In the rise of digitally-made artworks, Emily Hare chooses to trace back her roots and begin picking up the drawing techniques left in the shadows: paintbrush and watercolor. So no, what you’re about to see are not some pages off of a children’s book; maybe they will be in the long run, but no — these are Emily’s unusual, delicately-drawn brainchildren brushed softly in watercolor, unique reimagining characters and mythical beasts to her own unique art style. If you’re a sucker for both cray and creamy-looking masterpieces, then Emily’s watercolor paintings will plainly put your artsy soul in satisfaction. Let’s take a look.

1. Tree G’Nom: The Fuzzy Pal in the Woods

“I have never been one to slap down dark lines in pencil boldly, I like to start very softly. So softly that if I am recording this process, it is near impossible for the camera to see! I treat pencil similarly to how I treat watercolor, in a way that means I am not married to the line I have just made and can generally rub it out quickly! This, of course, results in a very soft looking finish.”

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2. Wiffle: The Cuddly Crawly

“Looking at how strange and odd-looking nature can be helpful, although this doesn’t stop me tending to lean towards certain shapes that I like or arrangement of facial features I seem to do a lot!”

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3. Craggle: The Bulbasaur in Watercolor

“This creature I made called The Craggle, which is the caterpillar form of a type of fairy from my book Strangehollow that I made last year. It eats other caterpillars. Those caterpillars that it eats like to eat a certain type of fungi. So I thought for him to lay in wait and be invisible, he needs to have mushroom-type growths on his back.”

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4. Olwen: The Lady on the Run

“Folklore and fairytales are a huge source of drawing ideas for me. I can’t really give you a favorite as those often change! While this isn’t a favorite of the colorful drawings, It’s an excellent example of how I get inspired (sometimes) with the use of a sentence or a paragraph from a story. This one is the Welsh Fairytale ‘The Wooing Of Olwen’.”

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5. Werewolf: The Summon of the Night

“I grew up loving fairytale art styles and all those classic fantasy movies like Labyrinth, Legend, Sinbad The Sailor, Jason, and the Argonauts, etc. Those monster movies were the best! Creatures is definitely a theme in my work, but I also lean towards the old heroic tales too, like Beowulf.”

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6. Witch: The Serene Spellbinder

“Certainly when I’m ‘seeing’ the things in my mind, whether it be a painting or a creature or character I have an idea for, it never comes out quite how I want it to (very very rarely) on the paper. It’s complicated to grasp that wisp of a thing that is in your mind and make it as real as it feels on paper as it does in mind.”

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7. Beowulf: The Classic Hero

“Recently I have two pieces of work I’m really proud of, and one is the Beowulf. The story behind the Beowulf piece is from the famous poem of Beowulf. If you aren’t familiar with it, then I highly recommend if you like stories of absurdly strong and brave heroes!”

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8. Howl: The Call of Fear

“[I have this] painting HOWL that I painted at the end of last year during class with Scott Fischer in Smarter Art School. It is much higher contrast to my usual softer work, and I really enjoyed creating it, and the process took a really long time. The story behind Howl was a prompt from Month Of Fear last year, and that prompt was ‘howl,’ and that’s it.”

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