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…
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…
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…
