stevedover1965

How about a place to show off your imaginations, a place of magic energies and curious creatures out of legend. Faeries and Pixies, Kobolds and Boggles, Trolls, Giants, Witches and Goblins Fantastic worlds and impossible places. Pictures and stories, web links to deeply mysterious and imaginative places. Use this topic and leave behind the material world and enter the Magical world of the Faerie.

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=144246
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=144497
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=144588
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=151251
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=140430
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=140412
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=139796
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=116943
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=113475
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=107587
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=105312

stevedover1965

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

from "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"

stevedover1965

http://www.foundus.com/faerie/

This link will transport you to the world of faeries

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=151638

clorophilla

Oooo - I love this one!

here there are some of mine (I don't put in my Harry Potter series as it has its own trend):
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=149502 argetlam
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=148218 mysElf
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=131510 palantir
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=131048 curandera
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=74664 goblin

stevedover1965

Thanks Clo for getting the ball rolling, I love fantasy, magic and myth, anything that stretches the imagination a little bit is OK with me, so I thought let's make a place for the topic within the community. It's been a little slow, but what the heck I like it and I am glad to add your input and anyone else's let's broaden our minds and suspend disbelief and enter that fantastical world of legend that is Faerie.

stevedover1965

http://s3.amazonaws.com/hoaxipedia/cottin1.jpg

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine. Conan Doyle, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena. Public reaction was mixed; some accepted the images as genuine, but others believed they had been faked.
Interest in the Cottingley Fairies gradually declined after 1921. Both girls grew up, married and lived abroad for a time. Yet the photographs continued to hold the public imagination; in 1966 a reporter from the Daily Express newspaper traced Elsie, who had by then returned to the UK. Elsie left open the possibility that she believed she had photographed her thoughts, and the media once again became interested in the story. In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances continued to claim that the fifth and final photograph was genuine.
The photographs and two of the cameras used are on display in the National Media Museum in Bradford.

(C) Wikipedia

cathyallheart

first try, i think latter i'll redo it
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=151945

cathyallheart

wait i like that one better but this one is older http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=140910
and working on one more

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=151949

cathyallheart you inspired me to draw this picture

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=152015

My favourite faerie picture...so far!

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=95175
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=112665
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=43983
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=49387
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=9774
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=55388
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=62757
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=129369
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=91704
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=20902
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=36714
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=88995
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=25424
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=62946
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=140191
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=148031
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=42775
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=28790

This is a selection of pictures by various artists of fairies / faeries over the years, there were simply too many to include all of them, so I chose those I thought were the most striking. I hope you recognise your own work amongst this compilation.

Steve x

stevedover1965

http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/limerick/102/faerie.htm

This is a very informative and colourful site all about fey or faeries check it out!

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=152327

Magical Swords / The Fire-blade

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=152535

Enchanted Faerie: Trying to add more elaborate details to the picture, however the pieces are so small that there are limits to what I can do!

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=152549

Evil Goblin

stevedover1965

To see my Avalon series in it's entirety go the gallery and just type in "Legends Of Avalon" and you will see all of the related pictures for this theme I have been working on so far. Hope you like them.

clorophilla

I added this topic at the "galleries on the forum" topic, it fully deserves!

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=152672

Cross breeding experiments by evil wizards produced the Orc, offspring of Goblins and Human DNA, although not necessarily evil many Orcs are used in armies as infantry due to their enormous strength.