Fable Friday: Rapunzel

A little different post this week! This one definitely follows more what I was doing last winter where it is more illustration based than character design based, but I was inspired to make something that looks like an old children’s book! This illustration is based on the original story of Rapunzel, where a man and woman are struggling to have a baby and the only thing that can cure the woman’s depression is a plant inside the next-door neighbor’s garden – the plant rampion, or rapunzel. This leads to the man jumping the fence and stealing the plant for his wife. The witch that lived there is vengeful, and demands their child as repayment for the theft – and her name is Rapunzel, after the plant that was stolen.