My project in Artistic Illustration Techniques with Graphite Pencils course

My project in Artistic Illustration Techniques with Graphite Pencils course

The lady of the lake

Once an upon the time. A young maiden asks to the monster of the lake.
''Please monster, I conjure you to do my will, Make the king take me as a wife.''
The Lake monster respond " what you would give me in exchange?"
'' I have no prospect replay the girl, I am poor.''
The creature thinks "well, he said," give me your first child. He will be well and safe."
And the King will take me as wife Asked the maiden?
Yes, the monster said the King will be yours forever.

The maiden agreed, as her wishes come true, she married the King.
A year later, from the union, a little girl was born. The maiden now who is queen kept her promises and gave the newborn in the act of lying that the child died.

Many years have passed, the child has grown up, she has become a beautiful young woman who lives in the swamp barefoot and swims all day with no voice. The monster falls in love with her innocence and beauty.

One day, a young soldier from another realm who went to see the King crossed the swamps. But humans are sometimes cruel and stupid. When he saw the beautiful girl with a monster, he first thought, was to save her from the beast and kill it in his arrogant ignorance. He goes to see the King with the young girl he has kidnapped.

Arrived at the castle, the King gazes le maiden, she was the portrait of her mother the queen: it was a great deal since his wife past away.
The old man could not be happier to see his only child, alife before death come and get him. But how could be possible the queen said that the child has died. He was an old tied king, and now the princess can back save.

''I saved her from the monster of the swamps said the soldier.''
The King was in chock that demon must have taken her, breaking his beloved wife heart drag her to her death.

'' you have to bring my only child spoken the King. It is the princess,
I thank you for bringing her back from the devil, you will be united by the marriage union my son.

Yet, none have to ask the princess opinion, she was happy in the forest and in the swamps. She saw her only family slaughter and betake against her will, married! No, she did not want to be married. The only thing she could hear was the monster, the beat, the demon the same creature who taught her the language of the birds.
The same beast who taught her plant medicine, warns her about the wickedness of men.

Well the night before the wedding, the princess escape from her golden cage. She went back to where she belonged. After all, she a child of the forest and will never see a human.