Decided to use some medieval tapestry as inspiration for this one. Could have been worse for these two if the sister couldn’t understand babbling fountains. Another evil stepmother. Another abandoned
Day 8 A rooster and hen eat a bunch of nuts. They’re too tired to walk home so the rooster makes a cart from nuts. Folklore cares not for scale
Day 7 Made it one whole week! Maybe this will stick! There is some TERRIBLE parenting in these stories. This story starts off oddly anti-primogeniture, which is…progressive. But the king’s
Day 6 A lot of the titular characters in these stories are not good people. This one plays his fiddle to summon a companion for his walk through the woods.
Day 5 Knowing the language of crows would be super helpful, if vaguely unsettling. This story kinda contains infanticide. Except the kids come back to life almost immediately so I’m
Day 4 Mom goat tells the kids not to open the door for the wolf who will have a gruff voice & black paws. So he eats chalk?? And he
Top left text: If only I could get the shivers! Bottom right text: If you won’t be careful I can’t help you. Next thing you know, you’ll set me
Day 2 There are some weird lines in these stories. Like: nothing tastes better than the food you yourself eat. Ok, cat. I didn’t get past the sketch stage with
Day 1 I’m doing a bit of folktale research so I dug out my copy of Grimm’s Tales. Going to try to read & draw one a day. Except I’m