Please help! Picture of Squirrel Nutkin (CBeebies) to colour in - magazine?

[WellTidy]

Ds10yo has ASD and learning difficulties. He has many changeable obsessions, but he has had this one for the last fortnight and it is stumping me. He expects me to be able to magic up what he would like, and it is a challenge at times!

He would like a picture of Squirrel Nutkin from the CBeebies Peter Rabbit programme to colour in. It has to be the CBeebies Nutkin, not a generic squirrel and the Beatrix Potter illustrations will not do at all.

It sounds like an easy request to fulfill, but no. I have looked, I think, everywhere online. Plenty of Peter and Benjamin and Lily and even Peter’s sisters and also the enemy animals. But I can’t find a Nutkin anywhere. I have the colouring books from the films, I have the sticker books and the reading hooks from the CBeebies series and there is nothing I can adapt. I cannot draw for toffee.

The only other thing I can think of is that at some point there may have been a picture of Nutkin in the monthly Peter Rabbit magazine. If anyone has back copies, please please please would you look through them to see if there is one and let me know the issue number so that I can buy it, even if at a massive premium?

Here’s hoping.

My daughter is a whizz at digital art. I could ask her to draw over a coloured photo of him creating a b/w colour in page we could upload for you to print out?

He’s on the end of this colouring sheet
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/cbeebies-colouring-sheets-peter-rabbit

[quote Isgooglebroken]He’s on the end of this colouring sheet
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/cbeebies-colouring-sheets-peter-rabbit[/quote]
That's a bunny isn't it?

No he isn’t! Sorry

Yes @Sheeeeeysh
I swear I had him but struggling to find him now!

You used to be able to buy back issues of the magazine

@Sheeeeeysh oh my gosh. That would be amazing, if she had true time and inclination to do it. I’d be ever so grateful.

@Theunamedcat yes, you still can and I would happily buy the back issue. But I don’t know which issue would have a picture of him in, unfortunately.

[quote WellTidy]@Sheeeeeysh oh my gosh. That would be amazing, if she had true time and inclination to do it. I’d be ever so grateful.

@Theunamedcat yes, you still can and I would happily buy the back issue. But I don’t know which issue would have a picture of him in, unfortunately.[/quote]
I'll get her to do it tonight and I'll contact you x

@Sheeeeeysh I’m incredibly grateful, thank you so much

MN at it's best

I am so touched!

This will not be as good as the artist's version you've been promised and I don't have time to do the same thing (or possibly the skills these days), but as a proof of concept, you can use online convertor to convert an image into a line drawing.

Can you just google image search and then edit the image with a black and white filter and then turn up the exposure and down the contrast? That should do it I’d have thought

Thank you @ehb102 and @PiesNotGuys for your replies but I’m afraid that I don’t really understand what you’re saying. I am clearly not at all techie as well as a dreadful artist!

Did you click on the image I uploaded?

From DD, 12 x

Sorry clear version

Amazing! Love when Mumsnet comes through like this.

Thank you so much @Sheeeeeysh, it is absolutely perfect. Please pass on my huge appreciation to your DD. Ds is really happy with it ‘it is just like the CBeebies Nutkin mummy’ so I’m going to print it off now.

Aww wonderful Sheeeeeysh ❤️

Just read she's 12, well done her.

She said you're very welcome x

Ah how lovely. What a lovely thing for her to do.

She did a really lovely thing @Sheeeeeysh

This nearly made me cry, what a lovely, kind, happy thread :-)