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Been messing around with a brush and some ink.

Wild Papa Woods Out Today.

Hello all.

My latest book (I say "my" book, but I've only done the pictures) Wild Papa Woods is out today. If you fancy taking a look, or even buying, you can find it here.

It's part of Pearson's Bug Club series and was written by Patrice Lawrence.  I enjoyed working on this. I was pretty ill at the time and would have loved more time on the colours due to me feeling like death twice reheated.

Parts of this remind me of the work I did on The Silence Seeker. Some of it is... not so good, but what the heck, you learn and move on and learn again. You never stop.

Cheers

Carl

Tropical Aspirations.

Just thought I'd pop a couple of images I've just completed for a book about the Philippines. I wanted something warm and aspirational, hence the steamy diffused colours.

God, I'm ready for some warm weather, sun, sea and sand...

These were roughed out on cartridge paper in blue, very choppy, then cleaned up in blue and light-box-traced onto a clean piece of cartridge with a HB technical pencil. Hopefully you can't tell the difference between this and an ink line, which I usually use.

I fine I draw much more freely and my lines are more organic when I use a pencil. I worry about cock ups with ink and I can put a bit more pressure on the pencil without fear of snapping a nib.

Let me know what you think about my pencil lines over the ink.

Cheers for now

Carlos!

Happy St Davids Day!

To all Welshoids from a northern Welshoid. Spring is finally here, thankfully.

Carlos

Yikes!

Yikes!

I can't believe that I haven't updated yet this year. To make up for it here are a few image from some jobs I've been working on so far in 2013. I'll have to try harder!

Above is a piece of final colour work for a kid's book I've just completed for Pearson. Below is a sheet of sketch ideas for a job about climate change on a Polynesian island.

Below are two images from the previous book again. The first of which being a before and after showing the pencil rough and the final inked and coloured picture.

There you go. I hope you enjoy them.

See ya later!

Carlos.

Merry Christmas

It's a little late, but hope you all have a good 'en!

PLAYER 2!

Just a quick one...

Blanka from Street Fighter 2, player 2 version.

Later!

The No Dogs Allowed Rule

I had a nice delivery yesterday.

The book has come out really well. Card cover with dust jacket, crystal clear print quality, nice paper for this kind of book, good binding and I love the red undercover with metallic red embossed text.

One little detail though. A pretty atypically American mistake. "Wales, England"? Really, guys? Ha ha.

Other than that little faux pas, a cracking job all round. A big thanks and well done to my esteemed colleagues at Albert Whitman Publishing in the USA, Canada.
Or is it Mexico?

Ha ha. 

Now. Rush out and buy this beauty. The story is great, the main protagonist, Ishan, is a proper little scamp and a nice believable character.  I'd assume it'll be available in paperback format soon too, and you can buy from the usual places, online and high street.

www.amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.com

StoryCloud!

Today's the day.

'Ali's Trousers' by Azzad Benkerroum and Illustrated my yours truly is available to read on the Story Cloud website today. Check it out and tell me what you think.

There are two little mistakes made on it though. Weird grey shadows and granny's wrist has has some kind of dodgy glitch on it where it's supposed to be hidden in the sleeve, but what the hell.

The Story Cloud website was launched by The Discover Centre on the 18th June in Stratford, London. Just over the way from the Olympic Stadium. Story Cloud was set up as an online web app for children to read new stories every Monday until 3rd September 2012 and take part creating their own tales and adventures.

I was one of 12 illustrators and 12 writers asked to take part and so far it's gone down a storm. In association with the web app, I visited 2 schools in North Wales, St Winefred's Catholic School in Holywell, and Ysgol Maes Glas, to do specific workshops with two classes from each. The workshops used Story Cloud as a starting point. I then showed the children my own work and helped them write and illustrate their own books and stories, which they were then encouraged to submit to the Story Cloud online gallery.

For more info on the Story Cloud project, The Discover Centre or even booking me into your schools and venues, see the blurbs below.

Carl

About Story Cloud

 StoryCloud is a collection of 12 online stories that you can read, listen to and download. Click on icons to see a story and choose to read or listen. Then go and find the surprises in the pictures and see the challenges and tasks for you to write a story of your own.

About Discover Children's Story Centre

Discover Children's Story Centre is an independent charity dedicated to generating a love of language, literature and stories. Based in Stratford, east London, Discover has a story centre where children and families enter a labyrinth of magical environments designed to stimulate curiosity and imagination.
We believe that stories have the power to transform children's lives - to inspire creativity, learning and communication.
We hope that you and your family will enjoy StoryCloud's 12 unique stories by some of the UK's finest authors, illustrators and members of our east London community, and that they will inspire you to create and share your own stories.
StoryCloud showcases some of the UK's most talented authors and illustrators as part of London 2012 Festival.
To find out more about us visit us on the web www.discover.org.uk, Facebook and Twitter @discover_story

Book Carl for a Workshop

If you wish to book Carl Pearce to hold a children's book illustration and writing workshop in your school or venue he can be reached by e-mail at jimoakley666@hotmail.com, found on Facebook or via his agent, Edward Burns of Advocate Art.

A Vision

How did I miss the whole of June on the blog?

Oh, well. As a show of... anything. Here is my version of the Vision, the Avengers' odd android member.

This is my concept of a movie Vision as created by a Stark / Pym tag team. The idea is that the body was pretty much 'grown' around an A.I. hooked up to a Stark arc reactor with Iron Man type armour grafted to his outer body.

I was influenced by the bizarre bio-tech suited Engineers from Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Iron Man's Extremis armour.

Catch you soon!

Ollie, Yo!

It's a perfect day. Just the kind of weather to get out and do something like the above.

Well... Maybe not. I'd break my back. But at least get out doors.

yeah!


...ahem...

Hello!

Just thought I'd drop something on here you say hello. This is from one of the many projects I'm currently working on. It's a pencil rough with the preceding doodle / scribble that get's me sorted an ready to go.

Does anyone read these? Let me know if you do. All comments are more than welcome.

Catch you later!

Carl