AS THE winner of last year’s competition to design characters to
brighten up the children’s ward at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Charles
Darwin student Leah Sims has been working with a professional
illustrator to develop her designs for a series of woodland characters.
The development phase is now complete and Harry the Hedgehog and his
friends - a woodpecker, a fox, a badger and a mouse - have moved in to
the children’s ward.
Harry the Hedgehog was originally drawn as a piece of GCSE graphics
homework and Leah’s graphics teacher, Laura Pacifico, entered the
designs into the competition.
“When I found out that my designs had been chosen, the artist Paul
Gurney and art director for the hospital, Sarah Taylor, visited the
school to discuss the initial ideas and indicate how the designs would
be used around the ward,” explained Leah, pictured.
She also visited the hospital with Mrs Pacifico and members of her
own family to see where the designs would be used, discussing the
different scenarios and further developing the characters and their
personalities with a team which included the head nurse of the
children's ward.
“After the ward visit, I went to the illustrator’s studio to see how
the computer images were produced using my originals as a base,” Leah
said. “We communicated by email, exchanging ideas until the designs were
finalised and ready for printing.”
Finally, after almost six months of hard work, the first picture has gone up in the main reception.
“I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience and am extremely grateful
to everyone involved in bringing my characters to life and to the art
and design department at Charles Darwin School, which has supported me
the whole way,” the student concluded.
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