Got Any Games on Your Phone?

Project Overview

Got Any Games on Your Phone? by Josh White takes on one of modern childhood’s most familiar tensions — the pull of the screen versus the call of the world beyond it — with humour and heart rather than a lecture. When Legend’s phone disappears, the story that unfolds is wonderfully messy and creative: real adventures, genuine laughter, and the discovery that imagination produces experiences no app can match. Josh White writes with a lightness that keeps the message from feeling preachy, trusting the story’s comedy and warmth to carry the point.

The illustration challenge was making Legend’s screen-free world look genuinely more exciting and colourful than anything a phone could offer — every spread needed to visually argue the book’s case, making the outdoor and imaginative adventures so vivid and appealing that young readers felt the pull of them themselves.

Role

The illustration challenge was making Legend’s screen-free world look genuinely more exciting and colourful than anything a phone could offer. Every spread needed to visually argue the book’s case, so the outdoor and imaginative adventures came across as vivid and appealing enough that young readers felt the pull themselves.

Full illustration across the book covered character design for Legend and his world of real-life adventures, visual contrast between screen environments and vibrant outdoor scenes, comedic energy across humorous sequences, and print-ready file preparation for Mascot Books.

Character Design

Before a single page is illustrated, I develop the main characters in full — defining their proportions, expressions, and personality. This is the foundation that keeps your characters recognizable and consistent across every scene, every lighting condition, and every emotional moment in the project.

Process

Every project follows this same structured path, so you always know where we are and what comes next. You review and approve at the sketch stage and the line art stage — nothing moves to color until you’re happy. By the time the final spread is rendered, there are no surprises.