Sneak Peek from the Upcoming "10 Explorers who Changed the World"

We've been teasing you for over a year now about these mysterious books we've been working on, but as the release date approaches we can finally begin to show you a few images from the upcoming book "10 Explorers who Changed the World". This is the first in a new and exciting series for younger readers. Due to be released on the 4th August 2008 by Kingfisher, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Books, this new and innovative series of books will use Cool Surface's animated art style to attract more reluctant readers and teach History in an exciting and engaging way. Here's a glimpse of Magellan's employee appraisal system...


For more information about the books, visit www.panmacmillan.co.uk

Summer's here!

Here's our latest commission from Imagine Publishing. A summer themed tutorial imaginatively titled "Summer". If you want to find out how we created this image using a variety of textures from real-life hair to a pair of bikini bottoms, then pick up a copy of Advanced Photoshop Magazine issue 45, on the shelves now! There are also some of our very own custom brushes supplied on the accompanying CD. What more could you ask for?!

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Shiny Pink Top!

This lovely lady was drawn for a limited series of promotional mini-prints that Sarah and I made. For lack of a better title, we call this one "Shiny Pink Top"!

Have fun,
David

Sneak Peak!

After a very long 3 weeks without having my own computer to use (my laptop's video card fried itself!) I'm finally back online with a brand new PC! (I can't tell you how much I've missed using my own setup, borrowing Sarah's system and checking email remotely just wasn't the same!) If you've emailed me over the last 3 weeks and haven't heard from me, that's why! I'll be in touch soon, promise.

Anyway, before I get to my mountain of emails, here's a sneak peak of an upcoming magazine commission. We don't normally show you images from magazines before they see print, but the final image went in a very different direction from this initial concept sketch, so we thought we'd share it with you to show how differently the colour scheme and painting style could've been...

We'll post the actual image when it's published later this month.

Have fun,
David