Daniel Rodgers

This is my second study on the snow theme. This time I decided to try a pinkish light at sunset. Digital painting, Pshop

Environment study done for computer game. I'm working out how to best depict snow and how it looks under a variety of lighting condition...

This is my first illustration using my new digital tablet. Digital painting isn't quite how I imagined. In some ways its more tricky bec...

This is the development work for the silver turtle emblem to go on the aeroplane. I wanted to create a humorous character reminiscent of pla...

These are development sketches for a story I am illustrating. Basically, its about a plane built by an inventor and his adventurous children...

Some very early development sketches for a logo character I am doing for my friend's restaurant in Shanghai. At the moment we are just t...

It was a sunny summer's day and as I looked out the kitchen window I noticed the beautiful way the sunlight caught the golden yellow flo...

A quick sketch of the sky from my studio window. Oil on canvas board. 12x10in

The very first edition of Spelling Magic hits the shelves. For those that are wondering - I fully illustrated and designed the layout of th...

The roses have come out in my back garden and so I spent some time sketching them in watercolours and acrylics. The shape of a rose is both ...

This is a portrait I painted of my wife's sister. She is Chinese. The painting is quite large - 60x70cm, oil on canvas. I was looking t...

Thought I'd have a go at some manga style artwork. I just went straight into it with very little drawing and an idea in my head of what ...

Illustration for a Russian fairytale where Vlad and Lev first confront the Great Bear and provoke him into charging the Tsar's palace. I...

Children's book illustration about the wild imagination of Roald Dahl. Yellow suits him! I'm quite excited because the Spelling Magi...

Children's book illustration for Spelling Magic. I was going for a bright and colourful illustration here full of interesting details an...

I reworked the Giant Under the Snow drawing on vellum paper using graphite and prismapencil. Hopefully I can go on to develop this illustra...

Watercolour study of man sleeping. Watercolour on paper, 28 x18cm

This is a preparation drawing for an illustration for a book titled 'The Giant Under the Snow.' It's one of the first drawings I...

Painted when I was particularly inspired by the light catching some blooms. Watercolour on textured paper. 33.5x42cm

Vignette illustration from Spelling Magic. I was trying for a clumsy Tarzan type - this illustration had to sit opposite one with gorillas i...

I painted this little picture on a sunny day on summer. Whenever I look at it I am reminded of a Famous Five adventure, perhaps because of t...

Watercolour sketch (done some time ago!)

Oil on board 60x40cm

This painting illustrates a rhyme about a girl who ate oranges, and a boy who ate too many eggs. Oil on board 30 x 40 cm

Figure study Pencil on paper. 21 x 30 cm

Another illustration from Spelling Magic. Oil on canvas 40x60cm

This illustration was done to illustrate a rhyme about mice living in a cracked egg. I got my hands sticky investigating exactly what a crac...

This is a vignette illustration from the Spelling Magic series. I painted this oil on board. I wanted a pure white background so that it wou...

See the former things have taken place, and new things I declare. Before they spring into being I announce them to you. Isaiah 42:9 I'm...

I did this vignette illustration some time ago. It goes alongside a Cornish myth about a woman who married a giant, who then, accidentally, ...