More Sketches - Marker and ink

Alla Marcia

Inspired by the Sibelius piece

Untitled

 I love the pattern of green I got.

Consigned

This was a piece of  art I did just to see how it would look. The one I was talking with had just drawn "My Little Pony" characters playing Samishen.
I decided to follow him up on that... it had to be the newest generation of ponies (I know very little of the other generations, my brain shuts down when I try to sit through sexism that egregious), and for simplicity's sake, I did the two who have telekinesis in their foreheads. (Look them up, you have the internet.)

The text is an approximate Kanji of a portion of "Madama Butterfly." In the first act, where she tells Pinkerton to "love me a little, like a child..." "We are a people used to small things, quiet and humble, but profound as the sky and deep as the ocean." It's a gorgeous bit of recitative.
It was written on a catalogue-card about 2.5"x3", so my hand cramped pretty badly. Let me know if it's legible, if you're a native speaker.

Sketches from "The Cunning Little Vixen"

   

Here, you can see a batch of sketches from a project I've been working on for a couple of years - an animated adaptation of Janacek's operetta "Prihody Lis'ky Bystrous'ky." In English, it's rendered as "The Cunning Little Vixen."

The tale of a vixen who, in childhood, is captured by a forester for a pet. After she escapes, she tries to reform an identity for herself, and he tries to recapture her to assert his masculinity to his friends.

It originated in a newspaper comic strip from the '20s... and it's already been adapted by the amazing Geoff Dunbar.

His adaptation preserves the opera, in English translation, almost perfectly, with designs adapted from the Newspaper comics.

I, though, want to do one in Czech storybook style, with a chamber reimagining of the sensitive-as-fuck score, and with a heavy adaptation of the major Feminist themes, because I think it does Janacek more justice in the medium.

Sharp-Ears, the titular vixen.

 

The Forester, who I think works better with no name, as did Janacek.

 

Harasta, the Poacher.