Augustus Octopus.

Augustus has gleaming white pearly tushy pegs (teeth) with no cavities. He brushes his teeth 8 times a day which may seem a little excessive but he likes each tentacle to take a turn. He loves doughnuts, playing retro arcade game 'Daley Thompson Decathlon' and spotting jet skiers with his binoculars.

He is also currently playing 'doorman' on my website and welcoming everyone in.

Mummy Fish, baby fish.

W is for Whale (and Whiskey)

Ive had a much needed weekend of fun inspiring things, including reptiles, large lanterns, giant cupcakes (and whiskey). It's helped give the imagination a little stir, and me draw a few images with baby books in mind (none of which are related to any of the things i saw at the weekend).

Great news for The Creative District.

I recently had the pleasure of working with Olly Sewell again and the team over at The Creative District. You can read more about the winning pitch and other great projects they're working on by clicking here.

Made with love...

I'm going to have to run out and get cake as soon as i post this. Check out this mountain of cup cakes made by Kirsty Seidler (who also makes the best sock monkeys - see my sock monkey page!). I'm not sure how she makes so many, my oven would surely explode. Kirsty makes cup cakes for all occasions and having tried and tested some of these, i can honestly say they are very very yummy. I'm now pleased to say that my little cakey bird is going to be the new 'beak' of Kirstys' cupcake empire! Where there is a cakey bird, there will be a yummy cake also!

Right, I'm off to find me some...

Busy Lisa

I've been so busy for the last month I've forgotten to update my poor blog. I can't really post anything that I'm working on until it's finished.

Above is something i've been working on inbetween jobs. It's not quite finished yet either, but here is a small section that i screengrabbed. :o)

Colour Test

This young little man hates eating fish with icecream, to be honest i don't blame him!
Week 2 of drawing the books and a couple of other things. Haven't left the house in 3 days! Downside of Freelancing sometimes when it gets busy but small price to pay for doing what you love. Treating myself to a walk out tomorrow though!

Busy week!

No new work to put up at the moment as it's all in progress. I'm really excited to be working on 4 children's educational publications and it's keeping me very busy. All great fun though!

More Odosketch Fun

Oodles of doodles on Odosketch

odosketch - lease

http://sketch.odopod.com/users/31674

There's a great website i often visit to doodle called Odosketch. 'Odosketch is a flash drawing application created by Odopod, a digital agency in San Francisco. Create sketches, watch sketches replay, or simply view recent and our favorite featured illustrations.'

There are some really talented artists using this site and although you can replay peoples work back and watch how the sketch is built up, i still don't quite know how they manage to get such control over their mark making. Maybe i shouldn't use my wacom tablet as a place mat...

The lovely people over at Odosketch featured my doodles this week and called me their 'artist to watch' which is really kind of them!

If you haven't seen the site, head on over to Odosketch, create an account and get sketching.
Happy doodling!