Hansel and Gretel

I have been very busy creating new prints inspired by my next fairytale: Hansel and Gretel.  My main inspiration from the story is the sweetie house.  When I was younger, I loved looking at the illustrations of the house and seeing the brightly coloured sweets stuck to the outside, as a child I found it very appealing!! This is why I am focusing mainly on sweets, candy canes and gingerbread men.  They are very fun and exciting things for children and this is the feeling I want to create through my designs. An excitement for children when they see the finished prints.

Starting to create prints of the sweetie house, I drew the outline and scanned it into Photoshop and worked into it adding extra detail and playing around with the different colours.

A different style house, layered onto two different backgrounds.  I think the houses look better as a border print and on a polka dot background.

'Floral Sweets'

These are two of my favourite prints for the collection.  They are different from the other prints because they are not so child like.  I was inspired by a 'Liberty' print.  I love the ditzy print design and I think it works really well on children's wear because it is on a much smaller scale in comparison to women's wear.

Hand drawn gingerbread men developed into digital gingerbread men...

I think both gingerbread men prints are successful.  They look cute and appealing to a child.

Experimenting with a sweet print.  I like the hand painted sweets as they have more depth to them rather than the graphic ones.

So far I am pleased with the print designs I have created for this fairytale, I still need to work into the sweetie house as this is one of the main aspects of the story.