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Fairy Tale Opera Tickets
A series of hand-illustrated fictional opera tickets, each designed for a fairy tale where music plays a central role in the story.
A series of hand-illustrated fictional opera tickets, each designed for a fairy tale where music plays a central role in the story.
A self-initiated illustration project developed in 2023. Each ticket is conceived as a fictional playbill artifact (designed as if a real opera house had staged these stories) with the selection guided by a single thread: every fairy tale chosen has music at the heart of its narrative. The Pied Piper leads rats with his flute, the Nightingale's song saves an emperor's life, the Twelve Dancing Princesses are lured nightly by enchanted music.
Overview
Overview
Overview
Each ticket is composed as a miniature stage scene, complete with curtains, arches, serial numbers, and "Admit One" stubs. It blends the conventions of Victorian playbills with storybook illustration. The hand-lettered typography and decorative borders were drawn to feel printed but imperfect, as if the tickets had been produced by a small, precious opera house.
Palette and mood shift per story: warm and playful for the Pied Piper, moonlit and quiet for the Nightingale, soft and romantic for the Dancing Princesses.
Each ticket was developed through multiple pencil roughs — working out composition, typography, and scene — before being executed in watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil on paper.
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Available for international projects in surface design,
illustration, and selected visual design.