#illustration anansi

[kiskutnya]

A friendly(..?) spider greets you~!

He's inspired by Anansi :)

[extraordinary-heroes]

Static Team-Up: Anansi #1 (Cover art by Charles Stewart III)

[detroyteck]

Lavender

[bobbole]

Francis Vallejo - illustration for Anansi Boys

[vampirepyramidscheme]

"Come on in, little fly..."

My take on Anansi, the trickster of West African folklore.

See more of my work here:

Patreon | Kofi | Website

[gustavorinaldi]

The Misadventures of Little Red Riding Hood Part IV

[wintermahalo]

OC POST!!!

Drawing Anansi again because I've become slightly fixated on him >_<

[captainbool-bool]

12. «spicey»

2. «spiders»

8. «toad»

[necrealm]

Happy Halloween!!! 🎃 🕷️ 🕸️

[dedisgone]

just some scrappy doodles ive done lately !!

[zagan-akerman]

Inktober Día 10 - Gordo Charlie le habla a la araña

Entonces le vino a la cabeza algo que le había dicho la señora Higgler, y las palabras salieron de su boca sin que él se diera ni cuenta. A lo mejor fue cosa del diablo que llevaba dentro. Probablemente fuera más bien el alcohol. —Si ves a mi hermano —le dijo Gordo Charlie a la araña—, dile que debería dejarse caer por aquí un día de éstos para saludar. La araña se quedó dónde estaba y levantó una pata, casi como si estuviera pensándoselo y, luego, echó a andar por la losa en dirección al seto y desapareció.

[detroyteck]

Little friends

[shahabartprojects]

Why Anansi has got eight thin legs

illustrations for " Why Anansi has got eight thin legs " , a traditional fable from Africa

[solradguy]

Woke up this morning after having a dream about an absolutely gorgeous dragon anthology with an embroidered green and teal cover that featured a dragon and have been googling dragon stories since

I rubbed my mind's eye all over it in the dream. Further details:

In the dream, I went to a bookstore. The book was $40. I did not have $40 and it was extremely painful.

Cover: embroidered green and shades of blue/teal illustration of a western dragon hovering over a field of flowers and tall grass with a naturalistic border all done in an art nouveau style.

Hardback.

The book may have been handbound. It was the only copy at the store.

Inside: illustrations in a similar art style as the cover but just the inks, no colored interior illustrations.

The illustrations and cover may have been subconsciously inspired by the slipcase edition of Le Morte d'Arthur by Race Point Publishing (2017), which I own. I can't find pictures of the interior online, but it's got the original Aubrey Beardsley pieces. This dream book had as many illustrations as it, they were all over the place. Almost one per page.

It was quite similar to Andrew Lang's 7th edition (1906) print of The Green Fairy Book but I didn't know about it until after the dream when I started researching green dragon books lol

Pages: cream in color and cold press. I think my brain lifted this from the 2011 Barnes & Noble edition of Neil Gaiman's American Gods/Anansi Boys leather hardback (which I also own).

Kelly green silk bookmark

About 400 pages long

The table of contents fit on just one page, so there weren't that many stories despite it being around 400 total pages

They were all complete short stories, no excerpts

The stories were generally sympathetic towards the dragons. Edith Nesbit's The Last of the Dragons is a good example of the general vibe.

Some were from the perspective of the dragons

The stories were generally mature and not targeted towards younger audiences

They were all monstrous-type dragons, no anthros or furry adjacent ones. I don't think any of the dragons ever took on a temporary human form but they may have in parts of some stories.

I struggle reading text in dreams and don't know the names of any of the stories but the title of the book itself was no more than about 5 words

I have been furiously scribbling thumbnails in my sketchbook all morning and I have to go out for the day to get routine bloodwork done and I'm dying. I could make this book real

[chilewithcarnage]

📄 What was your favorite children's book?

this made me have to do a little research but I'm going off of early childhood and there's so many idk if could just pick one, we're gonna do top 4

Amazing Grace by Mary Koffman and The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

both of these books I loved I am much and had huge impact on me a small black child. the illustrations I think are what propelled me into really wanting to become an artist. I remember tracing/attempting to copy the paintings with pencils and crayons. this was the first time I had witnessed children that looked like me and people that looked like my family members in the form of a book. Grace was a spunky confident girl that wanted to be an actress and my favorite part of the book is when she played Anansi in her school play. The snowy day always made me so happy and nostalgic for winter. I can't remember a whole lot of what happens in the book but I know it always gave me a warm cozy feeling and a want to play to play in the snow come every December.

Third and fourth are The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and Sheila McGraw. Very touching stories that I hold near and dear to me. Love and sacrifice, and how love changes as we and the ones we care about age and change. Most vivid memories I have is being read these by my late cousin Megan and how they remind me of the summer sleepovers me and my sis would have over at her house and how she was nothing short of like a big sister to us (in fact the tears streaming from my eyes I typed this out lol).

soft asks 🌫️