I'm a Chemical Engineer

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Full disclosure, comic books were not really my 'thing'. My friend Melanie mentioned this project to me wondering if I knew anyone who could do it. I looked high and low and we could not match the style to someone who had the time to do it. I did not have the time at all, but as always I am up for a challenge and off we went. We are just about to start #2... and we are getting high accolades already - which is awesome.

Watching time bandits and sketching away...

So I am dying to do some darker stuff... Some older books or covers or something... So working on a style that I've always had, and been wanting to do... While my kids are in the tub. This is done in procreate on my iPad in about 30 minutes. The sketch was done while I was doing some homework for my job, watching time bandits. I have the WORST job, lol!

Our boy is eight...

He had a small request, a cake that depicted our literally whirlwind trip to Algonquin this summer. We were in there when the microburst hit, trees flying everywhere, landing on our canoe and stuff, but luckily not us or our kids. When we paddled out of the Barron canyon the next day, there was not a soul around, it was so quiet and beautiful I wept - maybe due to exhaustion - the night before we did not sleep a wink all night, there were snags everywhere and they creaked all night long so we took turns listening and watching... But we had the entire canyon to ourselves. Our kids, 3 and 7 loved every minute of it. Our eldest, Mowat, designed this map in photoshop to put on a water bottle, and I used it to print out icing... We mapped out our route and on the weekend we celebrated #8, with a camping theme, gorp goody bags, complete with bandaids and flashlights, a campfire and kids running around in the dark... Perfection. Oh, and no storm. Thank goodness.

Found a Treasure Trove of old pics...

I found an old book of pictures from 30's to the 50's... so much inspiration, and I am looking to work in some different styles, to switch things up - and so, I did this little sketch as a character study for later... maybe I'll make her in 3D...

Summer is almost over...

and it is time to think about hibernating... well, not really. Here is a little piece of a bigger piece for a book that is coming out in May 2014... by Red Robin Books.

copyright 2013 Peggy Collins

The Children's Illustrators' Studio: MASH UP - Christine Tripp & Peggy Collins

The Children's Illustrators' Studio: MASH UP - Christine Tripp & Peggy Collins: S pecial thanks this week's participants, Christine and Peggy - for taking on the fourth round of the SCBWI Author/Illustrator MASH ...

Bears! Bears! Bears!

I've been working On some character design for a new book I'll be doing with red robin books, and I've gone through several renditions, to find the cutest bear I can... This little guy did not make the cut, but I still think he is super cute... However, the frontrunner is awfully cuddly too... But I can't share him, just yet.