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Depressing Faerie Letters

Alphabet Wallpapers

30 March 2010

Been meaning to make these up for a while… Faerie Alphabet Desktop Wallpapers!
Thus far i’ve only done A and B… but i’ve got a simple template for them so it shouldn’t take long to do the rest.
And it occurred to me after doing A i could swap A and S: A for Angry and S [...]

L is for Little: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

9 November 2009

A little faerie-girl, with her big bad demon shadow backing her up in case of temper-tantrums…
Originally i was going to make the little girl really little, more like toddler-aged; but the whole small-child-as-a-demon thing seems a bit overdone. Yeah, even by me. I like doing child-demons. But not for this one. Temperamental pre-teen was more [...]

J is for Joint: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

29 October 2009

A half-breed fae of two different races. Originally, she was meant to be an amputee with a steampunk-style wing replacing the amputated one, but i liked the idea of a half-breed child flaunting her mixed heritage better… plus it seemed like a prosthetic wing would be more likely to be designed to imitate the original [...]

S is for Strong: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

15 September 2009

A faerie facing down a particular type of Celtic ogre, the Buggane.
The buggane typically don’t wander far from home, and (most of) their dealings with the Fae involve faeries sending them out to punish humans who have ticked off the Fae. This little sprite must have done something awfully horrible, then… but at least she’s [...]

A is for Anthropomorphism: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

10 September 2009

Based on the legend of the Selkies, seal-like creatures who could shed their skins to become beautiful humans.
Selkie legends claim if a Selkie’s skin is stolen, she loses any ability to return to her seal form or the sea from which she came. Typically, the legends only describe instances in which a fisherman steals a [...]

B is for Bean Sí: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

8 September 2009

Zomg two pages together! Um, the final book won’t actually have any two images together like this, because there’ll be descriptions and legends and maybe even some outright faerie-tales mixed in – which is good, because compositionally speaking, these don’t look so great together. But i wanted to see what the book would look like [...]

C is for Caution: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

27 August 2009

Roughly based on the scene in “Macbeth” in which the witches bring forth three apparitions to prophecy to him, including a head which warns him to beware Macduff.
I’m not a big fan of Shakespeare – “Macbeth” is one of his few plays which i consider at least tolerable. I don’t find the overall plot particularly [...]

U is for Unwrap: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

20 August 2009

Another Depressing Faerie Letter which was supposed to be for

P is for Patient: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

13 August 2009

Another new page for the Depressing Faerie Letters. It was originally meant to be based on the Illustration Friday theme again (this week: Impatience), but i’m already pretty happy with I is for Idle and ended up doing opposites instead – the impatient little fae, whose tiny wings haven’t yet developed enough for her to [...]

M is for Modify: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book

6 August 2009

I kind of babble in this post. Read the whole thing if you want to know the backstory of the fae. Or skip ahead to me squeeing over skateboards.
New page for my Faerie Alphabet Book, inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, Modify.
There’s a documentary show called Taboo, which i haven’t seen in years but was [...]

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