Talk with children's book illustrator Paul Hess.

A few weeks ago now. Children's book illustrator Paul Hess came into the studio to have a chat with the class about what it is like to work in the industry and having an agent etc.
The talk was very informative and interesting to be actually told what it is like to be working as a professional from a professional.
He also brought with him a few of his books for us to have a look at, one was called 'Nail Soup' and one was his peter pan pop up book that he actually said had sold out and he made quite a lot of money from it, enough in fact to have a year out from working.
Another thing he brought was a portfolio of his work and showed us the process and techniques he uses in his work, he works mainly in watercolours but says that he fancies trying new things as he has been doing that for quite a while. He told us that he had been trying out digital painting more recently.
He also showed us that when the work is sent in to a client for a book or something, sometimes the quality of it doesn't stay the same and sometimes they could end up filling something in by taking it from another one of your previous paintings, for example a background etc. without mentioning it to you first.
Here are a few examples of Paul Hess's work...