My design brief was to create a canvas of about A3 size containing the following things:

• Cars
• Stacking cups
• The moon
• Bubbles
• The Clangers
• Jigsaw – 2 to 6 pieces

Using blues and/or greens as the more prominent colours, a comic strip style (in part or whole) and some nice stylised typography.

I sketched out the text, using the jigsaw theme for the title, which is the name of the person the canvas is for. I listened and watched how toddlers explain the stacking cups game to sketchnote a short comic strip, listened to some ‘bubbles’ themed children’s songs to create the bubble motif on the right and then sketched a copy of The Clangers logo and one of the characters. Finally I sketched a copy of a car from Blaze and The Monster Machines.

I used, Muji pens, Berol fine black pens and some coloured Tombow brush pens to bring it to life. I then scanned it in to balance the layers using Adobe Photoshop to finalise the print.