Celia Hyland Illustration Challenge

  (My personal Illustration Challenge for 2017 is to complete one 'page spread' from a popular, modern or classic children's story each week, picked randomly from a hat. Using lines from the original text, I am re-creating the 'imagery' in my own way, just for fun!) And they went rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta, all down the road... The Elephant and the Bad Baby written by Elfrida Vipont, illustrated by Raymond Briggs, published 1969 One of my ALL TIME favourites this week, and I was terrified of not doing it justice, so I drew the initial pencil sketch days ago and it has sat in my sketchbook glaring at me. I really didn't want to proceed and ruin it, and thus ruin one of my favourites. How do you even follow Raymond Briggs with those amazing illustrations full of energy and movement and colour? I had forgotten that he does actually use both full colour and black and white images in this book. I decided I can draw elephants - no challenge there - and I really w

  (My personal Illustration Challenge for 2017 is to complete one 'page spread' from a popular, modern or classic children's story each week, picked randomly from a hat. Using lines from the original text, I am re-creating the 'imagery' in my own way, just for fun!) An old classic tale... Jack and the Beanstalk Half way up the mighty stalk, Jack felt it suddenly sway. Terrified, he clung on tighter. Looking up to judge his next move, he caught sight of something - or some one - moving far above him. The most challenging part of this illustration was getting the perspective right. I really wanted to make him look high above the ground. I think it's worked. Again, I've used pencil and digital colour.