Illustrations for "Beauty and The Beast"

These 5 illustrations from 2013 were my final project at the university, where I studied book illustration.Fairy tales have always been a huge inspiration for my work, especially back in my university years. During that time, I was also obsessed with researching the origins and various retellings of fairy tales, and I was certain (and foolish enough!) that I wanted illustrations to be my own version of the story, not just illustrate a specific version.

"Once upon a time..."

"...two tusks in his mouth and fiery eyes surrounded by bristles, and horns coming out of its head and spreading over its back.”

“If he knocks on your bedroom door, do not let him in, however much he asks and begs, not the first night, not the second night, and especially not the third night.”

“There appears then an enormous serpent.”

“At last she came to the rosebush from which her father had plucked the rose, and there, under it....There was the beast lying huddled up without any life or motion.”