Into the Woods - Granny

“The mouth of a wolf is not the end of the world!”

Into the Woods - The Wolf

“Hello little girl”

Into the Woods - Little Red

“The prettier the flower, the farther from the path”

Environment a Day: Day 20

Into the Woods is my favorite musical in the entire world. I listened to the soundtrack today and was inspired to do a little illustration of it.

“Into the woods and out of the woods and home before dark”

Environment a Day Summer Challenge: Day 2!

Here is a concept for the interior of the Little Red Huntress’s tree house. The style I’m going for this story is a monochrome of grey/blues, blacks, and whites. I want it to feel very cold. The interior of her house is very plain. She doesn’t have very many belongings except necessary items and maybe a few keepsakes, because she spends most of her time tracking down the wolf pack that the main wolf (the one who disguised himself as granny) was a part of. She has a plain bed on a mattress of straw and pine needles, her weapons are close by in case of any attack. She keeps a trophy wall of skulls from the wolves she has killed from the pack. And since there are no windows (to keep in the heat) the only lighting comes from candles which she keeps on a shelf she carved out of the tree her house is built around. The structure of the house is like a log cabin with mud and moss to fill in the cracks, and the roof is thatched straw.

I’m giving myself the challenge to draw an environment everyday. As an aspiring Visual Development artist I need to be able to create both characters AND environments, and right now…environments aren’t my most favorite things to draw. So! To make myself love environments more and to improve myself, for rest of the summer I am going to post either a sketch or a fully painted environment! HERE WE GO!!

To start out, I drew this idea for my Little Red Huntress’s tree house. I figured she’d live in a tree house because, as a vigilante wolf hunter, wolves can’t climb trees, so having a house in the trees would cancel out the opportunity for an attack while she sleeps. I also wanted her to live in this forest of very solemn plain trees, because it helps emphasize how closed off she is from the rest of the world. After the attack of the wolf, she becomes emotionally scared and goes into seclusion in the woods. The wolf was able to trick her into thinking he was her grandma, so she no longer knows who she can trust, and who is genuine. I wanted the forest to appear very quiet and introverted to express Little Red’s emotional state.

Little Red Huntress resting on the bank of a fjord….in Norway….The land of my people

Bringing back this Little Red Riding Hood turned hunter character that I thought of last summer. The story would take place after the attack of the wolf and set in the woods/fjords of Norway! (Cause Norway is the land of my people!!)