Harry Whitewolf's Blog - Posts Tagged "children-s-books"
Illustration Services Now Available!
Forget the bull, it’s time for a plug…
Do you need affordable cartoon illustrations? If so, check out my portfolio and my rates here
Do you not need illustrations? Well, why not check out my portfolio anyway?
In this day and age of digital art, my endearing hand-drawn illustrations can really stand out, so if my style of drawing is for you, please get in touch!
I recently completed the illustrations for the children’s book: Heckrington Peck and Friends by Graham Knight, from which the above two illustrations are from. It was was great fun to do, and it made me realise that I enjoy illustrating books more than any other type of illustration work (particularly children’s books, as I feel my style of drawing suits that genre, and my own illustration-heroes are the likes of Quentin Blake, Albert Uderzo and Tony Ross).
Whilst I enjoy drawing for any project, I think I like illustrating kids’ books the most because:
a) I love bringing to life someone’s character. And when I write my own kids’ books, I always feel that they’re incomplete until I have brought the characters into the physical visual world.
b) I’m just a big kid myself.
I’ve worked as a part-time freelance illustrator, on and off, for over twenty years, and have provided drawings for catalogues, greeting cards, poetry books, company logos and more. For several years, I also ran cartoon workshops at various arts centres and libraries throughout the UK, including two popular events for The Big Draw Festival - the world’s biggest celebration of drawing.
I’m currently looking to secure more permanent work, so if you have a kids’ book that needs illustrating, or any other book or project, please consider hiring me!
If you were previously unaware that I also write children’s books under the name of Mr. Wolf, you won’t know that you can read my book The Top Secret Cheese for FREE on my website:
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My kids’ books are very humorous, and plenty of adult readers enjoy them, so if you’re a big kid, maybe you’ll give them a go.
Oh, and one last thing: Mr. Wolf’s long-awaited new book Mr. Zumpo’s Amazing Zoo of Unusual Animals will be out later this year!
Thanks for your interest!
Harry
A.K.A. Mr. Wolf.
New Kids' Book, New Covers and Other Updates
It's been nearly half a year since my last blog post, which shows how busy I've been in the offline world in 2018. First off: my alter-ego Mr. Wolf is releasing a new kids' book in the next couple of months, and the old kids' books covers have now been replaced. So here are the new covers, including the forthcoming book Mr. Zumpo's Amazing Zoo of Unusual Animals...
If you're a Goodreads regular in my circle, you may have noticed I'm now on GR about a tenth of the time I have been over the last few years. I'm sure I'll be back at some point to badger you all and make crap jokes, but real life's been keeping me too busy to put too much mind to social media. Sorry to those friends I have neglected, and the indie authors whose books I've promised to read... I'll get there!
My time has been taken up with work of one kind or another. I am now a full-time content writer for a U.S. based company, so I've been having to focus and work hard - and learn all those wacky Americanisms I don't know! - in these early stages. On top of that, I seem to now have constant illustration jobs on the go, and am currently illustrating three books. Somehow or other, I've also become the lyricist for a rock band! But that story can wait for another time.
In between more-than-full-time work, there's trying to cram in the creative projects. I'm afraid that you're going to have a long wait for any new poetry, as I've hit a dry phase at present, but there are other projects on the go. Apart from the new Mr. Wolf children's book, I've been busy collaboratively editing an anthology for charity, which we'll have official news of soon, and I've been working on my first proper novel for the last year or so - and I fear it might take another year or so before it's ready.
Get ready for a Great Whitewolf Giveaway next week. If there are books of mine which you have not yet read, then this will be your chance!
Keep sticking it to The Man and keep loving each other,
Harry. x
My time has been taken up with work of one kind or another. I am now a full-time content writer for a U.S. based company, so I've been having to focus and work hard - and learn all those wacky Americanisms I don't know! - in these early stages. On top of that, I seem to now have constant illustration jobs on the go, and am currently illustrating three books. Somehow or other, I've also become the lyricist for a rock band! But that story can wait for another time.
In between more-than-full-time work, there's trying to cram in the creative projects. I'm afraid that you're going to have a long wait for any new poetry, as I've hit a dry phase at present, but there are other projects on the go. Apart from the new Mr. Wolf children's book, I've been busy collaboratively editing an anthology for charity, which we'll have official news of soon, and I've been working on my first proper novel for the last year or so - and I fear it might take another year or so before it's ready.
Get ready for a Great Whitewolf Giveaway next week. If there are books of mine which you have not yet read, then this will be your chance!
Keep sticking it to The Man and keep loving each other,
Harry. x
