The Making of DR Bubbles & Panda

The Making of DR Bubbles & Panda - Part 3 (Final)

One of the earliest panda sketches, dated 24 December 2014
© Latfy A Latif

If I remember correctly, we started working on the DR Bubbles & Panda book somewhere around mid November 2014.

Guess when did the book got published?

April 2015.

It was launched exactly a year after the first book was published (DR Bubbles & Anak Kucing, April 2014), during the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair.

It takes a number of text developments and drawing revisions before a book gets published.

Characters changed, stories changed, pages taken out, added in, scenes got swapped etc etc. But if you'll enjoy the creative process, and deep down inside you know that it will be a nice, well-written, properly-thought-out picturebook that children deserves to have.

Here are some of the final illustrations that made it into the book:

Look closely and you'll find some animals that normally lives in the burrow.
These two pages has no text, as to allow parents and their children to enjoy the illustration spread make up their understanding and observation. But if you look even closely you'll notice the hidden word!

There are no text on these pages as well. We believe that the illustrations themselves are sufficient enough for children to understand and follow the story.

I thoroughly enjoyed painting this one! Reminds me of paintings we do when we were kids :)
And this looks even better on the real pages!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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