Biggest Collection of Illustrated Fairy Tales

Grim, Eat Your Heart Out...

 

Surlane Fairy Tales

Here is a treat for you. This website is filled with fairy tales from around the world with several illustrators works exhibited. You can read the European version of Cinderella and then the Japanese next. Many of the tales are annotated and come with a comprehensive list of illustrators who illuminated them. It is a gorgeous site.

So Now Go Check Them Out:
http://www.surlanefairytales.com

Henry J. Ford: Ilustrator of the Week

All Those Tails...

Henry J. Ford

Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s.

I always loved his work in the colored fairy tales books of Andrew Lang. I hope you will too!

 Wikipedia Entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Justice_Ford

Free Download of his illustrated books:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26630

Introduction to Illustration Video

Wow....

 

Some tricks to the trade.

Ted Talks and The Journey of the Hero

Once Upon a Time...

Joseph Campbell had identified a pattern in all great myths, fairy tales and religious stories. George Lucas made a fortune after he learned the pattern. Disney revitalized a failing company after they followed it. So if you are writing, you should follow it too. Tolkien, Rowling, Lewis, and many more have!

Enjoy these animations about the pattern from the famous Ted Talk series.

How to Build a Fictional World

 

 

How Fiction Can Change Reality

 

 

What Makes a Hero

 

Paint Dancing

Pretty Darn Cool..

Here is something I started years ago with the Bogus Quartet back in the Bleacher days...
I learned it from watching That's Incredible in the 80's.

Creation of a Beautiful Illustration!

Look at all of the colors...

This is a pretty cool watercolor video of the process of illustration. Have a look and tell us how you liked it below.

Some Cool Old School Animation

Creepy....Cool....

 

Fran Kafka's Metamorphosis!