"The Dryad and the King´s Son" by Diana M Chien

"The boy's head shone in the dim leaf-shadows of the forest; the dryad liked to fancy him a star that had fetched up, drowsy and unawares, among her boughs one day."

Another watercolor ACEO inspired by the wonderful shaggykorean, and just as fun as Mlle. Méduse was. I finally had the chance to use my brown Micron for this, and while there was a brief moment of panic initially, when it didn't want to work over the pencil sketch, it turned out to be functional, just fussy. (I've had so many prematurely dried-out Microns before, grumble.) I love brown ink because it's so soft; I can actually sketch with it on the finished piece (I'm not a very precise inker), and it looks, err, atmospheric, not careless. XD

Colors and feel inspired by lots of favorite fairy tale illustrations. The boy was originally going to have black hair, then I realized that blond would be so much more fun...