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February 25, 2008
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Update: 29th April, 2010. Better scan.

*Please note this is an older work.

Pencil, 2002.

Part of a project from my third and last year at university, when I retold and illustrated Madame Catherine d'Aulnoy's Princess Rosette. It was submitted for the Macmillan Prize that year and received a 'Highly Commended'. This is the first spread, in which the queen discovers from the equally dismayed fairies that her longed for daughter, Rosette, will someday inadvertently bring about the destruction and death of her two sons.

The large empty scroll on the right was intended as a text panel.

One deviant remarked that the 'dwarf guy' is carrying what appears to be 'a cat in a huge nutshell'. My having omitted to draw the shafts of the feathers probably didn't help the impression, though given that this was more of an elaborated 'working drawing' than a fully completed illustration, it didn't occur to me at the time to draw those in greater detail. For those still perplexed, however, it is an early 16th century hat, with a wide slashed brim, not unlike this one. :)

The title spread:

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Mood: Love !grilopururin Oct 7, 2011
OMFG! It's P-E-R-F-E-C-T!
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Mood: Wow! ~LadyLaffAlot Jul 7, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
wow this is amazing.
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~Jacobea Jun 19, 2010  Hobbyist Writer
I will never cease to marvel at the huge amount of detail you pack into these works of art :D
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~irethkalt Jun 13, 2010  Professional Traditional Artist
I'm glad you're putting up some of your older work, especially in sketch form. I like to see how an artist moved through stages of setting up the composition as is evident in the title spread. :)
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*Himmapaan Jun 17, 2010  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you. I had hoped a few people might be interested in seeing that. :)
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~irethkalt Jun 17, 2010  Professional Traditional Artist
:D :nod: You're welcome!
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~ayuICHI Jun 12, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Very lovely. <3
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~AVA4Zinkovsky May 11, 2010
Good work.
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~amenokumo May 1, 2010
seriously you are....WOW......
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Mood: Wow! *echdhu Apr 30, 2010
I love the way you handle draperies..such beaautiful linework
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