Animal Colouring Book - Part 1

In the last 6 months, I've spent more time drawing and trying to create projects for myself. So as I enjoy drawing animals, I decided to make an Animal A to Z colouring book for my friend's daughter.

I started the process by working out a list of animals, this is what I came up with:

A - Aardvark                         N - Nightingale   
B - Bear                                O - Owl
C - Cat                                  P - Peacock
D - Donkey                            Q - Quail
E -  Elephant                          R - Rabbit
F - Flamingo                           S - Squirrel 
G - Giraffe                            T - Tortoise
H - Hedgehog                         U - Umbrella Bird
I - Iguana                               V - Vulture
J - Jellyfish                            W - Whale
K - Kangaroo                          X - X-Ray Tetras
L - Lemur                               Y - Yak

M - Magpies                           Z - Zebra

 

I ended up with a pile of illustrations.

 

As I looked through the animals, I decided some of the pictures would look better with more of a background.

 

So in the progress of getting the pictures finished, I started looking at typefaces and at first I tried this. 

However it didn't have the right feel, so I ended up tracing around a typeface, to make it more hand drawn and friendly. 

During this process, I decided to start screen printing again. I thought the elephant and the whale would make good three colour prints. The first print I made was the whale, but as I was using an old screen, you could see ghosts from previous prints, so I ended up buying a new screen. 

 The new screen helped and the whale looks a lot better

 Next up was the elephant, but I decided to be a bit more playful with colour of the elephant. 

Now my room is surrounded with cute animals. Next step is to sort out the layout........