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A process video of a little bee guardian drawing I did in Procreate.

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Folktale Week Day 7: Victory

This illustration was inspired by Women's Wiles, another story from the 1001 Nights, in which a foolish merchant decides to post a sign over his shop proclaiming, "Men's Wits Exceed Women's Wiles." A young woman plans an elaborate hoax to make him repent of this, change his sign, and concede victory.

#children's illustration #arabian nights #watercolor portrait #folktale week #folktale art #kidlitart #kidlitillustration

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Folktale Week Day 6: Potion

Inspired by The Little Soldier, a complicated French fairy tale in which Princess Ludovine, cursed into the form of a snake, convinces a soldier to help her. Once she is restored to her true form, she tries various tricks, including a potion, to get out of her promise of marrying him. Though the soldier initially plots revenge, he eventually realizes he would be better off with someone who truly loves him and parts from the princess with a grace and maturity rarely seen in this type of story. He goes to live a simple life with a fisherwoman who helped him on his travels.

#folktale week #fairy tale art #watercolor portrait #fantasy illustration #fairy tales #witches #witchythings #potion

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Folktale Week Day 5: Costume

For better or worse, Loki was the member of the Norse pantheon who got things done. The gods would send him on various errands (often to fix what he'd broken), and he would usually ask to borrow Freya's falcon-feathered cloak so he could soar, disguised, through the nine realms. Here he is following the Bifrost back to Asgard.

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Folktale Week Day 4: Rebel

This comes from the English folktale, Three Valiant Lads. Set in the Peak District in Derbyshire, it's a clever origin story for the Blue John mines. When their village is under threat from a huge dragon, three lads rally the townsfolk to rebel against the dragon and chase it away. Once it retreated underground, it turned into the rare Blue John fluorite. Unusually, this particular fluorite formed with bands of purple and blueish purple and the mined crystals been made into striking jewelry, goblets, vases, etc.

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Folktale Week Day 3: Star

#folktale week #night sky #folktale art #fantasy illustration #digital illustration #artists on tumblr #stars #astronomy

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Folktale Week Day 2: Tree

When I was in Scotland, I saw a gigantic tree, famous as the Birnham Oak, a relic of the Birnham Woods that inspired Shakespeare's famous moving-forest scene in Macbeth. These woods were ancient and legendary even in Shakespeare's time, and this last remaining tree is estimated to be at least 600 years old. It definitely has an aura of myth and magic about it.

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Folktale Week Day 1: Fool

Hi, everyone! This challenge is much more active on Instagram, but going to drop a few images here as well since my Tumblr is feeling sadly neglected! To learn more about Folktale Week as a whole, visit: https://www.instagram.com/folktaleweek/

This illustration was inspired by one of my favorite stories from 1001 Nights, The Caliph and the Merchant, specifically from the story cycle The Adventures of the Caliph Haroun Alraschid. (If you've seen the 2000 miniseries adaptation, you'll know this story as The Sultan and the Beggar, in which the Sultan gets a darker role and comes to a darker end). In this tale, the caliph, bored with his routine at the palace, decides to wander the streets of Bagdad in search of amusement. He meets Abon Hassan, a local merchant, and Abon invites him home for supper. Not knowing who his guest really is, Abon starts talking about how he would run the city if he were caliph, and Haroun Alraschid thinks it would be fun to give the merchant a shot at it. So he drugs Abon and then has his servants carry the man to the palace. The next morning, Abon wakes up in the royal bed, surrounded by servants and slaves who tell him he is the caliph. At first the merchant argues, but eventually he decides to enjoy his good luck. The story has its cruel points; when Abon wakes up the next day in his own bed, his ravings get him chained to a wall in the madhouse. Still convinced it’s all a game, the caliph later repeats the trick.

Though the Caliph plays Abon for a fool, Abon manages to get back at him. And though Abon is treated throughout most of the story like a pawn in the Caliph's game, this doesn't overcome Abon’s excitement over being king for a day. Often the moral of fool stories is that having a little fun is the best kind of payback.

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Sketch of the Falls of Bruar and bridge from my recent trip to Scotland. Wish I'd squeezed in more sketch time but I was running around like mad snapping photos.

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A little tomato and pink madder lake crab for this week's Colour Collective! Next time I decide to gif something, remind me to pick a subject that doesn't have 10 legs and a gazillion joints🤦‍♀.

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I remember being optimistic for the new year at the end of 2020, and boy did I learn my lesson 😂. Entering this year with low expectations and only modest hopes. Who knows, maybe we can get through six days without incident.⁠ ⁠ Rest in peace, Betty White; we were all rooting for you to make 100 but clearly 2021 wanted to throw us one last collective punch in the feels.⁠ ⁠ I did manage to close out the year doing one of my favorite things -- learning new art hacks. Lisa Bardot did this awesome paper cut class for Procreate, and I had a lot of fun with those snowflakes.⁠

#new year 2022 #2022 #Happy New Year #artists on tumblr #procreate #paper crafts #paper cutout #betty white #graphic illustration #illustration art #illustration on tumblr

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A little Witcher fan sketch. So glad we got a second season of this. Though I went with Geralt and long-suffering Roach because of their dramatic profiles, it's Yennefer and Jaskier's frenemy banter that I'm really here for.

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Even dragons need their morning warm-ups.⁠

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One of my darker pieces from Folktale Week.⁠ Kelpies are Scottish shape-shifting fey of lakes and rivers. Sometimes a man and sometimes a horse and never to be trusted.⁠

#kelpie #scottish folklore #horseart #creature design #water horse #artists on tumblr #illustration on tumblr #illustration art

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Needed to do something for office Halloween. Discovered that a staggering number of co-workers have not seen The Emperor's New Groove. Umm, you guys are only missing out on one of the best Disney movies of all time.

#halloween 2021 #halloween costumes #halloween cosplay #emperor's new groove #emperor kuzco #artists on tumblr #cosplay #disney cosplay #disney costume

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This is a little fan art of Cat Sebastian's Two Rogues Make a Right. There was a lot about this book that got me in the feels, and even though I kept wanting to shake the characters and scream, "You can't treat TUBERCULOSIS with peppermint oil," people actually did try to, so points to the author for period accuracy. Also, I just couldn't believe that Will and Martin could start a pig farm without at least some piglets ending up as pets, so I snuck one in.⁠

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These aren't all my watercolor supplies by a long shot 😂 They're just what I could fit on the desk.

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