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 day two of this challenge we have The Goblin and the Huckster. This one threw me off for a bit. The first was because it was one I wasn’t familiar with so I had to look it up.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the the planned randomness of these challenges I was a little surprised that I got one of the fun ones, Snow White, this early. Not that I’m complaining at all. I had second choices about the composition choice minutes[…]↓ 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 day five of the sketch challenge we go back to Mr. Andersen with the Princess and The Pea. This one was really easy frankly the only creative struggle you get when pulling this title from the magic Tupperware is[…]↓ 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…
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…
