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Ensemble of five animals from Aesop's Fables going from rough model sheets to gestural sketches to a final illustration. For a more detailed look at an individual project through sketches, pencil drawings, and thumbnails, click on one of the images below. Often, I will create a series of sketches, pencil drawings, or thumbnails using reference as well as my own imagination and ask for critique, then refine from there. Sometimes, I will transfer a sketch using a light table or a scanner with Canson paper or into a digital program to serve as base for a render. I create a more polished piece, seek out more feedback from those who are my superiors alongside my colleagues; finish the piece to the best of my ability. French Revolution inspired concept done traditionally, going from pencil drawing to final render.

Collection of nine 8.5" x 5.5" digital images depicting different scenes of Aesop's Fables and a mock up of what a page may potentially look like. Back in 2015 I created a series of drypoint prints in response to a well loved Aesop's fable 'The Lion, Wolf and Fox'. Illustration has always been an interest of mine, however these prints were made to stand alone without the story to accompany them, therefore making the fable a starting point for the work. I am an illustrator who attended The Art Institute of Seattle, who attained a bachelor's degree from the Media Arts and Animation program. With a deep affinity for art and animation, I have an aesthetic that clearly reflects the latter. Fond of working traditionally and digitally, in the mixing the two I find the best results.

Strong color and distinctive expressive lighthearted character designs with complementary props alongside backgrounds in reference to the cartoonists that came before me are characteristic of my art. Both the creative camaraderie of a team and the personal cultivation of working independently appeals to me. I will gladly incorporate critique to improve a piece, adapting to employer/client needs. Often, I work with After Effects, Audition, Photoshop, and Flash; Maya can be operated as well. As Randy has pointed out in his introduction to this “Myth Beyond Words” series, the visual medium of illustration presents a challenge for storytellers. In this article, I will examine some early illustrations of Aesop’s fables from the 1479 edition of Aesop’s fables authored by Heinrich Steinhowel, one of the great humanist scholars of the early Renaissance.

Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the text of Steinhowel’s fables was translated into many different European languages, and the accompanying woodcuts (nearly 200 of them) were also widely copied. These woodcuts demonstrate an ambitious attempt to use single-panel illustrations to depict the plots of a fables, while also showing how the illustrations themselves can yield new versions of the tales and become part... A typical fable usually has a two-part plot sequence: the confrontation, and the outcome. Unlike modern comic book art, where a plot sequence can be shown in a series of panels, in these illustrations the artist uses only one panel to depict the plot. In that one panel, the artist may depict the confrontation, or the outcome, or both, as you can see in the examples below. In each case, however, the reader must still apply additional information in order to get a mental picture of the whole story.

That additional information might come from the text, or it might come from the storytelling tradition itself, since many of these fables were well established in European folklore and well known in the oral... In the famous story of the wolf and the lamb, for example, the wolf accuses the lamb of muddying the water, while the lamb protests that he is innocent; this is the confrontation. The wolf eats the lamb anyway; this is the outcome. The artist has chosen to render the confrontation scene, including the important detail that the lamb is drinking downstream from the wolf. Any reader who knows the fable already can supply the outcome based on what they see here. From Steinhowel’s Aesop, 1479.

View larger image » For an illustration which shows the outcome instead, consider the frog and the mouse. The frog offered to help the mouse cross the stream, and the mouse tied itself to the frog so that it would not drown. The treacherous frog then plunges under the water, trying to drown the mouse; this is the confrontation. In the outcome, a passing kite swoops down and carries away both the mouse and the frog. For readers who know the story, the confrontation is can be easily deduced from the dramatic denouement.

This piece is a revised cover art for the Aesop Fairy Tale "The Lion and the Mouse". This story is about a lion who doesn't kill a mouse. The mouse then saves the lion later by chewing rope that captured the lion. This project relates to life as consideration of others will often lead to better outcomes in the future.

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