Owlpoo exhibited at the Dubai Character and Licensing Show!

Owlpoo exhibited at the Dubai Character and Licensing Show!
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October 27th-29th was a very important date for Owlpoo, as I was able to exhibit my website and show my work to all visitors. Thanks to eye of Dubai, an online portal for everything Dubai, I was given my own space and large TV screen to show Owlpoo on big screen.

It was a very sucessful event which was greatly receieved and a lot of interest was formed. Owlpoo made numerous new contacts, clients and business opportunites.

Owlpoo will shortly be working very closely with schools and now we are working constantly to create Owlpoo into education software for children.

With new inspiration, new stories will be added soon. There will also be an option to translate the stories into arabic and have an audio feature.

See below, a new set of desert character have been created. These will eventually be stories promoting wildlife in the UAE. These are organic illustrations showing the gecko, caracal, camel and falcon.

Owlpoo can't wait for next Dubai Character and Licensing show in 2010!




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Organic Illustration

Dubai Desert Scene - Owlpoo.com

Desert Mural

Over the hot summer months of Ramadan, I painted a Dubai Desert Scene on the wall of our bedroom (which is soon to be demolished!)

This scene depicts two arab men relaxing in the desert, playing music, eating arabic food and being surrounded by all of UAE's wildlife. The oasis contains flamingo's annd arabic leapards drinking from the pool.

Murals are an area that I plan to get into. I'd love the opportunity to do more, so if you're a nursery or school in Dubai wanting a scene, or anything creative on your walls, I'd be happy to get involved. I will even approach private homes, so why not provide your child with a unique bedroom wall which will delight eyes of all ages.

See below of images of the mural, any questions or queries contact me via the website.

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Organic Illustration

Hermit in the heat!

The heat has been intolerable these last few months! With 40 + degrees meaning a short walk to the local shop turns into an all mighty sweat, I've transformed into an indoor hermit!

Owlpoo is in the process of business plan writing.Very soon the website will undergo further changes, and the stories will be part of a school incentive scheme program designed to persuade children to read. Features will include unlockable codes on books, characters you can print out and create and much more. Watch this space!

I've been doing a lot of research on Children's Publishing, I picked up this AMAZING book from Amazon called "Writing with Pictures" by Uri Shulevitz. It has such invaluabe advice for putting together your story/picture book. Methods such as storyboarding, creating a dummy book, page and text layout are all covered wonderfully! My hours before bedtime are engrossed with trying to cram in as much new information as I can from this masterpiece of a book!

I'm delighted to be working with Anne Millen and providing the illustrations for her story. Without giving too much away, it's a cleverly written manuscript describing the cycle of a hermit crab. I've come up with a very rough storyboard and sketches of zoeas (baby crabs!) and the character choosing it's shell! Will post full colour spreads soon.

For a side project, I've started painting a mural in James' room! The villa is soon to be demolished, and so many paintable walls are going to be turned to rubble. :( I've started creating a Desert scene featuring two Arabic men enjoying each others company surrounded by wildlife. It's just one of many murals that I aim to create as part of my portfolio. If anyone in the UAE would like a mural for their nursery or school, then give me a shout!

That's all for now!
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