Great work! Your illustrations are very sweet and heart-warming. I like your idea of how you add water colour textures, I might have to experiment with that

@KaraDaniel Thank you! I will try and push these things a bit more It's a spread from a dummy book I am working on!

@theprairiefox Thanks! I've been staring at this piece so long I think I need to step back and look at it with fresh eyes in a couple days I'm always scared of over-working pieces!
There will be text when I'm done, something along the lines of "The teacher thinks children are scrumptious", or "The teacher loves to eat children," etc, but I would like it to be clear without the text too so I'm going to try and exaggerate the teacher and her mouth and teeth a bit more

Really cute! I also like it better without the crop

I've taken everyone's feedback on board and made some changes

@xin-li Yes that would be lovely! I'll be there for the first 2 and a half days
@Carrie-Anne-Brown Thank you! Yes I like the idea of adding more chaos and things falling from her hands!
@IanS Thanks! Haha yes she does look like she has one arm, I never noticed I will have a play around tonight. I love that Quentin Blake illustration, the children's expressions are perfect hahaha

@NessIllustration @Suji-Park @xin-li Thank you for the feedback! Yes I agree about the gutter, it goes right through her legs. Very silly of me, I always set guides so I can see the gutter when working, but I deleted the guide when I went to start colouring, and ended up moving things around after deleting the guide
I like the idea of adding a bit more exaggeration and chaos. Thanks!

Hi guys
I’m reworking some dummy books in preparation for Bologna book fair. Would like some feedback on this spread (haven’t added text yet but it’s a short sentence which will go on the top right page)
The idea is a girl imagining all her fears about starting primary school. On this page she imagines that the teacher eats children. I would love to hear any thoughts.

@idid People do get work from the fair but it doesn't always happen. Usually in the meeting if a publisher likes your work they ask you to email them a PDF of your work later. This happened to me but unfortunately I didn't get any response after that!
I haven't had work from going to the fair yet, but it is still a valuable experience to network and see what is doing well in the childrens book industry. To be honest I was still a university student when I went and I don't think my work was good enough. Maybe when I go this year, fingers crossed! I've already had an agent reach out to me who wants to meet me in Bologna

@Jose-A-Nieto Thank you! I am probably just impatient so I end up creating work very quickly and not including loads of details But that suits me!