Glass Coffin Illustration

This project was to choose a lesser known story and do illustrations of three key points in the tale.  I choose "The Glass Coffin" by the Brothers Grimm.  The basic story is of a kingdom ruled by a prince and princess who have everything taken from them by a shape-changing Sorceror who lusted after the princess.  He turned the prince into a stag, shrink the castle, its town and all its subjects, and imprisoned them in a glass coffin, as well as the princess, whom he placed under a sleeping spell as vengeance for refusing his advances.



This image is the confrontation between the prince as a stag and the sorceror as a bull.

Finished image.  I'm happy with this.  I'm also out of time.  If I can get to the out of time point and actually be happy with something, then that's terrific!

 Color blocking

Value Blocking

Final Sketch as starting point for painting