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Some of you are probably wondering where I've been for the past few months, well along with my dissertation; for my first negotiated study I've been working on an Aesop Fables related product. My initial goal was to produce a series of colour plate illustrations based on scenes from well known fables; with a boarder to accompany each one. For me the stories of Aesop have managed to stand the test of time like any good story is because of the morals he presented. These stories are not only easy enough for anyone to understand, but they had characters with situations we could learn from. The appeal of them comes from some of them being anthropomorphic creatures and how exaggerated their settings were.

By representing these fables with my artistic style, I used these fables as a way to develop my use of narrative, it gave me a chance to work with morals and how to depict them in interesting ways. I would also use them as a way to develop my use of composition in scenery. I worked hard on this project and I'm proud of what came out of them. They were a simple step into illustrating well known stories, and hopefully they'll springboard me into adapting other classic literature.

My interpretation of the Fox and the Stork, in which a Stork attempts to give a mean spirited fox a taste of his own medicine (or meal). This scene would depict the Fox's struggle to eat like the Stork, who indulges in his own revenge. The best part of this for me was experimenting with the bright contrasting colours with the characters. I also decided to give the vases different designs for the same purpose, for example the fox's vase is made as pottery from ancient Greece. The image on the pot of the woman eating grapes was made to allude to the fable "The Fox and the Grapes".

It just felt great to do a piece with animal characters, it was also the first time I've did a piece of artwork based on the story I could remember. Tell me if I did justice to the original fable and be sure to check out the other colours plates in this series.

Description
Some of you are probably wondering where I've been for the past few months, well along with my dissertation; for my first negotiated study I've been working on an Aesop Fables related product. My initial goal was to produce a series of colour plate illustrations based on scenes from well known fables; with a boarder to accompany each one. For me the stories of Aesop have managed to stand the test of time like any good story is because of the morals he presented. These stories are not only easy enough for anyone to understand, but they had characters with situations we could learn from. The appeal of them comes from some of them being anthropomorphic creatures and how exaggerated their settings were.

By representing these fables with my artistic style, I used these fables as a way to develop my use of narrative, it gave me a chance to work with morals and how to depict them in interesting ways. I would also use them as a way to develop my use of composition in scenery. I worked hard on this project and I'm proud of what came out of them. They were a simple step into illustrating well known stories, and hopefully they'll springboard me into adapting other classic literature.

My interpretation of the Fox and the Stork, in which a Stork attempts to give a mean spirited fox a taste of his own medicine (or meal). This scene would depict the Fox's struggle to eat like the Stork, who indulges in his own revenge. The best part of this for me was experimenting with the bright contrasting colours with the characters. I also decided to give the vases different designs for the same purpose, for example the fox's vase is made as pottery from ancient Greece. The image on the pot of the woman eating grapes was made to allude to the fable "The Fox and the Grapes".

It just felt great to do a piece with animal characters, it was also the first time I've did a piece of artwork based on the story I could remember. Tell me if I did justice to the original fable and be sure to check out the other colours plates in this series.