Worry Monster

Finally, I'm getting round to posting some of my more recent stuff!  For my Diploma Project last year, I had my first ever attempt at creating a picturebook.  It was about a worry monster and I called it called "The Problem Pet".  As a worrier myself (that's putting it mildly, I feel anxious if I don't feel anxious sometimes...) I wrote this story as a message to children who might be prone to worrying themselves.

These were some sketchbook ideas I had about how the worry monster would look:

I am about to begin re-working the illustrations, but these spreads (from my original project) show just what a problem pet Neville (the worry monster) became...