David had a great story but needed someone to bring it to life with illustrations so he turned to dollop.
David approached us with a story, but in his own words had 'no artistic talent'. He'd approached a couple of publishers and there was interest in the story but wanted to have some illustrations and a book to make it into something physical.
He had a vision in mind for Penelope which we set about sketching up and seeing if what we'd doodled was as he pictured. Luckily we weren't far off and then it was a case of breaking down the story into pages, working together to decide what illustrations we'd show and how many. It's a really fun process of working together. The author will see the story in their mind and it's a case of trying to prise that out and then translate that into a drawing.
Once we'd completed all the illustrations we worked together on the book layout and pages to get it print ready for the publisher.
This was such a fun project to be involved with and it's always a great feeling to get your hands on a physical copy of something you've worked on to see it in book shops.
