For today’s sketch we come to one of my old time favorite’s Frau Holle. I’ve always enjoyed the concept of Frau Holle, (loosely translated as Old Mother Frost) a sort of winter elemental spirit and a diminution of the pagan goddess,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I seem to be drawing a whole lot of the popular fairy tales early in this challenge and today’s, Hansel & Gretel, is no exception. I had the usual problem of choosing which scene to use but ending up going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For day eight of my sketch Challenge the magic upper ware told me to draw one of the darker tales from the Brothers Grimm, The Juniper Tree! You usually don’t see the Juniper tree in anything but the unabridged editions.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I seem to be making up for pulling top ten stories like Snow White and Hansel and Gretel on the first week with stories stories so obscure I had to reread them before starting the sketch. Today’s story, The Clever[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s Sketch we’re back to Hans Christian Andersen with The Great Sea Serpent, one so obscure I hadn’t even heard of it until I started working on my list and I completely missed the point of the story the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Duration of Life will probably be the most obscure fairy tale I get this month (this is what we call wishfull thinking) On top of that there really much going on. With nothing much more than a couple of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For day twelve of the challenge the magic tupperware told me to draw the Twelve Brothers. Brothers turning into birds (type number 451 in the Arne-Thompson index) is a fairly common trope, Grimm alone has three examples. When picking which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just recently enjoyed DC comics’ Wacky Raceland a humorous apocalyptic revision to Hanna-Barbara’s sixties cartoon The Wacky Races. This got me waxing nostalgically about Hanna-Barbara’s best villains, Dick Dastardly! Dick is a wonderful parody of every mustache twirling villain[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well after nearly a week of drawing obscure, to completely unknown, stories the magic Tupperware finally gave me a live one with Little Red Riding hood. I have to confess this is one I have mixed feelings about this one.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For day fourteen of this challenge, we’re back to Hans Christian Andersen with one of my personal favorites, The Tinderbox! I really didn’t go for any particular scene from the story… Just did something that caught the main point of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
