Children’s Book

This was a very fun project I did earlier in the year for an anatomy class. I chose to illustrate the mostly obscure and unknown short story The Little Girl Sold with the Pears. To give you a short summary of the story:

A man had to pay the king four baskets of pears as rent, but one year, his trees yielded only three and a half, so he put his youngest daughter in the fourth basket to fill it up. The royal servants found her by the pears she ate, and she went to work as a servant. As she grew up, she and the prince fell in love. The maidservants grew envious.

The twist to our artist interpretation was to bring the story into a modern setting. So, instead of a King, we have a mafia character. Instead of barking dogs, we have thugs, ect.