Studio Snippets - Finally finishing my tiny sketchbook 🎉 (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

I hope you're well and have been having a lovely March, whether you're feeling the warmth of early spring or the cool air of autumn. I love the changing of the seasons, there's so much fresh energy and it always feels like a gentle reminder of time passing.

I've been so busy drawing that I barely noticed that it was the middle of March! I just completed all of the colour drawings for a picture book so that has taken most of my time and energy this past week while I got that finalised.

I can't show you the pages but it was a lovely book to draw (I'll be able to show you later in the year), and now I've sent all 12 spreads to my publisher to review. If you're interested in the picture book publishing process just leave a comment below and we can do a Q&A, or send me a DM if you'd prefer me to answer some questions privately 🥰

In other fun news, I finally finished a sketchbook! I often get new ones before I fully finish my old ones, but I only had a handful of pages left in my tiny sketchbook so I decided it was time to actually complete it.

I've filmed a full sketchbook tour video (my first one ever I think?) that Dan is editing as I write this, so that'll be on my YouTube channel in the next day or two.

I've really loved illustrating in this tiny book, it's the perfect size to be able to doodle silly ideas or fill a page quite quickly, so even if I only have 15 minutes I know I'll be able to draw something simple in it.

And somewhere in between all that I managed to update my banner for my shops and my YouTube channel. I seem to have adopted worms as a permanent part of my style so I made them a feature of the banner, what do you think? I might update the colours, but I'll see how it feels for a while.

Now that I've finished the picture book spreads for my big deadline, I'm going to jump into this month's curriculum challenge which I'm hoping to film tomorrow!

Also, I've been asking Beautiful Bluebells whether I should bring back the Illustration Club, because I'm really enjoying the curriculum but kind of miss sharing a silly prompt for us all to draw each month, so I'm thinking of bringing that back or a new version of it. Let me know if you have any thoughts 😊

What have you been up to lately? Are you working on any creative projects?

💖 Mimi

PS. I drew a duck.