The Snow Queen is a story by Hans Christian Andersen published in 1844. The story begins with a troll/devil making a mirror that reflects only the bad and ugly in people and in the world. The troll and his pupils take the mirror up into the heavens to laugh at the angels but the mirror slips from their grasp and falls to the Earth breaking apart into many many tiny pieces that fall into people’s hearts and eyes, freezing them and making them see only the bad and ugly,
On Earth there lives a girl named Gerda and her best friend in the world, Kai. They’re best friend, growing up together since they were little and they like to play in their little garden between their houses. One day, however, a splinter of the troll mirror falls down into Kai’s eyes and slices through his heart, freezing it, and he no longer wants to be friends with Gerda and becomes an ugly and bad person. In winter, he’s taken away by the Snow Queen when he tries to hook his sled to her carriage.
Everyone in the village says he most likely drowned but Gerda doesn’t want to believe it because she still loves him even though he became such a nasty person. She goes on a long long quest to find him and eventually finds him, melts the slices of the troll mirror in his eyes and heart with her love and tears and rescues him from the Snow Queen. They get home safe and well.
And inktober is finally and officially done!! I greatly enjoyed it this year even though it took me so long to actually finish it but unfortunately I have other stuff to do besides drawing too. Maybe I shouldn’t have done full illustrations like I did but I really enjoyed making them and also learned lots of new stuff, about origins of stories, read about some toher interesting stories I didn’t know before, about historical fashion other than the 18th century I usually go for with my drawings because it’s the stuff I know the best. Looking forward to the next year :3
