13/06/2013
Mowgli and Baloo
I've recently been reading Rudyard Kipling's original Mowgli stories, which inspired me to draw this piece.
02/06/2013
More of Wonderland
Do You Play Croquet?
(pen and ink/digital)
Characters from Wonderland
(pen and ink/watercolour)
17/05/2013
13/05/2013
Cheshire Cat
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
-Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865)
The Wind in the Willows - Rat and Mole
"Nice? It's the ONLY thing," said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING--absolute nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows" (1908)
21/04/2013
20/04/2013
Hansel and Gretel
I'd forgotten I'd done this drawing of Hansel and Gretel discovering the witch's cottage until I happened upon it in a sketchbook from last year. Hansel and Gretel ranks among my favourite fairy tales (it'd probably be somewhere in the Top 10), and I think the reason why I like it (and the reason why I think it remains one of the Grimms' best known tales) is because it tells a simple, human story about the need for survival and the triumph of good over evil.
I also think the imagery and settings are particularly enticing, in particular the concept of a gingerbread cottage. I've chosen to go for a slightly more humbling depiction of the edifice as described by the Brothers Grimm themselves, unlike the extreme candy-coated renditions most modern versions show. See if you spot anything particular on the house that may allude to the owner's witchy ways...
Cinderella and the Birds
An illustration to the version
of "Cinderella" by the Brothers Grimm (known in German as
"Aschenputtel"), in which the eponymous heroine is aided not by a fairy
godmother, but by a magic tree and some birds.
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