Ashputtel, my finished Illustration for Pencil Play's February Theme, Fairy Tales. Ashputtel, or Cinderella, is so called because she sleeps in a fire place on a bed of ash. I wrote these words when drawing out the drafts for this piece:
Ashputtel exuded a natural beauty that her step sisters simply could not comprehend. So they teased her for it, calling her 'plain' and 'boring' as they wriggled uncomfortably in their silky dresses and stroked their expensive jewels. Ashputtel had barely known any different, and so of course, over time, she believed them.
At night, she would shrink into the shadows and pretend she didn't exist. That's what they wanted, and sometimes, she did too.
But when she closed her eyes, she dreamt of a different place, a different life,
and she would smile in her sleep, at all that could be...
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