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Fairy Tale Bionics

             Going back to the Brothers Grimm and even to today's Disney movies, fairy tales have always illustrated characters and scenes certain ways to give off a sense of personality and setting. In days when fairy tales were only written, the illustrations were the primary things that the readers had to go off of to help their imagination when reading these magical tales that depend on mental pictures. These illustrations were drawn by the illustrator using artistic detail to give the reader an idea of their personality since it is usually depicted by their looks. Furthermore, the setting was often depicted in illustrations so that the reader has an idea of what atmosphere the tale is taking place in which gives the tale its mood. The only question is to what scenes to draw and depict with pictures to show the reader its main setting. Fairy tale illustrations use visual design and facial expressions to show the character's personality and to bring fantasy into our real world.
             In order for an illustrator to give life to a picture they must know how to use artistic detail to give it the richness it needs. In fairy tales, old and new, these same details were necessary to give the tales the life it needed to become alive. Looking at these illustrations inside the tales, one can see how much detail some of the characters had especially in their facial expressions. The mouth and eyebrow area is where illustrators focused since the expressions in these areas can show what each character is expressing or feeling. This occurs especially with the first picture of "Hans My Hedgehog" in Grimm's Grimmest since the mother is depicted to be astonished with details such as her eyebrows being lifted and jaw being dropped (Field 201). What this specific detail does for the reader is give the tale a set mood in which the human mother of the hedgehog is not especially pleased with her son. In other tales too does this artistic detail give life to the characters and set them apart from each other helping the reader fully understand the story and in turn understand exactly what the message or point is.


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