kids week today is all about characters, and how they can be placed on a variety of products. first up its one of the UK's top childrens programmes charlie & lola illustrated by the wonderful lauren child. i love the sketchy style of line mixed with flat colour, photographs, and my favourite bit, patterns. lauren uses a computer for a lot of her work. making backgrounds from all sorts of elements – photographs, collages etc before superimposing the figures which are drawn in pencil.next she scans the pencil drawing, cleans up the lines, and prints it out in black onto cartridge paper so she can continue to work on it with paints, collage etc. apart from the really cute tv show and books there are tons of great charlie & lola products all available here at pink milk.
Real Nice Blog, I love it, You have my appreciation for doing such a nice job.
ReplyDeleteI've been swamped with writing work this week, so haven't been checking your blog as often as usual. Big treat for me this morning, then, when I snatched a mo' to go through all your kids' design posts. Aargh! No more writing, please! I want to draw!!
ReplyDeleteAs usual, thanks for your brilliant blog!
oh i love Lauren Child! she makes me want to be a kid again :)
ReplyDeleteI adore Lola and Charlie. They are hard to find here, except for a handful of books. Wish we had the TV show in Canada.
ReplyDeleteThis is just great! :)
ReplyDeleteOnly last week, while visiting my niece, I saw Lola and Charly for the first time in TV. And I thought - hey, this is wunderful illustrated, I've got to find out who did it ... and then I forgot ... until now.
So, thanks a lot for doing so much research and always finding great and colorful stuff!
oh this blog just gets better all the time - so much inspiration in one place - thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteWe love Charlie & Lola in our house - me more so than the kids!!!! Your blog is a delight to read.
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ReplyDeleteMark from pinkmilk.co.uk here. thanks for the mention on the Charlie and Lola merch. We started the company in April last year when our little girl (who is mad on C&L) wanted some goodies and we couldn't find them online - at least not all in the same place. So, we went away and created that place! It's not just a business for us, we really do love Charlie and Lola and really enjoy the products. The beeb have so far licensed only very good quality merch.
One thing I'd say is that if you are after the books, go for the Orchard originals rather than the more common Puffin versions derived from the TV show. The Orchard ones are much better. They are bigger, brighter, bolder - just beautiful. That's not even a pitch - we sell mostly Puffin ones!
Oh we LOVE Charlie and Lola! Thanks so much for sharing this site- I can see my daughter's 6th birthday party with this fun stuff! Such a sweet, beatiful show and all these things look great.
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