Henry & Matilda - an illustration I did for someone else for children

Some years ago I did an illustration of Henry the Mouse and never quite got to illustration Matilda the cat. I was doing an art course at that stage that did not want any representational art in their curriculum that year.

However, I went to a pet shop to take photos of a small white mouse. I got my mouse character Henry from those photos and developed Henry the Mouse.

In a story every thing has to fit together and that is the hard part. The key is research and hard work by hand for hand done illustrations. Takes a while to do.

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I combined hand drawn illustration and text with my old iG5 Mac Desktop with the old Apple Works application

HistoryGal says:

March 8, 2019 at 5:03 am

That is one cutie pie of a mouse.

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- Pamela Moresby says:
  
  March 8, 2019 at 7:25 am
  
  Thanks so much HistoryGal, glad you like the mouse.
  
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A very worried Mouse, it isn't hard to imagine a worried Mouse at all.

HistoryGal says:

March 8, 2019 at 5:04 am

I think I would not mind having this little mouse around me.

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- Pamela Moresby says:
  
  March 8, 2019 at 7:25 am
  
  Neither would I mind Henry the Mouse
  
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Henry dusts his mouse house

My husband Warwick helped me to get the perspective right by hand. It really pays to get support in what you do. He instructed me how to get it right.

HistoryGal says:

March 8, 2019 at 5:05 am

The mouse doing housework and the husband helping in the background.

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Alex Ledante says:

March 8, 2019 at 5:40 am

I can see what you mean about the bookshelf and perspective

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- Pamela Moresby says:
  
  March 8, 2019 at 7:28 am
  
  Thanks Alex, it took quite a bit of work but it gets done eventually and I look back at the result as if I haven’t done it at all. You work it all out mathematically.
  
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  - Alex Ledante says:
    
    March 9, 2019 at 4:32 am
    
    I make the computer work it all out mathematically. I built it to be an unpaid intern, and I make it do all the gruntwork…
    
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    - Pamela Moresby says:
      
      March 10, 2019 at 8:46 am
      
      Thanks Alex I think this was 2 point perspective.
      
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      - Pamela Moresby says:
        
        March 11, 2019 at 6:54 am
        
        What is intern? These computer software apps must save quite a lot of time.
      - Alex Ledante says:
        
        March 11, 2019 at 4:37 am
        
        even that can be a pain. I make the intern deal with it all…
        
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    - Pamela Moresby says:
      
      March 9, 2019 at 9:17 am
      
      You can get it by using the usual vanishing points in perspective drawing.
      
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      - Alex Ledante says:
        
        March 10, 2019 at 5:19 am
        
        I’ve even done four and five point perspective by hand, but that’s brutal…