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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. 

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. 

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Written by Pamela Moresby

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    • Thanks I did not get the opportunity to finish the illustration as my art course got more demanding and would not allow me to do representational art.
      These things happened at least I passed and got my degree.

  1. You are a talented illustrator. I hope you still do this type of work. We always need some good finger and hand drawn artist unlike the computer originated drawings. Not that I totally dislike “pixels” but they are not the same as hand drawn, or watercolour or oil paintings.

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    • Thanks HistoryGal, hand done gives you an appreciation of the true art form. Computer illustration has its own merits and I like both. However, I think everyone needs to learn to do things creatively by hand.

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