Older Illustrations - The Juniper Tree

These are from 'The Juniper Tree' by Brothers Grimm (My illustrated version). It is one of my absolute favorite Grimm fairy tales, I remember finding an old dusty copy of Grimms at my local library when I was about eleven. Reading it late into the night. Probably post more of these sometime. My personal favorite out of these three is blood in the snow.

The Evil Mother, Marleen and the boy.

This is from one of the projects I'm working on at the moment. I'm illustrating two Brothers Grimm stories for the ipad for a publisher focusing on illustrated electronic books. One of them is actually one of my all time favorite Grimm's tale. I remember taking out a dusty tome from my small town library at about age 9 or 10 and devouring story after story. Going back to the library and scouring the shelves for more. Here are  some work in process shots with the final image. Enjoy :)

Below: Rough sketch, composition check. Initial color check.

Below: Except for a few details, the finished piece.