It’s a bit ghoulish this drawing but we are approaching Halloween. I’ve mentioned before I’m collaborating on a promotional film for a new picture book edition of Hansel and Gretel and that I’m producing models to be used in the film. I’m sketching out a few ideas at the moment for some more models I’ll make when I get back to my work table after a visit to the UK. This drawing is of a tunnel of poisonous vines, seething with foetid malice, but with a vision of a sunny glade on the other side beckoning the lost and hungry.  I’m looking forward to having a go at making it when I get back, working out the technical challenges and how to make it look really poisonous! I’m away in the UK for over two weeks, travelling every few days so I won’t take much more than some paper and pencils but I’ll work on my model designs when I’m away. 

I’ll post more on the development of the book and the promo film in the coming weeks, but for now, here’s a link to Clive’s Artlog and a post about who, or what Is lurking in that cottage in the distance – you really, really don’t want to go there. Clive is conjuring a spectacularly horrible witch in his brilliant drawings for the book, one of the great horror villains!