Finally i can upload something proper about these dweebs. I wanted to do a design on the well known fairytale Thumbelina In a style that is similar but not close enough to disney. And to be honest i’m super happy with out both her and the prince turned out. I Plan on drawing up the other characters as well but i really wanted to show off these two whom i have fallen in love with incredibly.
Ever after he we was elected as member of the Royal Academy of Arts, Waterhouse studied on a Diploma Work. Sketches dating back to 1892, finally resulted in this work that was donated in 1901. The young woman’s desire of human love, the attention to her hair and the association with water can be traced all the way back to one of Waterhouse’s earliest paintings (Undine in 1872).
Mermaids were a very popular theme in English art after Hans Christian Andersen wrote his fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” in 1836.
the recent problems with my husband’s healt inspire me to make a study about The Snow Queen. I dreamed this color palette and i think it’s pretty interesting the effect. Hope you like it, this is the first one, but i’ll publish a whole series of illustrations about this fairy tale.
New#mermaid illustration featuring the beautiful Halle Bailey as Princess Ariel. I’m very excited to see this new fresh take of The Little Mermaid. Also I want to mention this… I was listening to Halle’s music at some point while I was working on this piece and I must say… she sounds incredible… especially the high notes! She has a very siren-like voice! I wonder if they’ll give her any new songs to sing in the new movie?
I was having an art block recently and I wasn’t happy with the result of many of my recent artworks so I decided to go back to a piece that I started last Summer (around June I think) but I never really completed.. I ended up completely redoing the Background and the Mermaid’s tail and I have to say…. I quite like the result now and I hope you all will like this Little Mermaid #artworktoo!
Since it’s Free Comic Book Day, I figured I’d share my short comic from the Valor Anthology, The Nettle-Witch, (pretty loosely) based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans. Something about the imagery and the locations in the story always made it one of my favourites to read as a kid, and I tried to get some of that feeling into the look of my comic.
Since Facebook keeps showing me ads for it, I have this and only this to say about Disney’s up-coming film Frozen: I really like The Snow Queen. Lapps. Fins. Gratuitous religious symbolism. Talking flowers. Talking crows. Talking motherfucking REINDEER. Boy doesn’t save girl from physical peril, girl saves boy from MORAL AND EXISTENTIAL PERIL. By literally CRYING ALL OVER HIM. You’re going to have a hard time not fucking this one up for me, Disney.
I need more fairytales written by current day authors.
I need anthologies or even poetry like “The Lives of Saints” / “The Language of Thorns” by Leigh Bardugo and “Fierce Fairytales” / “Great Goddesses” by Nikita Gill.
They’re a necessity and if you have recommendations please leave them in the replies
When the Little Mermaid’s turn comes, she rises up to the surface, watches a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a safe distance. Then a violent storm hits, sinking the ship, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here, the Little Mermaid waits until a young woman from the temple and her ladies in waiting find him. To her dismay, the prince never sees the Little Mermaid or even realizes that it was she who had originally saved his life.
The Little Mermaid becomes melancholy and asks her grandmother if humans can live forever. The grandmother explains that humans have a much shorter lifespan than a mermaid’s 300 years but that they have an eternal soul that lives on in heaven, while mermaids turn to sea foam at death and cease to exist. The Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, visits the Sea Witch who lives in a dangerous part of the ocean. The witch willingly helps her by selling her a potion that gives her legs in exchange for her beautiful voice, as the Little Mermaid has the most enchanting voice in the entire world. The witch warns the Little Mermaid that once she becomes a human, she will never be able to return to the sea. Consuming the potion will make her feel as if a sword is being passed through her body, yet when she recovers, she will have two human legs and will be able to dance like no human has ever danced before. However, she will constantly feel as if she is walking on sharp knives. In addition, she will obtain a soul only if she wins the love of the prince and marries him, for then a part of his soul will flow into her. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries someone else, the Little Mermaid will die with a broken heart and dissolve into sea foam upon the waves.
After she agrees to the arrangement, the Little Mermaid swims up to the surface near the prince’s castle and drinks the potion. The liquid feels like a sword piercing through her body and she passes out on the shore, naked. She is found by the prince, who is mesmerized by her beauty and grace, even though she is mute. Most of all, he likes to see her dance, and she dances for him despite suffering excruciating pain with every step. Soon, the Little Mermaid becomes the prince’s favorite companion and accompanies him on many of his outings but he does not fall in love with her at all. When the prince’s parents encouraged their son to marry the neighboring princess in an arranged marriage, the prince tells the Little Mermaid he will not because he does not love the princess. He goes on to say he can only love the young woman from the temple, who he believes rescued him. It turns out that the princess from the neighboring kingdom was the temple woman, as she was sent to the temple for her education. The prince declares his love for her, and the royal wedding is announced at once.
The mermaid sisters give the knife to The Little Mermaid.
The prince and princess celebrate their new marriage aboard a wedding ship, and the Little Mermaid’s heart breaks. She thinks of all that she has sacrificed and of all the pain she has endured for the prince. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her, but before dawn, her sisters rise out of the water and bring her a dagger that the Sea Witch has given them in exchange for their long, beautiful hair. If the Little Mermaid kills the prince and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid once more, all her suffering will end, and she will live out her full life in the ocean with her family. However, the Little Mermaid cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping prince lying with his new wife, and she throws the dagger and herself off the ship into the water just as dawn breaks. Her body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warm sun and discovers that she has turned into a luminous and ethereal earthbound spirit, a daughter of the air. As the Little Mermaid ascends into the atmosphere, she is greeted by other daughters, who tell her she has become like them because she strove with all her heart to obtain an immortal soul. Because of her selflessness, she is given the chance to earn her own soul by doing good deeds for mankind for 300 years, and will one day rise up into Heaven.
Tattoo idea: a dagger with a blood swirling in water pattern at the tip of the blade, the blood weaving into the mermaids hair and the mermaid turning to sea foam
The tattoo design I commissioned turned out so well. No, you do not have permission to use this exact image for your tattoo, but you can use the concept
![“The Transformation” - The Little Mermaid [x]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/49d6528d45c72b51ae423d9158300a35/tumblr_msbbwiXqfk1sff208o1_1280.jpg "“The Transformation” - The Little Mermaid [x]")
