Watts and Whiskerton: Sabotage at the Fete Cake Bake (book two) is publishing next month and I thought I'd show some of the character design sketches. I don't properly start work on character designs until I'm about to begin the final artwork, which feels a little late, but I like to get to know them in the roughs stage. By drawing them over and over again their personalities start to appear so I leave any final decisions until I'm done with this stage. Here are some of the sketches and final drawings.
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| Roughs stage |
This is Fleur Wheatley. She's a great baker and last year's winner.
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| Character design |
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| Fleur Wheatley in the book |
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| Character design |
Mrs 'Cookie' Cutter is the Whiskerton family's cook and she takes no nonsense.
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| Character design |
Whip Lightly competed in last year's Fete Bake but has yet to win the title.
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| Character design |
Ms Partridge is due to compete but is unable to attend. She gets her chance later on though.
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| Character design |
Mayor Dove is in charge of proceedings. Hopefully nothing will go wrong!
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| Final art in the book. |
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| Sketch |
When Ms Partridge fails to arrive Mr Dove, Mayor Dove's husband, is forced to compete.
But how will he do?
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This image was to help me keep track of how tall the characters were compared to everyone else.
I'm sure everything will run like clockwork at this year's fete bake, but if it doesn't we have two excellent detectives around.
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