Poster Design Inspirations Straight from the Fairy Tales

Inspiration   March 9, 2011  by

Get some fancy poster printing inspiration from some of the most unlikely characters of the grown-up world. You see, we at You the Designer still consider fairy tales fun. (And yes, we still fancy being a child sometimes, too.) With the upcoming release of Red Riding Hood in theaters in mind (and other fairy tale-inspired movies), we’ve decided that a round-up of fairy tale-inspired digital paintings should be in order. After all, fairy tales never grow old.  They still amaze, educate, and entertain. With the advent of computers and tablets, the retelling of the tales only become more exciting.

In terms of presentation, both painting and graphic design has never been the same. These art forms have definitely become more accessible to more people and, although artists have shifted from traditional drawing and painting methods to more technologically sophisticated digital painting techniques, the basics are still there—as long as there is a child, so shall the ageless fairy tales live.

It is also worthy to note that the following graphic artists have taken the liberty to render these characters in ways we have previously not even imagined. Enjoy this collection and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.

Little Red Riding Hood

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digital-painting-03-red-riding-hood-vs-the-wolf

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digital-painting-04-little-red-riding-hood

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digital-painting-05-little-red-riding-hood

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digital-painting-06-red-riding-hood-saves-the-day

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digital-painting-07-red-riding-hood-assassin

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digital-painting-09-red-riding-hood

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digital-painting-10-the-wolf

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Alice in Wonderland

digital-painting-11-Alice-in-Wonderland

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digital-painting-12-Alice-and-the-cheshire-cat

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digital-painting-13-queen-of-hearts

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digital-painting-14-alice-in-wonderland

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digital-painting-15-the-mad-hatter

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digital-painting-16-the-white-rabbit

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digital-painting-17-the-cheshire-cat

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digital-painting-18-tea-party

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digital-painting-19-alice-and-the-mad-hatter

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Beauty and the Beast

digital-painting-20-beauty-and-the-beast

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Little Mermaid

digital-painting-21-Little Mermaid

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digital-painting-22-antagonist

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Snow White

digital-painting-23-snow-white

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Rumpelstiltskin

digital-painting-24-rumpelstiltskin

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Sleeping Beauty

digital-painting-25-sleeping-beauty

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Pinocchio

digital-painting-25-pinocchio

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offset-printing-poster-inspiration-pinocchio

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The Frog Prince

digital-painting-26-frog Prince

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Hansel and Gretel

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The Arabian Nights

digital-painting-28-alladin

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Peter Pan

digital-painting-29-peter-pan

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digital-painting-30-captain-cook-and-wendy

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Jack and the Beanstalk

digital-painting-31-jack-and-the-beanstalk

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Rapunzel

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Leah is a graphic artist, pen and ink enthusiast, muralist, poet and blogger. As a child, she has adored the pen over Barbie. She can write backwards and knows that bit of info has nothing to do with design. She's been writing regularly for YouTheDesigner since January of 2011 (not backwards!) and has loved every second of it.

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13 Responses
  1. Christie   -   March 9, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    wow that is an awesome post… I really love the little mermaid and the prince. But you did not include a source for that. Can you please let me know? I’d love to have a print of that…

  2. Web Designers   -   March 10, 2011 at 5:04 am

    wow that is an awesome post good work

  3. Frank Zweegers   -   March 10, 2011 at 6:09 am

    Beautiful pieces.

  4. Derrick Dedmon   -   March 10, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    What beautiful artwork.

  5. Bwee   -   March 10, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    Sleeping Beauty is actually Snow White (note the seven little green men, the ‘glass coffin’ she’s floating in…and the URL.)

  6. LED   -   March 11, 2011 at 3:35 am

    So fresh really wanted to learn more about this:)

  7. Creative Alys   -   March 11, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    WOW! thats some really beautiful work really hard to pick one. Would like to know the posters favorite one?

  8. Lee Gustin   -   March 12, 2011 at 9:40 am

    Awesome inspiration :)

    I did a post focusing on great Little Red Riding Hood illustrations -
    http://blog.leegustin.com/red-riding-hood/

    • Arthur   -   March 14, 2011 at 7:03 pm

      That’s an interesting post, Lee! Thanks for the share. :)

  9. Surrey Web Design   -   March 14, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    Amazing, very inspirational stuff. It just saddens me I don’t really get to express such creativity when designing for corporate businesses!

  10. adeel Sadiq   -   March 25, 2011 at 4:06 am

    that a post a never forget…..wordless…keep it up..:)

  11. Web Design New York   -   March 26, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    wow this is just amazing i love all the paintings great collection

  12. Overtly Creative   -   April 6, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    Some amazing illustrations