Hello and Welcome!My name is Kelsi Lees and I am a children’s picture book illustrator and freelance artist. I love bringing ideas to life in a way that is suitable for my young target audience.
My main focus within my illustration work is animals, stemming from mu love for nature and wildlife. I take inspiration from everyday life and my involvement in different animal rescues over the years, including 4 ducklings!
My first illustrated picture book is That’s My Dottie which the illustrations you are looking at belong to.
Winner of the Illustration Achievement Award 2024.
That’s My DottieChildren’s Picture Book2024 That’s My Dottie is my first children’s picture book that is fully written and illustrated by myself. I worked alongside my Grandad to write this story, taking massive inspiration from a duckling we rescued in 2020.
Dottie, the rescue duckling, is the main character of the story, as he plans a birthday party for his mum.
This picture book was sketched by hand from a range of primary photographs, before being digitally illustrated in Photoshop.
Shop my book here for £8.99 plus free p&p.
Spot IllustrationsSketchbook Ideas2024 Here are a few different illustrations that I have recently created. These include a piece from ‘Dino’s at the Fair’ and a piece from the
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storytellingjune2024 challenge.
These pieces were both created digitally.
Inside My SketchbookTraditional & Digital Sketches2022-2024 These sketches are all taken from the last few years of work. They vary in traditional and digital media. I have also added in a few of my graphite realism pieces, which stem from my business, to demostrate my abilities further. I often work on graphite pet portraits and wildlife art, occasionaly dabbling into human portraiture as well.
Some of these sketches stem from the initial ideas of That’s My Dottie, my first children’s book.