Monday Greetings! For April's fairytale illustration I decided to use June's suggestion of Beauty and the Beast.
I've had a hard time getting started on this one as I'm not in the habit of drawing beastly characters and I couldn't get the Disney version out of my mind. But after coming across this illustration by Edmund Dulac, I started to feel free to experiment. It's fun to be drawing a character that's so different from my usual fare and I'm excited to try a new way of working for the final illustration. I wonder what will happen.
I've had a hard time getting started on this one as I'm not in the habit of drawing beastly characters and I couldn't get the Disney version out of my mind. But after coming across this illustration by Edmund Dulac, I started to feel free to experiment. It's fun to be drawing a character that's so different from my usual fare and I'm excited to try a new way of working for the final illustration. I wonder what will happen.
Also, remember the bat boy photo that was in the tabloids years ago? I think I must have inadvertently been channeling that when I drew the sketch on the lower left. Creepy.
Yay, glad you took up my suggestion. I thought it would challenge you and at the start you expressed a wish to draw characters with a darker side than your usual happy cheery bunch! Good luck, look forward to see kthe process.
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