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Pages 6 and 7 from The Cleaning Station picture book

December 13, 2018 By Stuart Green in art, artwork, Illustration, pencil, Photoshop, Photoshop brush, Photoshop brushes, picture book, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour No Comments Tags: art, artwork, Illustration, pencil, Photoshop, Photoshop brushes, picture book, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour

I’m working my way through the twenty odd illustrations from my picture book; The Cleaning Station. The illustration below is from pages 6 and 7.

The tiny fish on the left is called a “Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse“. The larger, uglier fish on the right is called a “Potato Grouper“, or “Potato Cod” because of it’s resemblance to a large potato. It can grow to 2.5m in length. So that would be a rather large potato.

A close up of the two fish having a conversation. Fish can be quite erudite sometimes.

Shark watercolour sketch

March 24, 2018 By Stuart Green in drawings, Illustration, moleskine, pencil, picture book, sketchbooks, Sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour No Comments Tags: drawing, Illustration, pencil, picture book, Shark, sketch, sketchbook, sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour

A Shark sketch with a bit of watercolour.

Another character to appear in my picture book; The Cleaning Station.

Not sure what type of shark. Looks slightly angry anyway.

Various fish sketches

March 21, 2018 By Stuart Green in drawings, Illustration, moleskine, pencil, picture book, sketchbooks, Sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station No Comments Tags: drawing, fish, Illustration, picture book, sketch, sketchbook, sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station

A few fish sketches, drawn in my Moleskine sketchbook.

A bit of prep. work for my picture book; The Cleaning Station.

Puffer Fish watercolour sketch

March 19, 2018 By Stuart Green in character sketch, drawings, Illustration, moleskine, pencil, picture book, sketchbooks, Sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour No Comments Tags: character sketch, drawing, Illustration, pencil, picture book, Puffer Fish, sketch, sketchbook, sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolor, watercolour

A quick Puffer Fish watercolour sketch. Another character to appear in my picture book; The Cleaning Station.

Loggerhead sea turtle sketch

March 15, 2018 By Stuart Green in character sketch, drawings, Illustration, moleskine, pencil, picture book, sketchbooks, Sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour No Comments Tags: character sketch, drawing, Illustration, Loggerhead sea turtle, pencil, picture book, sketch, sketchbook, sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour

A Loggerhead sea turtle sketch created using coloured pencil and watercolour.

A sea creature to feature in my picture book; The Cleaning Station.

I think he needs a thorough clean…

Moorish idol fish illustration

February 25, 2018 By Stuart Green in art, artwork, drawings, Illustration, moleskine, pencil, sketchbooks, Sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour No Comments Tags: art, artwork, Illustration, Moorish idol fish, pencil, picture book, sketchbook, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolor, watercolour

A Moorish idol fish (Zanclus cornutus) illustration from my moleskine sketchbook. Drawn in pencil, with added watercolour.

A fish that may feature in my picture book; The Cleaning Station.

Watercolour sketches of fish for a picture book project…

February 16, 2018 By Stuart Green in art, artwork, character, character art, character sketch, Illustration, moleskine, pencil, picture book, sketchbooks, Sketches, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour No Comments Tags: art, artwork, character sketch, Illustration, picture book, sketch, sketchbook, stuart Green, The Cleaning Station, watercolour

Two watercolour character sketches for a picture book project I’m working on called ‘The Cleaning Station‘.

First a tiny character called a Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse fish (bit of a mouthful, maybe literally?). Living somewhere nice and warm, maybe a coral reef in the Pacific. Rather than a goldfish bowl…Drawn in pencil, painted in watercolour, with added coloured pencil for detail. Just a sketchbook sketch.

Second a very large fish called a Potato Cod, or Grouper. These can grow rather large. I think it’s called a Potato Cod because it possibly resembles a potato, rather than being a potato eater. As we’ll see it rather likes the taste of other fish.

Here he is. A rather ugly sort. Again drawn in pencil, painted in watercolour with added colour pencil for detail.

I think I still need to work on the colours and design. Will post more sketches of these two soon…