Illustration Friday: Faded

It’s been incredibly warm here the past few days (it makes a lovely change!) so here’s a tree fading into a beautiful hazy summer day.
This is a mix of print and digital, I’d love to screen print this one day soon though.

This is a page taken from my children’s book : my troublesome cloud. Which you can read here!: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2116279

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Jojo x

Illustration Fri: Puzzled

For this weeks illustration Fri I thought I’d pop up this image!
This is an illustration from one of my books called ‘My Troublesome Cloud‘  (click to see more of Celio’s adventures with his cloud on blurb.com!) this page shows Celio being followed (and hailed on) by his ‘rain of terror’ and he’s completely puzzled as to why it’s always there and won’t leave him alone!

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Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Jojo x

Illustration Friday: Shades

So.. Everything’s over and I’ve finally managed to have a weekend all to myself! (Spare time is like gold dust at the moment!) I’ve doodled an adorable red panda chillaxing in the shade for Illustration Friday and also because of the completion of all my current projects, including the Boy and the Bunnet! (You can buy the book  here!) So anyway this red panda kind of feels  a bit like a self portrait right now! I’m off now to enjoy the fleeting sunshine! (Spring’s nearly here!) xx

Relaxing in the shade!

Balach Na Bonaid (The Boy and the Bunnet)

It’s been forever since my last post.. so much has been happening!
I’ve got lots of exciting news and things, but the most exciting of all, is that

‘The Boy and the Bunnet‘ (or Balach Na Bonaid!)
A brave boy, a wee bunnet, a big adventure.

(a children’s book illustration project that I’ve been delighted to be involved in, and working on for a while now with Celtic Connections and Big Sky)
…. is actually being performed as a musical! How cool is that?

You can get tickets here, and see more about the project here!

I’m actually coming up from Nottingham to see the play in Feburary, so exciting!
I completely can’t wait, and it’ll be so lovely to be back in Scotland!

That’s all for now folks, but watch this space!

‘Vulpes & Vulpes’ and ‘My Troublesome Cloud’ are now on Sale!

You can now buy both of my latest children’s books, Vulpes & Vulpes
(a wordless two sided book about a mythical fox and a red fox on the scent trail of eachother!)  and My Troublesome Cloud (Celio has a cloud following him everywhere that just won’t leave him alone!) on Blurb.com!

You can grab both of the books here: http://www.blurb.com/user/JojoNorris

Vulpes & Vulpes Now available to BUY! SIMPLY CLICK HERE!

My Troublesome Cloud is now available to BUY! SIMPLY CLICK HERE

Jumping Fox

Cogs

I’ve been working a lot more on the Cloud story recently, but here’s a snippet of development for one of my foxy pages, the book is focusing on merging the link between rural and urban and shows an interaction with the fox’s environment.  I’m going to make these into badges hopefully!

The Rain of Terror!

I’d actually decided not to upload any of my pages of the two books I’m working on, mostly to keep it a suprise and so I can have a bit of an exciting reveal, but here’s a little peek at what i’ve been up to recently! It’s all likely to keep changing! I used pen, ink, oilbar, watercolour, crayons, and some digital magic:)

Thanks so much troublesome cloud!

Foxy sneak peek!

Some brand spanking new recent development of my foxy book! Though this is very likely to be changing  again soon! Still straightening out a few problems.

BUT I FINALLY have my character though! YAYNESS!

Scent tracking

I’m actually unsure of the background above, Its quite distracting from the main focus of the fox, and I’ll probably alter the composition now too!  It’s made from scanned leaves, papers, collage, patterns and textures are digitally edited, but the foxes and scent lines are watercolour and ink!

Sleeping

The natural pattern work is quite a new development for my work, so I need to make sure I don’t go over the top and use it on EVERYTHING! Probably will tone down the pattern work in this page too.

Don’t ask me about the cloud story..

The Boy and his Troublesome Cloud

Troublesome cloud

Always Raining..

For a new personal project I’ve been writing and illustrating a story about a boy who has a troublesome cloud. This cloud follows him everywhere, constantly raining, hailing, blowing him away, and basically causing a huge stress and annoyance.

I used my usual technique of pens and digital manipulation, but I also tried to highlight the effects of the cloud on the book and the (increasingly irritated) boy by scanning old paper that had been torn, wet and crumpled. This way I could represent  the cloud in a physical way within the book.

 

Fox Prints

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