• MOTHER'S DAY GINGERS •

• MOTHER'S DAY GINGERS •

Look out for these cute Gingerbread characters in your local Morrisons supermarket this week. Following last months Valentines promotion Mr Ginger is back and this time he's brought his mum!

At first I thought of trying to model the icing on mums head in Form Z, my 3D programme. But I'm not such an expert with it and I could foresee lots of trial and error, so opted for plasticene modelling instead.

Once it had been re-coloured, re-sized and placed onto the ginger head I knew I'd made the right decision. The flower needed to look like rolled out icing and this simple version was pure artwork, light and shade created with the tools at hand in Photoshop.

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•HAPPY VALENTINES DAY •

•HAPPY VALENTINES DAY •

Here's the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day, with a delicious pair of Gingerbread characters illustrated by Hot Frog. This campaign runs through most stores and ties in with a whole host of products from flowers and chocolates, of course, to bakery,confectionary and stationary.

These 2 characters first appeared on film in the christmas promotion featuring Ant and Dec, and they proved so popular and successful that Morrison's thought it cool to have them illustrated so as to run them throughout the year. So watch out for more.

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•WASHING POWDERS



•WASHING POWDERS
Now these two packs, done for the same client as the 3 below, were in luscious cmyk full colour, and so I could really go to town.
From photo reference of Jasmine taken 2 years ago outside our kitchen window, lilies from Switzerland, oranges shot in our back garden (not growing I hasten to add) I pieced together and re-illustrated these still life scenes.
During the 're-building' process, and before the illustration part begins, the images look dreadful but I've learned not to panic at this stage and keep forging ahead with Count Arthur Strong, Tom Brown's Schooldays and Harry Potter for company.
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•OLD YEAR / NEW YEAR



•OLD YEAR / NEW YEAR
Happy New Year to all. A little late I guess, but still January!
Plenty of work was done at the end of last year including a fantastic game called Discovery Garden for Forrest Pruzan in Seattle.
It afforded me some brilliant illustrations to complete, including the box cover, sides, inner box and gameboard.
Here's a section from the incredibly detailed game board and hopefully I'll post most of the other artwork up here too.
As I type this I have various jobs stacked up in the InTray - beer labels, greetings cards, cheese labels and another game.
It's promising to be an exciting year especially since it's a 'special' year for Hot Frog. But more on that later.
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FOREVER LADYBIRDS

























































































FRIENDS REVISITED
If you have ever logged onto my main website >hotfroggraphics.com< you might well have seen these little guys in the character section of my portfolio.
They were originally created for Asda's range of children's seed packs, commissioned by Elmwood.
I always felt that they had more potential as I really liked the results, and I feel that these are one of my strongest sets of illustrations to date, and judging by the enquiries and new commissions I receive, others share these views too.
I have started work developing them into a range of greetings cards and mini posters but the images you see here have been re-sized and adapted for a range of children's bedroom furniture.
They are BIG files, actual size high res illustrations for wardrobe doors and cabinets etc. They are going to make a wonderful set and you can see others in the range at >http://www.foreverfurniture.co.uk/acatalog/Junior_Designs.html<
where you can also catch my other set, Dolphins.
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