This old sketch was done entirely with the mouse, and it doesn’t get any bigger than this. I think I did it to test the fairy tale princess in a tunic and surcoat look, for her “fish out of water” moments.

I love that the green surcoat matches her eyes.

I just found this sketch lying around and thought she looked like she was doing her best impersonation of Cupid, since her feet aren’t touching the ground. Don’t ask me why I drew it like that; I have no idea, aside from laziness and an urge to draw dainty, pointed feet.

I’ve just discovered; she must have magical levitation powers! ; )

I had no idea what to post for Christmas until this vague image came into my head. I referenced England’s Rochester Castle for the classic castle outline. The background is unfinished.

I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas.

Perhaps owing to my mother’s lifelong love of horses, I have long adored draft horses and war horses. So, clearly, the princess needed a strong horse to ride in her adventures. Her story shall be full of rounceys, coursers and even a destrier.

This sketch is clearly older but I still like the structure of the horse. For some reason the princess has curled up on the saddle to take a nap… perhaps that’s why she chose such a large mount.

Yet another little pencil sketch of the fairy tale princess from the “set” of her playing with her hair. This is a style of hair that I have come to call a “half bun”, since her hair is so long that a proper bun would be ginormous!

Hmm… she’s looking oddly flirty again…

I thought I’d post another sketch from the “set” of the fairy tale princess playing with her hair. This time she’s using it as a shawl … and looking oddly flirty. How did that happen?

Pencil sketch of the fairy tale princess, done with several other sketches of her playing with her hair, which I have yet to post.

Ever since I learned that the story of Rapunzel goes back to the Italian tale of Petrosinella (1634), I couldn’t help picturing Rapunzel/Petrosinella as a dark, beautiful, Renaissance woman. So I did this little sketch on the computer. I like her with dark hair; Rapunzel is almost universally portrayed as a blond.

It is impossible to overhype this masterpiece.
I shall never outdo myself! My art shall forever be haunted by the magnificent illustrations for this book. Everything I have done before and everything I do after will pale in comparison. Your soul will weep with the beauty . . .
Okay, I’m done blatantly lying to you.

“The Little Book of Misfortune Cookies” at Amazon.com
Written by Josh Williamson, cover by Brina Williamson, illustrations by Anna Williamson.

Yes, that’s a rhinoceros sitting on that poor stickman.

The fairy tale princess in all her apricot-tressed glory. Done in pencil on one sheet of 8.5×11 paper. I almost never draw full-page sketches; they’re usually only a few inches tall, a bunch crammed onto one page.
Drawing all that hair detail was so fun! (I know; I’m insane) Sometimes it’s almost like Celtic knots. It got so complicated that I scanned it so I could fill in the color to see what was hair and what was not.