(DATABASE) Project 2 finals - jpg/png for sharing in class

Xiaohan Tang

 Through the process, I always thought of fate and the idea of fighting against fate. Young Rowland's three brothers were taken to the Dark Tower by the Elf-world king to save their sister, and the brave knight was able to retrieve them. In doing this assignment, I had a lot of pain and didn't know how to draw it many times. Even the article I don't feel confident I can fully understand. But the way I read the story the first time was to save his lost sister, which was the fate that Rowland had to suffer. And there's a lot of poetry in the story that keeps telling Rowland the three laws. So for me, Rowland was a journey full of shackles, obstacles, and bravery.

Mai Nguyen

This illustration is based off of the story, The Ghoul and the Youth of Ispahan. 

With this story there was quite a lot of room for imagination as the descriptions were loose with its setting other than stating where it takes place. I had to do some research on Persian fashion and architecture in order to design a character and imagine a background that would fit in this world. 

Sakura Asano

I chose to illustrate Urashima Taro. To be honest, I wasn't the most inspired for this project and it was hard for me to get the project going, but I think I did what I could and decided to submit this piece at this state. 

Kira Mitchell

I chose to illustrate the two travellers' story. I wanted to get basically all the story in one shot, doing this through the main bad guy as the figure of focus, the story moving from bottom right, and ending in the whole scene together with the bad guy getting swarmed by the birds and getting his eye plucked out. I wanted the illustration to feel eerie, so I decided to keep to a tonal range instead of full colour

Roxi Dimarucot

Lad Who Went to the North Wind... 

Maggie Lin

Nina Droz

Based off of the story, the Witches' Ride. The research outside of the class included me looking at the types of wildlife in Costa Rica. I decided to illustrate the Ceiba pentandra (kapok tree), a tropical tree native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and West Africa.

Helen He

For my fairytale I chose Hansel and Gretel. Since many depictions usually involve the two wandering in a forest under a fantasy setting, I wanted to try and give it a modern twist with a creepy tone, showing a scene of how some things aren’t as good as they seem. Since Gretel is the one to use her wits and save her brother in the end, I depicted her being the first to notice that something is up in the scene.

Bronte Sobotka

I chose the tale of the Lad who Went to the North Wind, but changed it to the Lass who went to the North Wind. I imagine this as a piece that functions as a double page spread title in a picture book, and I mostly focused on the elements of the resolution since this is the most emotionally filled part of the story as the character returns home victorious having bested (by beating up) the evil innkeeps. 

I showed a lot of the path and landscape, since the adventure is such a major part of the story, with the character spending most of the plot journeying to and from the North Wind.

I made it lightly anachronistic, at a glance it appears to be a normal fantasy setting, however, a baseball bat, pink sneakers, and working fridge (among other bits) betray some more modern elements that bring in some contemporary airs to the work and story. 

Tat Peterson

This is my illustration based on the folktale Tattercoats. My goal with this illustration was to make nature all the more prominent and to give an overall sense of fantasy. I chose a limited colour palette of pink and blue, and drew each component individually before placing everything together.  All of the outfits are based on pre french revolution fashion, aka Roco, but also loosely based on my childhood obsession with drawing princesses. I tried to interlace each outfit with the common themes of nature, so each pattern on the fabric of the dresses is meant to emulate the rest of the illustration. I took a lot of inspiration from artists like Mary Blair and Eastern European folk art to inspire textures and patterns used in the trees and rocks and such. All together this piece is very detailed and did claim a part of my soul to complete. Also, I made all of the geese in the original story foxes because I really love the playfulness of foxes in traditional folktales, and also I just really love foxes.