First project for my children's book class, fully illustrated page out of an existing fairy tale. This is from a shorted form of Thumbelina, the scene where the sparrow takes her away from her situation of having to marry the dull flower-hating mole. This one's a two page spread, I REALLY wanted to do some scene with the sparrow, prefereably an in flight one. ^^ Sometimes I wish the story would have ended here; "the sparrow spirited Thumbelina away from the Mole and Mouse, and they lived happily ever after having adventure after adventure flying about the wide beatiful world as free spirits." Why does Thumbelina have to get married anyway.

Done in watercolour and coloured pencil. No critiques please, I got PLENTY from class. ^^ In fact, I actually altered a couple things in response to their critiques, including photoshoping her neck to be shorter. I'm sure it still looks too long, but at least now she's not a giraffe. I'll upload my storyboard sketches to scraps sometime soon.

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