Colorful cartoon cover with the text 'Your Mood Journal' in large, playful, decorated letters, featuring two whimsical monster characters with big smiles and expressive eyes, set against a starry blue background.

Your Mood Journal
Puffin Books

What I did

Illustration
Lettering

Art Direction & Design

Nic & Lou / Emma Wells

I will never get tired of getting asked to draw monsters and characters, in this case it was for Your Mood Journal, a book written by Fearne Cotton to help children navigate their journey through all the emotions that come with being a small person.

Working with Nic & Lou I developed a character for each emotion, as well as all the illustrations and lettering that went with them.

Bright blue book titled 'Your Mood Journal' by Fearne Cotton with colorful cartoon monsters on the cover, on a yellow surface.
A cartoon purple creature with glasses and a cape, waving at a paper airplane flying through the air with clouds and dots on a purple background.
A pink background featuring various comic-style speech bubbles with motivational phrases and illustrations, including a red furry character with the phrase 'Why does everything always go wrong' and speech bubbles with texts like 'I don't like you,' 'That's not fair!,' 'I'm going to do it even if you say no,' and 'I never get to do what I want.'
Colorful illustrated page with the text 'Excite, Mee, Is, Natural' in bold, 3D-style lettering, and a cartoon creature with big eyes, horns, and striped arms, smiling and celebrating, with a small black circle containing the words 'Some Inspiration For You!'
A playful digital illustration featuring a green, rounded character with wide eyes and a wavy mouth, reaching up towards the space-themed background. The background contains stars, dots, and cosmic elements. Bold, stylized text in white and teal reads: "WORRIES WONT STICK AROUND."
Illustration of eight colorful monsters, each expressing different emotions. The monsters are labeled with feelings: Happiness, Fear, Worried, Angry, Sadness, Lonely, Excitement.
A pink background featuring a cartoon spiky red creature with angry eyes, sharp teeth, and clenched fists. Above it, bold stylized text reads 'RARRR I'M HONGER'.
A cheerful cartoon monster with a big smile, two eyes on stalks, an arm raised, and a yellow, textured body, with text above that reads "HEY, hey, hey I am HAPPINESS" in playful fonts.
Six sketches of journal covers for 'Your Mood Journal' by Fearne Cotton, each with different hand-drawn lettering and decorative elements like stars and lines.
An illustrated sad water droplet with a tear. Text above reads, 'Sniff, sniff. Hi. Gulp. I'm sadness.' in blue and white letters.
A cartoon-style image of a finger pressing a large red button on a pink background with a spiked border.

More work

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A colorful journal titled 'My Wonder Journal' lying on a purple surface with stickers, a drawstring bag with monster faces, and additional books with vibrant covers.

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Cartoon orange dinosaur holding a wine glass with a pink background.

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