Library Aileas

A blog of artstuff from a librarian undercover.
It happens to be Valentine’s Day when Alice and Reginald decide to enjoy an early morning walk in the frost. This inevitably leads to the Hatter indulging in some serious contemplation of words that begin with the letter S… Snow… Scarves… Sweethearts… Happy Valentine’s Day wonderful people!   Reginald & WCMI belong to bri-chan Deviantart version over here ——> [link]

It happens to be Valentine’s Day when Alice and Reginald decide to enjoy an early morning walk in the frost. This inevitably leads to the Hatter indulging in some serious contemplation of words that begin with the letter S…

Snow…

Scarves…

Sweethearts…

Happy Valentine’s Day wonderful people!

 

Reginald & WCMI belong to bri-chan

Deviantart version over here ——> [link]

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Jefferson - The Raggedy Man

While this is the first time we canonically saw Jefferson, we have seen him in younger, more carefree and less impoverished days. The clothes he wears in these scenes are clothes that once would have been the height of elegance and sophisticated, but now they are worn, ragged, faded, and dirty.

Even without Regina saying anything, you can tell this is a man who is used to dressing well and looking flash in his clothing. He still dresses as if he were rich. It’s all he can do. He’s poor, he’s foraging, he’s pretty much as low as he can get - or so he believes - but he’s not going to look that way. It’s all about the big impression with Jefferson: flair and style, even when he’s scraping a living on fungus.

His clothing betrays his shame in his poverty. Compare it to the clothing Rumpel wore as a working peasant. He was in rough, coarse, ragged clothing. But Jefferson? Even when living in a shack in the woods and picking mushrooms, with not even enough coin to buy his daughter a toy, he still dresses like a dashing gentleman, and that’s why Regina plays on it.

The colour-choices are interesting. The hues are - mostly - browns and warm textures with patterns that echo nature through them. And then, you have the inner lining of the coat. The other colours are subdued, plain, worn and faded. And then, the inside of his coat is brilliant, bright, vivid orange. Not exactly subtle, is it?

It’s a big old flashing sign that underneath the faded, worn and raggedy man, there is something bold, brilliant, and exciting, and the sign that as much as he tells Regina he “doesn’t do that anymore”, something of him still remained. Raggedy he may be, poor he certainly is, but once, he was so much more, and if only for his daughter, he wants to be again.

I can’t help but think (on top of all the awesome symbolism) that the orange in Jefferson’s coat was a shout out to the original Disney version of the Hatter. Look at this fashionista…

It’s quite cold outside, so have some Alice/ Hatter courting in the springtime to remember brighter days. Just posting a late night sketch that I might develop later. He’s supposed to be giving her a snowdrop, but I’m terrible at drawing them. To the Victorians, snowdrops symbolized hope and new beginnings. Reginald/ the Hatter belongs to Bri-chan. (http://briannacherrygarcia.tumblr.com/)

It’s quite cold outside, so have some Alice/ Hatter courting in the springtime to remember brighter days. Just posting a late night sketch that I might develop later. He’s supposed to be giving her a snowdrop, but I’m terrible at drawing them. To the Victorians, snowdrops symbolized hope and new beginnings.


Reginald/ the Hatter belongs to Bri-chan. (http://briannacherrygarcia.tumblr.com/)

coffeekitteh: saidididntwantone: Cutting off hair in ancient Asia (Japan, china, Korea & possibly some other Asian cultures) symbolizes being banished or rejected from their home. In the more modern age that is now, cutting long hair into a short cut means to forget the past, leaving the old and starting anew.

coffeekitteh:

saidididntwantone:

Cutting off hair in ancient Asia (Japan, china, Korea & possibly some other Asian cultures) symbolizes being banished or rejected from their home. In the more modern age that is now, cutting long hair into a short cut means to forget the past, leaving the old and starting anew.

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The Hatter by Aileas So, on this weeks episode of “Have you ever heard of this random fandom of mine?”… The Mad Hatter!My favorite Alice in Wonderland fanfic, Sunny Disposish ([link]) updated recently, and let me tell you… it’s always worth the wait. It’s also kinda difficult to explain exactly what’s going on in the story. Put simply, Alice returns to the Wonderland to solve a mystery and finds herself in the very good, if slightly mad, company of a different Hatter than she remembers. Re-reading the whole thing really made me start thinking about how I envision the the Hatter in Val’s story differently than the one of Bri-chan’s comic When Curiosity Met Insanity. So here you have my take on him. While the characters have a lot of similarities, Val’s Hatter has a few wilder characteristics that set him apart from the oh-so-charming Reginald Theophilus the Third. He’s also quite serious under that manic exterior. I’m not sure why he came out looking THIS serious… but the drawing just kinda went that way so I ran with it. I hope that if you’ve read the story, the background sort of makes sense and if it doesn’t, I’ll just say that in the fic Alice is referred to with a lot of lunar metaphors, and the Hatter gravitates towards descriptions full of light and energy. I hope that I’ll find time to do an Alice to go with this one. It was tons of fun.Now, this is gonna be harder to cite than my thesis…Sunny Disposish belongs to Valadilenne [DA link] [tumblr]Reginald or The Hatter belongs to Bri-chan [DA link] [tumblr]And the halo I used was from the second brush set by Lily-Fox [DA link] [tumblr]Feedback is always welcome. 

The Hatter by Aileas

So, on this weeks episode of “Have you ever heard of this random fandom of mine?”… The Mad Hatter!

My favorite Alice in Wonderland fanfic, Sunny Disposish ([link]) updated recently, and let me tell you… it’s always worth the wait. It’s also kinda difficult to explain exactly what’s going on in the story. Put simply, Alice returns to the Wonderland to solve a mystery and finds herself in the very good, if slightly mad, company of a different Hatter than she remembers.


Re-reading the whole thing really made me start thinking about how I envision the the Hatter in Val’s story differently than the one of Bri-chan’s comic When Curiosity Met Insanity. So here you have my take on him. While the characters have a lot of similarities, Val’s Hatter has a few wilder characteristics that set him apart from the oh-so-charming Reginald Theophilus the Third. He’s also quite serious under that manic exterior. 

I’m not sure why he came out looking THIS serious… but the drawing just kinda went that way so I ran with it. I hope that if you’ve read the story, the background sort of makes sense and if it doesn’t, I’ll just say that in the fic Alice is referred to with a lot of lunar metaphors, and the Hatter gravitates towards descriptions full of light and energy. I hope that I’ll find time to do an Alice to go with this one. It was tons of fun.

Now, this is gonna be harder to cite than my thesis…

Sunny Disposish belongs to Valadilenne [DA link] [tumblr]
Reginald or The Hatter belongs to Bri-chan [DA link] [tumblr]
And the halo I used was from the second brush set by Lily-Fox [DA link] [tumblr]

Feedback is always welcome. :)

Been to see “The Hobbit” three times now, definitely put me in the mood for doodling some lovely hobbit ladies. Here we have Mrs. Peregrin Took. That I can remember, she was the only hobbit mentioned that might actually be direct decedent of Bandobras “Bullroarer” Took. And I really really hope she was tall. The halo is from Lily-fox’s Halo Pack 2, which I am having too much fun playing around with.

Been to see “The Hobbit” three times now, definitely put me in the mood for doodling some lovely hobbit ladies.

Here we have Mrs. Peregrin Took. That I can remember, she was the only hobbit mentioned that might actually be direct decedent of Bandobras “Bullroarer” Took. And I really really hope she was tall.

The halo is from Lily-fox’s Halo Pack 2, which I am having too much fun playing around with.