sure that all the correct animals and feature of each city were included before working up her sketches into full colour illustrations!
The danger with working on images like these however, is enjoying getting lost in the details a little too much, “I had to be strict on how much time I could spend on each page, it was very easy to get caught up in adding too much detail.” But being strict didn’t mean that Lucy didn’t enjoy the brief, “I really enjoyed this project and felt so grateful to be part of it. The most exciting time for me is when you first receive the brief and you sit down and sketch out all your ideas, I still sketch all of my roughs by hand rather than using my iPad as I love the physicality of drawing on paper. ”
Wild City is out via Macmillan Kids Publishing in Autumn 2020.
See the full trailer here.
Phosphor Art's Bill Sanderson recently illustrated some title pages for J.R.R. Tolkien's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Martyn Pick is proudly represented by Artist Partners - and the multi talented artist is not only a filmaker in his own right, but also a producer and illustrator, animator and storyboard artist.
Biz Hull has been represented by Artist Partners for many years, and has been busily engaged on a series of books which has lasted for well over 20 years, and in that time she has produced hundreds of artworks for the children’s book series entitled :
My Secret Unicorn - written by Linda Chapman we have just completed the last book in the series of 66 titles.
It has been a thrilling time for awards nominations and the excitement continues with the announcement of the Alligators Mouth Awards for Highly Illustrated Fiction. This year we are delighted that Adam Stower's King Coo: The Curse of the Mummy’s Gold, published by David Fickling Books is on the long-list for this exciting new award.