I have always liked the idea of one day illustrating a children’s book. It was hoped that the wife (who knows some really long words) would put pen to paper and produce the next Harry Potter with myself painting my way through her story. The ultimate husband and wife team of children’s literature - it still could happen. In the meantime its always good to practice so taking a book off one of our cases I started to read a brief extract involving the space adventures of a couple of children. It mentioned guns which although not well described still had a feel of the old Flash Gordon about it. So researching classic ray gun models I drew up a couple of concepts.

Although they have an air of school boy doodle about them, the hand drawn look is very much in at the minute (just check out these hand drawn web designs here) and I like it.