Oh dear...SLACKING.

Whoa, there was a tinsey lapse there, sorry about that...

Been very busy recently, sounds like a classic excuse but IT'S THE TRUTH I TELLS YA! My days have been consumed with concept art and try my damndest to get my debut picture book looking as good as can be. It's been really hard work, but hopefully it will pay off when the book comes out and looks lovely and wonderful and at least a bit readable. It's taking a long time, but first books do that, I've been told by many reliable sources, and I'm still as excited as ever.

Unfortunately, at these early stages, it still means I can't show anything just yet, so once again I'm scrounging through my sketchbooks for something interesting to show for the sake of keeping this blog alive and well. Here you go. I will try hard to keep this badboy updated a bit better! Until then...

Flipping 'elf. Oh ho ho.

Here's another 'fantasy' illustration I've put together inbetween children's book stuff. It's quite nice to work in a different style and subject matter to what you spend most days doing (just keeping things fresh and all that) now and then. Although I've been oing quite a lot of experimentation for my children's book which is certainly pushing me creatively...I'll show some stuff as soon as I'm allowed! In the mean time, elves and dwarfs and all that...

Assassin

I don't know why, but I've had a really Arabian Nights, 'Prince of Persia' thing going on this week, and as it's my last week before things get really, really busy, I thought I'd put this illustration together. I quite like it, the atmosphere and all, but I kinda wish the characters were a bit bigger, simply because I feel a lot of their detail is lost in the composition...

Aaawww...BUNNIES.

Easter was certainly lazy, but feeling a tad too lazy, I messed around with paint and stuff, and came up with this. Why I wasn't hunting for eggs is anyone's guess, I need a holiday manager or something.

New Site!

I have updated my site! Woohoo! It took a while, all this fiddly flash malarky, but it's now there and complete and will hopefully be updated on a relatively regular basis. Promises, promises...

http://www.jamielittler.co.uk

The Beast.

This is quite an old illustration I did of the Beast from the folktale beauty and the beast...which I found again lurking in my hard drive and decided to recompose and colour. Here is the finished result! Bam.

Your future holds...a massively awesome powder wig.

I was thinking of doing a set of alternative tarot cards, the above being my version of 'The Tower', but I'm not sure 1) If they're working all that well and 2) If I will have the time and lastly 3) if I can be bothered.

I'm still in the rough phrase of my first ever children's book to be published which is still very exciting, and I am also currently re-doing my website, which will hopefully be bigger, better and updated more regularily. Until then...