"Once upon a time, there was a forest, where a pack of crows was nesting. But in the middle of the forest were large bare rocks, with a large, spacious, dark cave where owls lived in. Their number was as big as a number of crows in the forest. At day crows were masters of the forest, croaking, sitting on trees and rocks, feeling completely free. But when night was coming and the crows were falling asleep in their nests, then the owls were flying out of their cave, flying straight to the crow nests, killing one crow at a time and eat them. For a long time they were facing their fate patiently, but one time..." - Ivan Franko
For this project I chose watercolor as a material that gives a stunning effect and at the same time the image remains imperfect and vivid. However, it leaves too little space to fix possible mistakes.
For this story I created seven illustrations in total. Seven is a magic number, often used in the fairy-tales. This amount of pictures is also enough to create a visual story understandable without knowhing the text.
The last image is similar by its composition to the first one, and mirrors it in the logic of the story.
The work process is seen on this video:
