Henry the Horse: Illustrations 8, 9 & 10

This is the illustrations for verses 8,9 & 10 for Henry the Horse.

Verse: 8 - A look at the cottage which is on fire

Verse 9: Henry trying to get out of the barn - The black smoke bringing tears to his eyes

Verse 10: Henry Galloping over the fence to go and get help for Farmer Jones and his Family.

Henry the Horse: Illustration 6 & 7

These are the illustrations for verses 6 & 7. I'm very pleased with how the illustrations are progressing. I care very much about the story, and I'm trying to capture the emotions Henry would be feeling.

Verse 6: Henry noticing a light under the stable door:

Verse 7: Henry looking at the cottage on fire:

Henry the Horse: Illustration 5

This is the illustration for verse 5 - Eric wanted the hay to look as realistic as possible. I  found this quite a challenge as I wanted to make sure that the overall style of the book is consistent. I think this picture now has the right balance of realistic and cartoon styles.

Verse 5 - Henry having a rest in his barn

Henry the Horse: Illustration's so far

The Henry the Horse project is going well. There will be 17 pics in the story altogether, and I also need to come up with a front cover. These are the 4 Illustration's I have so far. The author Eric Pullin is very pleased with how the pics are progressing, and of the way Henry looks.

Verse 1: Henry having a rest

Verse 2: Henry doing his daily delivery of milk

Verse 3: Henry thinking about his younger days

Verse 4: Henry in his barn after a long day's work - he wishes he could be a racehorse again

Henry the Horse

I'm really excited to be working on a project illustrating a childern's book called Henry the Horse. I started this project back in 2008, and created a series of 17 illustrations calaborating with author Eric Pullin. It's a story which has remained in my heart, and I'm very pleased to be updating some of the existing illustrations, and were hoping to try and get the book published for the Kindle at some point in the future.

Before this can happen there is a lot of things that need to be improved on. Eric and I had a long conversation today on the things that need to be fixed, and I'm really excited to get stuck into this while looking for work.

I'll be posting updates on this project soon. For now, I'll let you have a taste of a few of the existing illustrations. The colour of the Henry will be getting changed to black with some grey highlights.


Original Image for Verse 1 - Some tweaks to make in terms of taking the tail away and changing the colour on Henry

Original Image for verse 7 - Just the colour to change here