Bright and colourful! (spoiler free)

[secondlina]

So, I saw Rise of the Guardians! It was really, really good! I think Wreck-it-Ralph had a more direct storyline and handled the emotions a lot better, but Rise of the Guardians had the EPIC and the AWESOME down to a T. I guess it's always like that though. Disney is better at making an emotional connection, and Dreamworks is better at creating sweeping universes composed of badasses.

The story kinda reminded me of the old books Frank Baum had written about Santa Claus, where Santa starts off as this normal dude and is eventually invested with the powers of fairies to give hope to children and protect them. I would not be surprised if that actually inspired in part the original book. 

My favorite was the Toothfairy. Expect art.

Christmas shopping season seems to have started - it's totes crazy at the bookstore. The schools and public libraries are also pulling out their end of the year budgets, so we are pretty much selling books as fast as we can shelve them. Which is good news for my boss, but the employees are kinda tired *laughs*

The drawing accompanying this post is something I made for my Grandmother for Christmas. Last year, I gave her a blown up version of a fairy tale drawing I made, which my parents had the good idea to print on canvas. She liked it so much that I wanted to give her another. You know, matching set. This time, I chose the fairy tale "the Seven Crows", but I kinda screwed it up. Actually, the fairy tale illustrated should have been the seven Swans, or the twelve crows. In both those fairy tales, a young princess sees her brothers turned into birds by an evil queen, and she needs to make them clothing out of plants for seven years without speaking to break the spell, which only gets harder when she meets the love of her life. The 7 crows, by Grimm, is actually pretty different. So, oops. It's a hybrid between the crows and the swans, it seems. 

Birds are hilariously fun to draw.

- Isa

Comments

[spankingfemme]

I've never read that fairy tale, now I'm intrigued :) It's always awesome to make grandma smile, and I'm sure she'll be quite pleased with your hybrid gift LOL! ;)

I'm going to see Wreck-it-Ralph next weekend! *squee!* What's Rise of the Guardians about?

Disney is usually better at tapping into emotion, but Dreamworks is getting better at it, and their villains aren't so two-dimensional in my opinion

[secondlina]

Rise of the guardians is about folk tale heroes (such as Santa) being an Avenger-like team tasked with protecting kids. Check the trailer on youtube. It's badass.

[may_lily]

So pretty! I love the Girl Who Saves Her Brothers stories. Nothing wrong with combining versions in my opinion; all the different kinds have something interesting to offer.

[secondlina]

Geenrally, fairy tales with badass ladies saving folks make my day.

[may_lily]

Agreed! And there's more such fairy tales than people think, but sadly they're not the ones that get attention.