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For the first time ever, I actually get to *sign* a few books! I did the border illustrations and headers for The Lightbringers, first in a new series of folklore retellings by @andtheHare - open the thread to see the original drawings... 
Here are the sheets and notes of all the little wreaths and the different images which fabulous @graffeg_books designer, Joana Rodrigues, combined in various ways to add detail to the book.
Here are a few of the ones that were not used, just sketches, working out how dense a border could be in a smallish book, and what colours would work against the foliage.
All the little sketches have notes, discussed with author and illustrator @andtheHare so designer Joana would know which page each was intended for..
And my favourite. Karin let me draw a sleeping hedgehog but refused to let me give it red wellies. So I added the red wellies after I'd sent the scanned image to Joana. All hedgehogs need red wellies. If she woke in the Spring and found NO red wellies hedgie would be distraught!
This is such a lovely book, and it was a joy to be able to work on it, and alongside a writer and illustrator who I admire very much.
As a textile artist, working with photographs in natural settings, I've noticed that she is always overlooked for awards. Her sense of composition, atmosphere and character is wonderful, but it isn't seen as 'proper illustration' somehow, which is an embarrassing oversight.
