Digger sketches for the site

An update on the site:
Been have been having a bit of time off and have’nt published any new drawings or pages recently.

I have been doing some sketches though so expect a large set of digger / transport themed ones and others when I get back on it (on the left are some of the sketches)

I’m still taking loads of photos, love my camera and finally know how to work it Loads of my shots are posted on my flickr profile, feel free to comment on them if you are signed up on there.

Hope to get back on it soon…

Also been helping out with the new arrivals at my Mum’s Goat Farm the past few weeks, everything went well this year, loads of baby goats have been born. and all are doing well here is my favourite how cute is that.

As always got loads of new stuff in the pipeline I’m also well in to writing my book that I will feature on my site including an e-book version, it’s going slow as I don’t think I’m a writer and I’m not confident but its coming together… and the story Frey and I made up is pretty cool, add some of my funky illustration work and who knows…

I’ll try to get more updates on here soon

Also got really cool email/s this past week from a student called Helen from Trinity College Dublin who is working on applications helping Kids develop mathematics using interactive games to get kids better at doing sums. I jumped in and am helping out with the artwork on those. I hope (to be confirmed) that I can feature some of Helen’s work.

Its also inspired me to do some of the stuff I thought up a few years back, will take a bit time to create the cool graphics but its a really good idea and it will work for both girls and boys.

As always hope you guys like the new stuff, leave feedback below if you want
- Dave

I loved the idea and straight away had some of my slightly crazy ideas for some funny pictures, so I emailed back YES, but you will have to wait a bit (late nights ahead).

I’ve released a few of the new ones tonight including four new on-line versions that you can colour in using your computer. I’ve also got quite a few more good sketches that will make good final artwork these will be added soon along with some new dot to dot pages which I have started already and aim to get live over the weekend.

I also got a cool email and link from some guys in Shrewsbury, they like my drawings as well and are featuring me in a publication /s

I wont rant on about this but I’m also stopping lots of other sites who have been stealing my drawings and using them to set up colouring sites covered in loads of adverts, that’s really annoyed me over the years and its wasted my time in taking action against them, if you spot my stuff out there feel free to let me know (that was the polite version)

Still great to get comments, feedback and support from you guys, I wish I wasn’t so busy sometimes, so many things I want to draw…

Hope you like the look of the new Kids camping drawings?

Spent most of Thursday night working on the new ‘app’ which will let Kids and adults simply customise their unique colouring pages, got it finished and working, showed my team at work and checked it on a few different machines there, all good.

Got back from work on Friday all fired up and started looking at it again, then started taking a close look at the live site and noticed that its usability is pretty poor, I said you need to fix that or don’t bother adding anything else (and yes I do talk to myself)

So it started, page by page (site has over nine hundred pages) going through each one and fixing the ‘printing’ of the pages. Try not to bore you but when you are on a main page e.g.  Teddy Bear Colouring you look at the small thumbnail images and go I like that one and click it, that opens a page containing the big printable picture, if you tried to print that page on Thursday it printed some words and other bits of the page, when ideally it should just let you guys print the main image only.

So that’s what I have been doing the past three days and still not finished, got just over two hundred pages done so far. Tested these in lots of browsers and they even work in early versions of Internet Explorer

I need to get the rest done before the new customise app gets released and that will take days to roll out, I’m sure you guys will love the new stuff that’s on its way and I hope the new set up on the pages I have altered makes it far easier and quicker to print the pages off for your Kids.

I’ll possibly have to do a ‘Printing Tips’ as well in the help section of the site. I will say one thing though when its done its going to be such a good site, I think its good now, but it should blow the socks off the rest of the colouring sites out there.

If there’s anything else really bad that I need to know please leave a comment below – Dave

I’m also adding the new online versions to the relevant key sections and example being the bird colouring pages, so we now have the printables and the online versions.

If all goes to plan I’ll be adding the rest of the birds and more new ones  in the next few days. As always hope you guys like the new additions.

Just released four new cat colouring pages. These new ones were drawn while staying at the Farm and are based on the observations of my Cat Maxy who now lives up there.  Still got a bit more work to do on this section, really need to get the existing printables added as online versions.  We have another two cat printables which are designed for children of all ages, below are links to all the new pages featured.

• Fishing Cat Printable
• Fire Cat Printable

I have re worked these two new ones to make them online colouring pages as well,l these can be coloured in using a variety of techniques and can be saved in various sizes along with being printed and added to your facebook image gallery

• Fishing Cat
• Fire Cat

Don’t forget to check out the Cat Colouring main section for more easy and complicated feline themed colouring pages. I also got some others started last night, will be featuring these soon.

As always looking forward to feedback on the latest additions to my site, feel free to comment below.

Great news is that She’s much better and I’m back home (woop woop) 

Bad news for the site is I’ve drawn loads of new original colouring sketches made but no scans or inked up drawings so far and very little new content has been added within that time…

Also while being up there I have had time to get back into photography and on the strength of that have rejuvenated my old Flickr account and started to add new photos of some of the stuff I see and like.

Hopefully will get some new pictures featured soon, really like some of the new sketches and looking forward to sharing them with you guys.

There are also four easier versions of these available for younger children to complete. Got loads more of these in the pipline that should be featured on my site soon.

Still need to add the canoeing sheep but I’m going to do that one later as the five I have display neatly.

Still pushing to get the new ones out there, got loads still to do, but loving the quality of the images that can be created using the different brush sizes and coloring tools.

Loads more new stuff coming soon…