What Football Job Can You Do? Illustrations for a non-fiction book by Emma Juhasz for Mighty Shepherd Publishing

 My most recent illustration commission has been published!

What Football Job Can You Do? is the third in a series of non-fiction fully illustrated books for children aged six-years-old upwards. The series aims to educate children about jobs they might like to do when they're adults. Other books in the series are What do Vets do? and What do Construction Workers do?

What Football Job Can You Do? has 52 pages of: information about many different kinds of jobs in football; interesting facts about football; information about finding work in football in the UK and some fun activities. It was written by Emma Juhasz and published by Mighty Shepherd Publishing

What Football Job can you do? can be bought online on at EmmaJuhasz.com

If you'd like to know more about What Football Job Can You Do? and other books in the series contact Emma Juhasz. What Football Job Can You Do? is published by Mighty Shepherd.

What do Construction Workers do? Illustrations for a non-fiction book by Emma Juhasz for Mighty Shepherd Publishing

Front cover for What do Construction Workers do?

What do Construction Workers do? is the second in a series of non-fiction fully illustrated books for children aged six-years-old upwards. The series aims to educate children about jobs they might like to do when they are adults. The first book was What do Vets do? and more books are planned.

What do Construction Workers do? has 48 pages of: information about many different kinds of construction work and the equipment used; interesting facts about buildings and construction; information about finding work in construction in the UK and some fun activities. It was written by Emma Juhasz and published by Mighty Shepherd Publishing.

What Do Construction Workers Do? can be bought online on at EmmaJuhasz.com

If you'd like to know more about What Do Construction Workers Do? and other books in the series contact Emma Juhasz. What Do Construction Workers Do? is published by Mighty Shepherd.

Tottenham's Trojan Horse? Book

'Tottenham's Trojan Horse?' is available at Housmans Bookshop and Big Cartel.

Dave Morris interviewed on BBC Radio London. Illustration from 'Tottenham's Trojan Horse'.

Tottenham's Trojan Horse? is based on one of the case studies in Mark Panton's doctoral thesis about stadium-led regeneration.

I helped Mark edit his thesis and during this process we had many conversations about a community in High Road West, Tottenham. Their homes and businesses may be demolished to clear space for a fans' walkway from White Hart Lane train station to the entrance of the new Tottenham Hotspur Football Club stadium and they have joined together to challenge the proposals.

Mark and I decided to create a book that would use his research to tell the story of how the fans' walkway proposals came about, show the impact on the people affected by it and what they are doing in response. The best way to do this, we felt, was to use a comic format, base it around dialogue from interviews and make it accessible to a general audience 14-years-old upwards.

The book was published in February 2018, there have been two print runs and copies have gone to people in 8 countries. It has won an award and has been featured in a number of articles and interviews.

Please visit tottenhamstrojanhorse.blogspot.com for more information including how to buy the book or read it for free. "Tottenham's Trojan Horse?" is not available on Amazon.

Non-fiction graphic novel "Tottenham's Trojan Horse? A Tale of Stadium-led Regeneration in North London"

About the book:

In 2010 Haringey Council in London granted planning permission to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for a new stadium and other linked developments. In 2012 Haringey unveiled regeneration plans for the borough that included demolition of homes and businesses to make way for a proposed fan’s walkway from a relocated train station to the site of the new stadium. A process that was already challenging for the football club, the council and the local community now became tortuous. Those most affected by the proposals felt left out of the decision making and had to find a voice.

The floor of my workroom.

In the next week or so we'll have a draft of "Tottenham's Trojan Horse?" ready. All text will be in place and will have been edited several times but the drawings are either rough pencil sketches or photos that I'm using as placeholders. Before going any further we're going to show it to others for their input. This is to make sure the book will be factually correct and easy to understand. The story is taken from one of Dr Mark Panton's case studies in his doctoral thesis, rewritten so as to be accessible to academics and non-academics 14-years-old upwards.

A rough sketch of Boris Johnson.

We have started up a blog and a Facebook page to post further progress of the book but please contact me if you have any questions. The book will be published in early 2018.

An illustration for the cover of a non-fiction book about risk management

One of the most enjoyable aspects of being a freelance illustrator, in my experience, is the variety of the work. Risk management is a new topic for me!

The illustration for the cover of Evgueni Ivantsov's book Heads or Tails combined pencil drawing, digital colour, vector based illustration (the scales) plus coin artwork downloaded from the US mint website. All elements were combined together using a bit of Photoshop magic.

More of my pencil drawings and vector based illustrations are in the Illustration Styles part of this blog.