Sydney Doucett Ilustration
photo by izzieshoots
Sydney Doucett is a floridian illustrator and writer currently based in London. She completed her undergraduate degree at Florida State University, double majoring in Creative Writing and Studio Art. While working as a professional nanny and completing her academics, Sydney rediscovered the joy of children’s literature. This became the perfect marriage for the creative words, and art making, she was cultivating in her studies and renewed her childlike wonder for art through working directly with children. This led Sydney to furthering her education, with a Master’s Degree in Children’s Illustration and Publishing from Goldsmith’s University of London. She hopes to continue making books that excite children and adults through the artwork and storytelling, and to further her craft as an illustrator, writer, and designer.
The Candy Necklace Princess
Commissioned Children’s Book
Commissioned Children’s Book written by author Katie Duffy, a semi-autobiographical fairytale that both whimsically and powerfully retells the authors own journey with mental health struggles and the candy necklace magic that led her back to happiness.
medium: gauche, watercolor, pastels, and mixed media
The Rowdy Raccoons
Master’s Thesis Children’s Book at Goldsmiths
Master’s Thesis book project for Goldsmiths University of London, Children’s Illustration and Publishing Degree.
gauche, watercolor, & mixed media
The story was based on Sydney’s childhood growing up in central florida, surrounded by wildlife, waterparks and plenty of rowdy raccoons..
Alien Cat Attack
Silent Book Project
Alien Cat Attack is a story of an earth cats encounter with two strange and detructive alien cats who invade its home. This results in an intergalatic altercation... but leads to friendship and feline space travel.
The silent book was inspired by the three cats that live in Sydney’s London flat, whose battles for terrority and respect rival those of the alien cats adventures.
Medium: Digitally rendered on procreate
Belling of the Cat
Aesop Fables Illustration Project
“Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the Cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case. “You will all agree,” said he, “that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she was about, and could easily retire while she was in the neighbourhood.” This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: “That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?”
Medium: gauche, watercolor, mixed media