Under the sea

Concepts for  the classic book by Jules Verne.

Treasure Island

Ladybird Classics: Treasure Island

Ahoy land lovers! 
Last July I completed illustrating my first Ladybird book. 'Treasure island'. I was very excited to be working with ladybird and this title, and enjoyed the job tremendously. A year later and its hitting the shelves. Below are a few examples from the book as well as some working images detailing my process.





These are a handful of  concepts  I did before starting the project.
First Pencil Designs
What better excuse to visit the docks at Portsmouth, the Victory was a much larger ship then the schooner described in the book, ...we went anyway.

I built a small head sculpt of Jim Hawkins with some soft clay to get a better idea of angles and light.







Sinbad the Sailor

 

C is for Cookie


On this one i built and designed the BG's (Maya/Deep Paint/Photoshop)

Cookie machine


The first image I created for the pitch on a cookie crisp commercial, and the second I built in Maya.