illustration friday: monster

A while back I was contacted by an editor at Lark Books to submit a couple plush/fabric designs for consideration in a book to be published this October/November. I sent in a spec sheet for these girls and one for a super cute little monster named Batty Cat Bubbles. Both were accepted and I was asked to do a modified version of my Alyce and Chessie dolls as well. I designed the dolls, wrote the patterns, made finished versions of each and shipped them to the publisher. As it turned out, I was the only artist to submit projects that required painting the doll forms and it was decided that it might be considered a more difficult project, etc. etc. etc. My poor siamese triplets and Alyce and Chessie didn't make the final cut! I was asked if I could redo the triplets all in fabric and I would've loved to if it hadn't come up right smack dab in the middle of December. I may still do it, I can see the possiblities. Anyhoo, here are the girls "in the flesh" as it were:



And just so she doesn't feel left out, here's Alyce too: