I am an aspiring children's book illustrator who is also interested in making comics, book covers and other sequential illustrations in my career. I like to make colourful, narrative-heavy illustrations, often including expressive characters. My current favourite material to use is watercolour pencils, which I sometimes combine with other things such as fine liner outlines or paper cut.
Rosie Cockrell
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An illustration for social media drawn with just two colours.
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The first illustration in a sequential narrative of an elderly couple taking care of their garden. It is inspired by my real neighbours.
The second illustration indicating somebody has arrived in the garden.
The last illustration where the grandchildren have arrived for a surprise visit.
A book cover design of Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah which I submitted to the Penguin Random House Student Design Award.
The first section of a mock up of a sequential narrative on a bedroom wall. Physically, this is presented as a concertina.
The second part of my concertina showing the character following a map by controlling plants with his superpowers.
The design of the final wall.
The full mock up presented as a concertina with a repeating brick pattern on the back. The room is designed so the viewer can start clockwise from any wall and the narrative should still make sense.
A book cover design for Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.
A comic inspired by the way I react to different people texting me.
A comic about a dad who gets progressively more annoyed as he waits for his children to get ready for a day out.
The first double page in my picture book about two half-Japanese and half-English five-year-old girls comparing their experiences of being mixed-race. It is partly based on my own experiences.
The characters comparing their bedrooms.
The characters bathing in a Japanese bath.
The characters explaining the negative ways they were treated as mixed-race children.
The characters excited at the prospect of experiencing school together.
A selection of drawings from my drawing journal. I drew one drawing a day, five minutes for each one. This was research for my children's book about being mixed-race. It was also an experiment to help loosen and develop my drawing style.
Rosie Cockrell
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