#aesopfables

[coffeenuts]

in sheep's clothing by s.w.Lepak https://flic.kr/p/2nbCVzD

[cowsparsley]

Soooo I’m sure there’s lots of things I could tweak and continously improve.... but here it is! My little adaption of The Fox and the Crow!

I’ve been working on this on and off for agggggges and It took way longer than I thought it would but I’m happy with it for now. This was my first time properly colouring and shading... usually I’m just doing a bunch of block colour - which is nice, it reminds me of my printmaking irl but I wanted to expand my skills and that’s what this project was about. I had a good time, I accomplished the ultimate goal even if there’s a few (many) things I’d like to go back and change, this was a good first attempt and I just don’t wanna work on this any longer! Excited for what comes next!

Anyway I’m super tired so I’m gonna go lie down.  Probably gonna edit this message so it makes more sense tomorrow. Ciao xxxx

[rptv1]

Shipwrecked Man (from Aesop’s Fables)

by Arthur Rackham

[gravitykuniverse]

florafunweek2021 Day 1: Firsts/Regrets

Have some of their backstory in RWBYPirates. Elm’s an Atlesian noble named Greta Rainhart forbidden from loving Vine, a farm boy. That doesn’t stop them from sneaking out and eventually having their first kiss. They’re soon caught by Elm’s mother and after a fight involving Vine’s family and authorities, Vine is forced into the Atlas Navy so that he won’t see Elm. This backfires when the ship he works on escorts Elm on a brief noble trip. Upon returning to Atlas, Elm disappears and eventually turns up in the Navy with cropped hair and her new name, Elm Ederne. Both are placed on the Aesopica under the command of Commodore Ebi. Things change however when the ship betrays the Atlesian Navy, Admiral Ironwood, and King Ozpin, but that’s a story for another day.

[gregoryhergert]

The Ant and The Grasshopper...this is my third painting for the fantastic group show Urban Aesop opening May 7th at Brassworks Gallery curated by @undergroundrobin with a tremendous group of artists @brassworksgallery @hifructosemag @juxtapozmag #urbansurrealism #aesopfables #hifructosemagazine #juxtapozmag #ants #grasshoppers #lifeonthestreets #urbanaesop #brassworksgallery #lowbrowpopsurrealists #pdxartist #portlandartist #gregoryhergert (at BrassWorks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/COeKgjSHOsN/?igshid=q15um40m7zpb

[cowsparsley]

I finally finished my lines for my fable comic!! Only took two months lol

ID below <3

[ID: A two page comic adaption of the ‘Fox and the Crow’ fable by Aespo.

Page 1, Panel 1: A crow flies above with a piece of cheese in her beak and  the fox stands below with one paw raised, looking up at her.

Panel 2: The crow continues her trajectory across a third panel. A line trailing behind her suggests she flew in a loop.

Panel 3: The crow has now landed on the branch of a pine tree.

Panel 4: The fox looks straight at the read and drools. This panel has been block coloured in so that the fox is orange with a white chest and cheeks. The ground is green and has some grass and flowers growing in patches. The sky is blue.

Panel 5: This panel sits in the righthand corner of the previous panel and is a cut out showing the crow surveying the land with the cheese still in her beak. The cheese is a small wheel with a slice having been cut out. It is also block coloured and the crow is a purple that is almost black, with a lighter colour for her beak. The cheese is a yellowish white.

Panel 6: The fox looks up to where the crow sits and his stomach begins to grumble.

Panel 7: The fox still looking upwards but now sitting, calls out to the crow and a speech bubble says “O Mrs. Crow!”. A different tree stands in the foreground on the right side of the panel, obscuring the rest of the view.

Panel 8: This is a closeup of the foxes face at a three quarter angle. He speaks with the first bubble being filled with pink diamonds suggesting gilded words. The second bubble reads “Sing! and they will surely proclaim you Queen of the Birds!”.

Panel 9: This panel is another cut out in the bottom right corner of the previous one. In it Mrs Crow imagines herself as Queen, and an imaginary golden crown appears on her head. It is also block coloured in much the same way as the previous cut out.

Page 2, Panel 10: Here we see a larger view of the crow with more details on her feathers. She still holds the cheese with lines suggesting waves of its smell wafting of it. She begins to puff out her chest, breathing in.

Panel 11:  Here we see her from a distance, atop her tree again. Three speech bubbles are filled with musical notes as she sings, unknowingly dropping her piece of cheese which plummets to the ground.

Panel 12: The cheese lands on the forest floor with a “Thud!”. It is surrounded by leaves and roots as well as a single worm that hurries away.

Panel 13: We now get a wider shot of the cheese which now lies on its side.  In addition to its other surroundings there is an acorn and another worm to its right. The clawed paw of the fox drops from the top of the panel, about to seize the cheese.

Panel 14: He picks up the cheese and smells it. The cheese is on the right of the panel and fills the space between itself and the fox with lines of cheesy odour and the the fox relaxes, a look of pleasure and contentment across his face.

Panel 15: This panel cuts back to Mrs. Crow who lets out a loud “GASP!”  on the right and has a look of anger across her face. A speech bubble coming from the bottom left says “Word of Advice Mrs. Crow,”.

Panel 16: This is a wide shot of the fox and the crow. The fox walks away leftwards and the crow looks on, angry. The panel is flanked by trees and the ground is lined with grass an flowers. A large speech bubble dominates the space with Mr. Fox saying “Don’t Trust Flatterers”. End ID]

[cowsparsley]

So this is kind of a break from the rest of this blog but I wanted to post it here for posterity! 

So yeah this is what I’ve been working on, an adaptation of the ‘Fox & the Crow’, one of Aesop’s Fables. It was one of my favourites as a child and I still have the collection of fables that I used to begin to learn to read French. The illustrations still really stick out on my mind and so its been nice to work on this comic when the story was a big piece of my childhood. It’s been slow progress after a flare up in April and demotivation in May, and a recent visit to stay with my bf and his family so I don’t go mad for the isolation. (I live alone and have spent most of the year not seeing other people for months at a time). BUT I’m still having a lot of fun and learning more about panel composition etc., even if I’m really bad at drawing animals! 

This whole thing is really about me learning to colour more than anything else, as well as to start experimenting with panel layout and to start doing finer line work with digital stuff, so I’m excited to work on that next and continue learning! Hopefully without the next steps being as drawn out...

[rptv1]

The Two Pots (from Aesop’s Fables)

by Arthur Rackham