Helen Dodsworth Illustration
Thackray Medical Museum Leeds: I was commissioned to illustrate their 'Feel Good Friends' characters, based on different medical professions, for their new children's play area called Sparks! I developed the character designs with the museum staff team and they were named by a local nursery group.
The museum's new soft play area is based on a trip through the digestive system. I designed the face for the doorway and illustrated a food bolus (piece of chewed food) on it's journey through the digestive system.
Soft play digestive system
A food bolus (piece of chewed food)on it's journey through the digestive system
saliva in the mouth
bile in the stomach
oesophagus
villi of the small intestine
faeces
Northern Art Trail Xmas Window Display for Tameside Council: Glittery Cat Angels
Portland Basin Museum Tameside: I created some 'how to draw' children's activity pages to celebrate Dippy the Dinosaur on tour arriving in Tameside, and a range of other activity pages, for children to be able to interact with the musuem online drawing the covid lockdowns.
Comic Zine of the B Monster Movie film 'Creature from the Haunted Sea: I made this quick concertina zine as part of a comic making workshop I ran.
Portland Basin Museum and the Art Council England: Tameside council was awarded some money to make some children's activity packs to be handed out free at food banks, or available to buy for £1 at the musuem, whilst covid restrictions meant all musuem activities had to be cancelled. I designed the templates for each activity, and the Make, Do and Play logo.
Etsy shop: These are a few of the prints, cards and stickers I have in my etsy shop.
Click on the SHOP section at the top of my website for the link to my online shop.
Mummy and me bake (DK Books):
I illustrated little cartoons to accompany the text and images for this cookbook.
Essex Libraries and Arts Council England: Alice in Wonderland I was commissioned to create some illustrations for Essex Libraries (funded by Arts Council England). My illustrations were put on display across libraries in Essex to make a Wonderland trail as part of their Down the rabbit hole event to celebrate the 150yr anniversary of Alice in Wonderland.
Wild in Art: The Big Hoot Birmingham. I was chosen to design and paint a large owl sculpture as part of an arts trail around Birmingham. My design was inspired by the fact the postage stamp was created in Birmingham, and the stamps all feature images connected to the city.
My Leeds . A few illustrations from a personal project about my home town.
DK Books (Penguin Books). A selection of my pages from the 'Doodlepedia'and 'Factivity' ranges of children's educational activity books.
Children's Nonsense Poems. Selection of monoprints from my collection of Nonsense Poems for children by Edward Lear and Hilaire Belloc
Amelia's Anthology of Illustration: Featuring Renewable Technologies to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change: A selection of my pages from this book.
