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Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge Day Thirty One – The Bremen Town Musicians.

by wpmorse on May 1, 2017 at 9:58 am
Posted In: Art

I Finished my April Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge with the Bremen Town Musicians!Technically I finished the sketch challenge yesterday. but here’s the thing. I do these sketches on 8.5 & ll sheets of bristol board and I do two sketches a sheet. Since I was left with one last sheet of bristol board with only one sketch I finished the month of April on May 1st to make a baker’s dozens. (for anyone who points out that there were only thirty days in April, and thus an even number, I had this same problem for my last Inktober sketch challenge and started this challenge on the last page of my last Inktober challenge.) So anyway. here’s the last sketch of my April Challenge, The Bremen Town Musicians.

The Bremen Town Musicians is a fun one. It’s also one of those ones where there’s really only one image to do that will tell us all we need to know about the story. This doesn’t sound like much of a challenge, but then it hit me, why would this seemingly ridiculous scene of the stack of animals scare the robbers? After that, it occurred to me I’d never seen a version of the image that was from the robbers’ point of view.

Having that smashing through my window in the middle of the night, with the right lighting would certainly frighten me.

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Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge Day Thirty The Three Little Men in The Wood

by wpmorse on April 30, 2017 at 8:57 am
Posted In: Art

For today April Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge I drew the Three Little Men in the Wood by the Brothers Grimm. For the penultimate entry in this month’s sketch challenge The Three Little Men in The Wood from the Brother’s Grimm. Another one of the stories where good girl is rewarded and the bad girl is punished. I freely admit that I took liberties with this one. A lot of versions of this story just have the little men (or similar magical beings) just standing around the fire, alone in the forest. In the story, they have a house. For me the alone in the forest thing was much more dramatic… and I’m the one who’s drawing this thing.

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Happy Birthday Duke – Bojangles

by wpmorse on April 29, 2017 at 11:40 am
Posted In: Art

A very happy 118th Birthday to Mr. Duke Ellington. To celebrate let’s listen to his tribute to Bill Robinson, “Bojangles” When I first heard it I briefly assumed it would be a Jazz version of the song “Mr. Bojangles” (even though Jerry Jeff Walker wrote it in 1968) I was pleasantly surprised that it was not.

Enjoy

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Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge Day Twenty Nine – Hans My Hedgehog

by wpmorse on April 29, 2017 at 10:52 am
Posted In: Art

For Day twenty eight of my April Fairy Tale Challenge I drew Hans My Hedgehog!As we reach the home stretch of this thing the magic Tupperware gave me one that I may have been looking forward to on a subconscious level, Hans My Hedgehog.!

For this one, I didn’t really bother with what part of the story I wanted to do for this picture. After all, it’s all about Hans. He’s a hedgehog who rides a rooster and plays the bagpipes! What more do you need? (though in hindsight I might have borrowed a little bit more from memories of Maurice Sendak’s illustration than I think I did.)

Having actually read the story, it’s almost a shame that the second half of it is a by the numbers Beauty and the Beast story. Hans is such a cool character you almost wish the princess turned into a hedgehog and they rode away to Hans’s woodland kingdom to live happily ever after.

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Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge Day Twenty Eight – Little Briar Rose

by wpmorse on April 28, 2017 at 10:09 am
Posted In: Art

For Day Twenty Eight of my Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge I drew Little Briar Rose.Well, today The Magic Tupperware told me to draw Little Briar Rose AKA the Grimm version of Sleeping Beauty (okay I confess, first it told me to do the The Nixie in the Pond and then theThe Spirit in the Glass Bottle… it’s the end of the challenge, I just want to get through with it with no more hassle)

So when I got to doing Sleeping Beauty two things hit me. First, with the Film Noir thing I’d been mostly trying to do throughout this challenge gave it a serious and exploitable Indiana Jones vibe. Second, I found myself wondering why Briar Rose would be sleeping in a bed when the Prince found her. She fell asleep in front of a spinning wheel. Everybody else in the castle fell asleep when she did. The only one who’d be able to move her was the wicked fairy (or the thirteenth wise woman in this case) And she certainly wouldn’t be willing.

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Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge Day Twenty Seven – Rumpelstiltskin

by wpmorse on April 27, 2017 at 10:54 am
Posted In: Art

For Day Twenty Seven of my April Fairy Tale Sketch Challenge I drew Rumpelstiltskin.This was another one time during this challenge where I kind of cheated drawing a story, Dr. Know-All, I don’t know why I put in the tupperware, to begin with. So I drew a second time and got Rumplestiltskin.

Unfortunately, while this was an easy one to conceive I ended up getting terribly behind schedule because of looking for a reference for spinning wheels. I frequently use Google Sketchup as a source of models for drawing references, however, when I tried to download a spinning wheel Sketchup developed a bit of a personality regarding new terms of use. There was no active link to click and I wasted way too much time trying to solve this problem.

I think I finally came up with something decent freehand. Other than overthinking what the whole turning straw into gold thing looked like, it went pretty well.

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