Today’s sketch, The Wolf and The Seven Young Kids, is one of the stories that is somewhere in the middle of the of obscurity list. It’s usually in most of the collections, I know I read it while growing up,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today when I shook the tupperware before picking a name this one fell out… Literally. So obviously that meant I had to draw this one. The Fisherman and His Wife, one of the classic examples of be careful what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I drew another fun one with Godfather Death. I always find it a bit of a catch twenty-two on just how to do a lot of these illustrations, especially when it involves stock characters like Death. At one level[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, it looks like I’m hitting the deep end of the pool of the truly macabre, with The Grimms’ version of the Bluebeard story, The Robber Bridesgroom. It’s easy to choose the scene in the story that tells us everything[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I first pulled today’s story out of the magic Tupperware I was almost tempted to cheat and pick another one. It’s not that I don’t like the story, no The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two-thirds into this and I’m back with Hans Christian Andersen with one of the best examples of the grateful dead motif (no, not that Grateful dead) The Traveling Companion. The Traveling Companion is one of my favorite Andersen stories but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Goose Girl is another one of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales I somehow missed during my childhood only reading it later on when I had access to the adult unabridged version I was reading as a folklore reference. Growing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, For today’s sketch challenge the magic Tupper ware told me to draw Hans Christian Andersen’s most depressing story ever, The Little Match Girl. A story about an ignored little girl who holds onto hope as she slowly dies of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well For today’s sketch the magic Tupperware told me to draw… The Raven! But since it was one I never heard of and I couldn’t find an English version of it, leaving me wondering why I put it on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s fairy tale Hans Christian Andersen’s Steadfast Tin Soldier, (it’s usually called the Brave Tin Soldier but frankly I like steadfast better) was another one that I really didn’t want to do. Regrettably, that’s the whole point of this exercise.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
