A Fairytale Begins

This week I have started a huge new project. The idea of illustrating a story has been tossed around in my mind for about a year. Two weeks ago, I committed to the idea. I made a couple of rough starts. I have never illustrated a whole story before. I have always loved fairytales. I have picked a Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale. I had lots of excited butterflies in my stomach and questions of where to start. I want this book to be only pictures no words, so the pictures have to enough that you can see the story unfold.

I am at the very beginning, in fact have not even finished the first page of drawing but I am sharing, and by sharing committing myself to this wonderful idea.

I started with picking a story, "The Wild Swans". I messed around with the idea of altering it a little bit but have decided to stick with the original story. I made a mood board on Pinterest. Lots of pictures of castles, beautiful princesses and princes, haunted forests, animals, swans of course. All still exciting and lots of work ahead for me.

Here is a sneak peak of the first page.

a start

It is a large paper I am working on. I can then shrink it later when editing, it is just easier to work larger. Every morning right after breakfast I go to my studio and work until lunch. A cat needs attention every once in a while, and it is good to stand and stretch.

I don't know where this rabbit hole will go, it just an idea that is at the start. Maybe it will lead to other stories. That wouldn't be so bad.

Thank you for coming by.