Well I decided to be stupid again and inflict another sketch challenge on myself. This time the theme is Grimm Fairy tales (with a little bit of Hans Christian Anderson to fill out the Gaps.) The rules one sketch a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay for today’s challenge I got one of the more obscure ones, though a classic example of one of the common motif of a magical elixir giving someone the ability to understand animals, with the White Snake. Though there were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
