I was very happy to get my copy of this book, it’s my first
book for DK Books that I have been the sole illustrator for which was exciting!
For this commission I worked with another great senior designer, Hannah Moore. Hannah would give me a brief for the illustrations she wanted and then she added the photos and the text. I really like the way she added the photos of the veg underneath on this one.
I really enjoyed drawing the little bouncy olives
I think the veg pages were my favourites!
Keeping the illustrations very simple, with any people drawn in a childlike style, was key for this project. It was also good practice for me in drawing in a freer, doodling way.
I loved how playful and inventive Hannah was in adding the photos, the broccoli trees are brilliant (I do love broccoli though so I might be slightly biased)
As well as all the great recipes it also has some good educational sections
The teddy bear crops up a few times throughout the book. I love the cheerfulness of this page design, think I might make that cake myself too!
Here he is in a few of the other pages
I also enjoyed adding a few little bees and bugs to a page on making 'blossom biscuits'
I like the idea of a building made out of blocks of brownies, would be a bit too hard to resist though I think!
This book was great fun to work on, doodling over the top of these pasties to turn them into chickens didn't feel like work at all!
