Loraine Marshall

Loraine Marshall is an art director, illustrator and animator who has been in the industry for over twenty years. She provided the illustrations for the Mr. Perkins' Storytime segments where she adapted The Railway Series illustrations by Reginald Payne, C. Reginald Dalby, John T. Kenney, Gunvor and Peter Edwards. Other credits include Channel 4's "The Snowman and The Snowdog", "Ebb and Flo", "The Wind in the Willows (1995)" and CITV's "Horrid Henry".

Featured Illustrations

 * 1) The Flying Kipper -
 * 2) Trucks! -
 * 3) Thomas and Gordon -
 * 4) Pop Goes the Diesel -
 * 5) Thomas and the Breakdown Train -
 * 6) A Scarf for Percy -
 * 7) Thomas Goes Fishing -
 * 8) Edward and Gordon -
 * 9) Toby's Tightrope -
 * 10) Gordon Goes Foreign -
 * 11) Thomas' Train -
 * 12) Henry and the Elephant -
 * 13) Thomas Comes to Breakfast -
 * 14) Thomas in Trouble -
 * 15) Ghost Train -
 * 16) Thomas and Bertie -
 * 17) Percy and Harold -
 * 18) Thomas, Terence and the Snow -
 * 19) Sir Topham Hatt's Engines -
 * 20) Trouble in the Shed -

Trivia

 * When working for the segments, Marshall closely studied the original illustrations and had copies around her whilst recreating the new drawings. Once the pencil line drawing were approved, Marshall then trace it on to watercolour paper (about A4 size, 30 x 21cm) and hand painted the illustration with watercolours. Next she scanned the painting into the computer and did additional work in Photoshop. The process of creating a new illustration varies depending on the amount of detail and complexity in the picture. It took from two hours to a day and a half just to draw the illustration in pencil line, then an additional half a day to a day and half to paint the picture. So each illustration can either take less that a whole day or three days from start to finish.