Author Archive > David
Ta-Da!
At last! I’ve finally got around to starting my own blog: www.davidmelling.co.uk/blog Which means as well as posting stuff like this mad eye-balled idiot here on Trapped By Monsters… I might post stuff like this little chap… [...]
WOLF!
It has to be said I’m a slow reader…and my reading pile is waaay to high. So it’s taken me a while to get to WOLF by Tommy Donbavand. I’m happy to report that as we share the same dim, damp and depressing conditions here in the cave I get first dibs on any signed [...]
THE TOTALLY TERRIFYING THREE!
Look out for my STONKING new picture book and tell your CHUMS to SKIDADDLE down to your local bookshop and get one! (Well, there’s three words I’m not sure I’ve ever used before – strange I should do so now – can you guess what they are?
You hum it, I’ll play it.
I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks so will leave you with this piece of a/w I did today for a friend. A sort of request. I’m not sure what it means, but it’ll play me out as I pack my bag and jump on a plane. Of course, when I say [...]
Angel vs Demon
I recently started a new sketchbook with this image. Within pages this happened. It wasn’t long before all hell broke loose. There’s a story in this somewhere. I like drawing these buffoons. Watch this space…
King Gobbledegook
Now I’m very critical when it comes to pretty much anything I produce. There is always something I wish I had done better. Always. But sometimes I get close to where I was heading (in my mind), when I began the work. This illustration shows King Gobbledegook from the book The Tale of Jack Frost. Here [...]
Don’t judge a book by its cover (take a look inside as well).
I was leafing through an old sketchbook the other day and came across this sketch of Magpie, one of the characters from my picture book The Ghost Library. For some reason it triggered a comment made to me by a parent as I sat in a bookshop signing copies of the book at an event. [...]
