Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Dusting down Bob

Further to yesterday's posting of the original Bob sketch, I've had a rummage through what images I have from earliest development of the show. This is still one of my favourites and is, as you see it here, on a sheet of A1 from a whopping old sketchbook I had. Again, as with the Bob sketch, this is my first submission for Bob's Building Yard and, as anyone who is aware of the show through having young kids, is pretty much the one that we ended up running with. Designing Bob was, on the whole, a bit of a dream whereby very little needed changing. Sure, Bob had to be tweaked, but that was no big. The yard was accepted as is, as was Pilchard the Cat (which I'll post later).

I was stoney broke at the time I did this artwork and couldn't afford a second sketchbook. I kid you not. As such, I used the back of this page to sketch another Bob design, that of Pilchard. Then, unaware of future value of said artwork, I set about cutting the Pilcard picture out of this page! I had to fax the image to my producer and couldn't be chewed with getting a copy of it- it was urgent. Bottom right you'll probably see where I started to cut through before stopping, thinking twice and fortunately seeing sense.

You'll also see here my first design submission of Scoop here. I went for a more bulldoggish, trapjawed character, with that whole underbite going on. As we played with the designs, this changed into a more faithful adaptation of a JCB. Bottom picture is of Bob's house in a little greater detail. Again, all pictures copyright HIT Entertainment PLC/Keith Chapman.

9 comments:

Gordon Fraser said...

These are piggun great! I luv early sketches me!

dragonhead said...

(I love the early sketches stuff too.)

"anyone who is aware of the show through having young kids" lol who says you have to have kids to watch this stuff. :) (though I'm more of a Blue's Clues person. And yes, I am a college student that watches Blue's Clues between classes.)

Watched an episode of Bob this morning and I must say, he probably would probably have been scarry to kids with a moustache.
(oh, and the image link doesn't seem to be working, that's if you intended it to be viewed bigger)

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Hey sparky I'm getting an error with the top pic and the bottom one doesn't open !! Oh congratulations on yet another kid on the way...you trying to catch up with me or what ??

Jo Bling said...

It'll be a while before I can match your prolific number Glazy. What was it last count? A football team, the referee and the linesmen???

As for the links, I'll have a tinker tonight. It may not like them because the originals were such big images.

Thanks for the kind words on the sketches, I'll keep on digging stuff out. Everybody knows the finished thing so it's always nice to see how we got there.

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Call me the Sperminator !! I hear 2 people have gotten pregnant from just posting on my blog !!

Jo Bling said...

I'm one of them...

Andrew Glazebrook said...

:)

I. N. J. Culbard said...

We've yet to try that method.

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Get that pic sorted it's still bringing up an error !!