A Child's Story Deck

A project my mother and I are working on. A deck of cards with all the generic character types from all the fairy tales we could think of-- from king and queen and prince and princess, through servants and messengers and mysterious strangers, right on to animals and magical creatures, faeries and mermaids. Kids can draw cards and act out a story as that character, or take turns drawing and adding to a group story, or use them to write a story, or... well, lots of other things. I've also been submitting some of these to art shows at cons, and have even sold a couple!

All the images are meant to be children and/or childlike, including the animals and magic creatures. The human roles are all done as kids playing dress-up, but the magic creatures are meant to be real.

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Finished images:

Heroine	King	King Neptune	Knight	Mermaid Queen
Moon	Prince	Princess	Queen	Sorceress
Troll	Wind

Original sketches:

Royal Advisor (Boy)	Royal Advisor (Girl)	Bad Guys (who are only bad because they don't think they are good enough to be good)	Baker	Bard
Bear	Bird	Boy	Cat	Cook
Cow	Dog	Dragon	Duck	Elf King
Elves	Faerie Queen	Faeries		Father
Fish	Frog	Gardener	Girl	Goat
Goatkeeper	Grandfather	Grandmother	Healer (Boy)	Healer (Girl)
Hen	Hero	Heroine	Horse	Hunter
Huntress	Jester	Judge	King	King Neptune
Knight	Leader of the Bad Guys (Boy)	Leader of the Bad Guys (Girl)	Mermaid Queen	Messenger (Boy)
Messenger (Girl)	Minstrel	Mirror	Moon	Mother
Mouse	Priest	Priestess	Prince	Princess
Queen	Rabbit	Rain	Servant (Boy)	Servant (Girl)
Sheep	Shepherd	Sheriff	Sick Child (Boy)	Sick Child (Girl)
Snow	Sorceress	Stranger	Subjects	Sun
Swan	Troll	Turtle	Unicorn	Warrior Maid
Wind	Winged Horse	Wise Man	Wise Woman	Witch
Wizard	Wolf	Woodcutter