Where does inspiration come from?

Our book illustrations are created at the storyboard, and our illustrator, Holly, brings them to life. We work by e-mail, bouncing ideas back and forth across cyberspace until they come to life - that is until we have a rough that we are both happy with and Holly paints them to life.

So we thought you would like to see some of the sources of our inspiration, and have started a photogallery. I wonder if you recognise where and how they appeared in our books? It isn't always obvious. Conversely, it has been difficult to find examples of some things we needed to illustrate, and we have resorted to Google Sketchup (wonderful, free tool) to rotate the angle, or work out what we would see.

All work should be this much fun!

As well as finishing off the new book, tasks for this month include the final two story CDs: French and English ~ we never thought it would all take this long.