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Fairy Tale #4

Little Red Riding HoodHi and welcome to the your fourth fairy tale assignment... “Little Red Riding Hood!”

I chose this tale because I wanted to explore the “dark side” of fairy tales, and the wolf

and forest provide a great opportunity to do that. Also, many of you named it as a

childhood favorite! I’m really excited to see your interpretations of this one!

This month your assignment is stripped down to a single “storyboarding” task.

Have fun, and email me anytime! [email protected].

Let’s Begin!

Fairy Tale #4 • Little Red Riding Hood

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mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Assignment

“Storyboard” Little Red Riding Hood

A storyboard is a sequential series of thumbnail sketches which visually maps out the

story, page by page, or spread by spread. ( A “spread” or “double-page spread” is what

any two open pages in a book or magazine is called.)

This is where you figure out what characters, environments, and actions will go on each

page. It’s also another way to begin working out your compositional ideas.

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STEP 1

Go to a Coffee Shop

This is of course an optional step, but I highly recommend it! Set aside some time and

remove yourself from your normal environment for a few hours with your story and

sketchbook. I went to a coffee shop, but a library, a conference room, or even your car

would work!


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STEP 2

Read and Write

Choose a version of the story. I have provided in the PDF a version that I remembered

from my childhood, but you might prefer another found at this site...

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html#wratislaw

... or the version from your native country.

Read your story slowly. Write down 10-15 words that describes each paragraph or couple

of paragraphs (sections). I wrote down verbs, nouns, adjectives... anything that came to

mind.


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Don’t worry at this point how many sections you have at this point; just break the text

down into sections that made sense to you at the moment.

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STEP 3

Visual Note-Taking

Next, divide several sketchbook pages into 6-8 boxes and began to systematically go

through each section and draw visual notes.


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Sometimes you might need more than one box to explore an idea. For example,

whenever I came upon an item that I didn’t know how to draw, I’d look up images on my

smartphone to help me. For example, I searched for images of 1800 German bonnet, cap,

girl hat, etc., and then just sketched as many as I could find.

This research will help you when you begin to develop your characters.


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STEP 4

Storyboard

First, decide whether you want to storyboard a 32-page children’s book or a 12-page

magazine spread. I have provided layouts for both here for you to print out (or you can

make your own!).

12-Page Layout:

http://www.carlasonheim.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FT4article121.pdf

32-Page Layout:

http://www.carlasonheim.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FT4childrenbook32.pdf


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I decided to work with 32 pages.

This is the fun part! It’s like a puzzle...

Sometimes you will need to combine some ideas into one illustration in order to make it

fit. Alternatively, you might find that you need to stretch out a scene or section, and try to

interpret it visually in different ways.

You can decide to leave space to incorporate text, or simply choose to have the story read

on one page and the illustration on the other page.

Spend 15-30 minutes on your storyboard. Next time we will chose some spreads to

illustrate!


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Three Extra Credit Assignments

Extra Credit #1

Start to develop your characters... Red Riding Hood, the wolf, granny, the huntsman....

Use the character development techniques from our first lesson (“The Frog Princess”), or

begin finding your own “best” way to develop your character.

Extra Credit #2

Research how other illustrators have handled forests. Here are some I found around the

net to get you started!

http://evanira.deviantart.com/art/Little-Red-Riding-Hood-370301983

http://noctillucca.deviantart.com/art/Little-Red-Riding-Hood-356182678

http://www.deviantart.com/art/french-red-riding-hood-68161157

http://www.artsycraftsy.com/goble/goble_red_riding.html

http://www.redbubble.com/people/minoule/works/9089881-little-red-riding-hood-in-denial

http://www.tonightsbedtimestory.com/little-red-riding-hood/

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Little-Red-Riding-Hood-Illustrations/542873

https://wordsthroughtheglass.wordpress.com/tag/red-riding-hood/

https://www.etsy.com/listing/123315134/little-red-riding-hood-and-the-wolf?ref=sr_gallery_42&ga_search_query=wolf&ga_ship_to=ZZ&ga_page=3&ga_favorite_listing_id=124669246&ga_show_panel=true&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_view_type=gallery


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Extra Credit #3

Get creative with the story itself and do a rewrite; storyboard your new story.

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