You will remember that I sent off all my completed artwork from Baby Can Bounce! on November 1st, the day before we left for our mis-adventures in Wales. The guys at Egmont emailed to let me know it had arrived safely (phew) and said they loved it (double phew).
But...
They also noticed something we had all overlooked: the baby croc on the cover illustration had a bare bum!
On the illustration inside the book he was wearing little bathing shorts, but for some reason I had forgotten to sketch them in on my roughs. And even though Egmont had the roughs for about 2 months, nobody there noticed either!
This cover image is needed in a dreadful hurry, because it needs to be featured on the inside back cover of book 1, which is about to go to print.
This cover image is needed in a dreadful hurry, because it needs to be featured on the inside back cover of book 1, which is about to go to print.
It felt very silly to do, and reminded me of the cut-out clothes for dress-ups we used to get when we were kids, with little paper tabs to attach them to a cardboard doll (am I showing my age..?).
In the meantime, I have made this little mock-up which will help Sarah, my designer at Egmont, to experiment with background colours:
4 comments:
lol - some nakedness in crocodiles might be good for kids :)
Ha! This really made me laugh. Brilliant! I love the crocodile both naked and in trunks...
Too funny that everyone failed to notice he had dropped his shorts :o)
Maybe he felt less restricted when 'bouncing naked'!
Thank goodness for digital magic eh!
Excellent stuff, thanks for posting.
I wonder how often this sort of thing happens and we don't hear about it?
Great solution though :)
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