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Published: 2017-10-07 20:52:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 361; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 0
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Description Speedball super black india ink and staedler pigment liner on paper

Illustration for "blue beard". You can find this story in "the blue fairy book" page 246
Here's the book
My first year of doing inktober!! WOOOHOOO \(^o^)/Ok so for this challenge I decided to illustrate 31 short stories! And I picked two old fairy tales books I found online. They're "the blue fairy book" and "the orange fairy book" by Andrew Lang
I'll leave the links here for you to download them for free (I know the site is in Italian, but don't worry the stories are in English)
http://it.feedbooks.com/book/4037/the-blue-fairy-book
http://it.feedbooks.com/book/6021/the-orange-fairy-book
So every day I'll upload my illustration, but I won't put the text in the description. On the other way, I'll write the name of the story, the book I took it from and the page where you can find it, so you can follow me along during this adventure and don't worry I picked the shortest among all of them 
That's it! I hope you'll enjoy my works an the stories I chose! 
Happy Inktober everyone!! ^_^
And yes, he should have a blue beard, but I decided to stick to the black and white theme for this inktober
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Comments: 10

MegapixelMasterpiece [2017-10-08 21:24:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow this is very powerful work!

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Booksdust In reply to MegapixelMasterpiece [2017-10-08 22:40:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!
The story is about this girl who marries a man with a blue beard, but then she discoveres he killed all his previous wives! so he tries to kill her too, but her brothers save her by killing him and then inherit all his possessions.
I wanted to portray the toxic relationship between the two protagonists...do you think it's too much? Maybe I should turn the mature content filter on :/

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MegapixelMasterpiece In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-09 13:19:56 +0000 UTC]

Oh no it’s not too much I think it’s just right!
Thanks for telling me the story, I’ve not heard this one before. I appreciate the piece even more now!

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Booksdust In reply to MegapixelMasterpiece [2017-10-09 21:15:40 +0000 UTC]

Great!! I'm glad you like it^^
Yeah, I picked old stories because people don't know them and because they're full of weird stuff xD

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MegapixelMasterpiece In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-10 21:18:53 +0000 UTC]

And weird stuff opens lots of doors to create awesome things

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Booksdust In reply to MegapixelMasterpiece [2017-10-11 20:24:35 +0000 UTC]

very true! that's why I like them

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FrerinHagsolb [2017-10-07 21:19:02 +0000 UTC]

Really cool illustration!

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Booksdust In reply to FrerinHagsolb [2017-10-08 21:16:18 +0000 UTC]

thanks for the compliment Floris   

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FrerinHagsolb In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-09 05:43:27 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome!

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Booksdust In reply to FrerinHagsolb [2017-10-09 21:16:13 +0000 UTC]

 

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