The Tale of Herbie Hiccup

A few months back, Glenda Sims approached me about illustrating a manuscript her mother, Genevieve Gelles had written, called ‘Herbie Hic…up’. She had 12 pages of drawings and story and was keen to get her mothers book published. Lured with the promise of complete creative freedom, I couldn’t help but say yes! Secretly, I’ve always wanted to illustrate a children’s book, and with having 2 children myself, I’m exposed to all sorts of lovely children’s books such as those by Oliver Jeffers (a big influence).

So, this could be madness - a ridiculous burden to add the that of the project itself, but I’ll be using this Tumblr blog to document the process. I’ll leave Glenda to explain the back story, but I’ll be documenting the decisions I make along the way.

Here we go!