Drawing Animals

Since I spoke to you last, I have finished my cuckoo illustration for the letter 'C':

I then got on with the 3rd 'spread' illustration, which incorporates three letters in one image: K, L & M, with three different animals having a bit if a song and dance:

Because there were more letters to get through in the book, than pages at my disposal, I had, as much as possible, to combine letters together; not always easy, but this one seemed quite natural. This is how it stood on Monday evening:

I finished it on Tuesday afternoon, after I had packaged up and posted those bits of artwork to Egmont.

The cat was originally going to be a ginger, as in Bears on the Stairs and The Show at Rickety Barn, as those lovely shades of orange are so beautiful in an illustration, but I thought it might create confusion for Baby, given the proximity of the ginger fox, so I made the cat a tabby instead, which turned out to be a nice change for me. I really enjoyed doing the zebra too - never illustrated one of those before!