Four scenes of a red-haired girl in denim dungarees with two cats: reading on a window seat, walking a garden path with a basket, mixing in a kitchen, and reading in a blanket den. — Finished artwork: a day of small comforts shared with two cats.

Children's Book Illustration

Curly Days, A Story About Cats and Cosy Adventures

Created by HMD Publishing Illustration Studio

Explore Curly Days, a hand-drawn children's book illustration concept following a girl and her two cats through reading, garden, kitchen and den scenes.

The girl reads on a sunlit window seat with a tuxedo cat curled against her and a grey cat asleep nearby, carries a basket down a garden path with both cats following, stirs a bowl in a bright kitchen under a watchful stare, then reads by lantern light inside a den strung with small lights. Her red-striped top and denim dungarees anchor every scene. The supporting sheets add turnarounds for both cats, seven expressions, five outfits and a six-panel storyboard.

Project: Illustration concept
Theme: Animal & Anthropomorphic Characters
Genre: Picture book
Production method: Hand-drawn
Portfolio category: Children's Books
Deliverables shown: Final artwork
Character design
Sketch development

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