Welcome to Grammar Ray!

Hello and thanks for taking a look at this video blog.

In the following posts you will see a video for each part of my book series Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar. I really had a lot of fun making the books and in these videos I have had the chance to share some of my creative process with you.

I hope you enjoy the books and these videos, please also visit the Grammar Ray Facebook page for some more artwork and images.

Punctuation Robots and Conjunctions Design.

Punctuation & Sentences was the final book that I completed for the Grammar Ray series although the Punctuation Robots were some of the first that I started to create. In this video we look at their evolution with more artwork completed just for this blog. We also see a few early ideas for the Conjunctions section.

Prepositions: Design

Prepositions are the words that can tell us about place, movement and time. In this video I will take you through part of the character and book design using images from my sketchbooks, some of which I have specially coloured and animated for this blog!

Verb Man trailer from the 1970s

Adverbs

This time I'm going to talk you briefly through the design process for the Adverbs book and character. It's a comic book within a comic book...

Adjectives Blog Video

A look at the design of the Adjectives book and character featuring thumbnail/book comparisons and an extended sequence of panels animated together.

Pronouns

In this video I talk you through the design of the Pronoun character, explain his powers of transformation and show you some of the 'missing' Demonstrative Pronouns chapter.