[Art] Rabbit Girl - including story

[moonvoice]

On the edge of a poor village, bordering the forest, lived an old man and his spoilt daughter. The daughter only ever ate one thing; rabbits. She begged her father for rabbits all the time, and refused to eat anything else.






Rabbit Girl
38 x 51cm / 15 x 20 in
Original for sale
Crescent illustrator's board, technical pens, pencil and aquarelle, acrylic and pigment.





The rabbits - understandably - got sick of this. They met together one night in the forest, and complained that this spoilt girl should only choose to eat them out of all the animals. The Rabbit King decided it was better they all find a new home. The rabbits, all together under the night sky, ran from their homes.

The next day, the father had poor luck hunting for rabbits. And the day after that. And the day after that. In despair, he gave to his daughter the finest meats, but she threw them all away. The daughter herself decided to take things into her own hands. She decided to visit a witch, to see if she could do anything.

The first witch gave her an amulet, with strict instructions on its use. The daughter followed all the instructions, but it didn't work. The second witch gave her an amulet, with strict instructions on its use, and still it didn't work. Finally, in a village far from her own, she found a witch who was neither good or evil, who listened to her lament with narrowed eyes.

'Tell me exactly what you want.' The witch said. And the girl closed her eyes and then in a rush said;

'I want as many rabbits as can fit inside me, and then some.'

The witch smiled a lopsided smile, gave her an amulet with strict instructions on its use, and sent her away.

The daughter followed the instructions, and felt the earth rumble beneath her feet in the field where she had used the amulet. And then rabbits poured from the earth. They ate their way through her feet, burrowed and kicked up her legs and into her belly. They poured from her eyes, and tails sprouted from her head, long rabbit ears from her fingers.

And when they were done, they spilled away, cavorting in the night. Behind them, they left the shaken and terrified daughter in the form of a young rabbit.

Distraught, she hopped all the way home, hiding from foxes and hunters and their dogs. Until finally she scratched upon her father's door. When her father opened the door and saw the rabbit waiting there, he couldn't believe his luck, and wrung its neck; a special treat for when his daughter returned.

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You might think the moral of the story is; be careful what you wish for, or it doesn't pay to be greedy... but really, the moral of the story is don't mess with the fucking rabbits, because they'll mess you back.

Comments

[liondaughter.livejournal.com]

I haven't commented on any of the works in progress posts for this piece. Because honestly, it's really fucking amazing. But I can't look at it for more than two seconds.

*hugs*

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

But I can't look at it for more than two seconds.

I'm not glad that it's been triggery or too confronting for some, but at the same time, I'm glad I've been able to evoke the response I wanted to evoke when I set out making this picture. Glen's response pretty much did it for me when I showed him the sketch and he went 'oh... oh, are they coming out of her *eyes*? I don't know... I mean it's a good sketch.'

High praise indeed. Heh.

[sotepetsenu.livejournal.com]

I agree, this is fucking amazing.

And rabbits will mess you up!!! When I had Fred, I went away for a week for a music trip, and when I came back he pretended to love me so that he could get up on my bed and PISS all over my fucking pillow.

Also, the picture before was a kind of "wow" thing, but with the story attached it is HOMFGZWOW.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Rabbits will definitely mess you up! They're definitely not 'shy and quiet.' Not one bit.

[minxee.livejournal.com]

I love this story and the artwork :-D

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[lightgoddess-69.livejournal.com]

This piece is beautiful, as always, but the rabbits really creep me out. o.O

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Aw they should! Rabbits are way creepy.
And and and yay Booth and his sexy socks!

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

Good story. Where did that one come from? Curious.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I made the story up. :)

[rainsingingwolf.livejournal.com]

Love the colors and the textures all over this piece. And the story is creepy. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like! I was a bit worried how people would receive the colours, so I'm glad that went down well too.

[toeknuckles.livejournal.com]

Wow, what a horrible and seriously wonderful story to go with it! I love that you captured that traditional nastiness from old fairy tales in it - brilliant!

As for the picture - I can't say enough good things about it. And I only just realised that her hair is actually rabbit tales. Genius, and beautifully done. 8-)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Glen thought it was an actual Grimm's fairytale when I told him, so that gave me extra happiness (I actually bounced around, really).

[white9-fox.livejournal.com]

This will become the next "don't do drugs" ad image XD

Totally OT from the story, but it's like some serious mind-tripping right here, what with the colors and all.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Haha, 'don't do drugs, bunnies will eat you. Also? Don't eat meat, bunnies bite back.'

Uh... bunneh?

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

What a droll tale.

I may need more time to absorb it.

Not quite as literally, though.

Re: Uh... bunneh?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Nommy rabbits.

[firehauke.livejournal.com]

heh, nice story. It more than says don't mess with the rabbits, it says all those 'and more'.

awesome coloring.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's got a lot of morals. Mostly it's 'discipline your kids, or you'll end up killing them one day.' ;)

[silere.livejournal.com]

Woo! Totally not the color scheme i imagined... but i'm loving it. And, the story makes me chuckle. <3 And shudder at the same time.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's definitely a different colour scheme than usual, it's more like what I used to do when I was younger. I truly don't like to be 'conventional' with colour selection. And the way magenta and blue (and red and blue) can jar off each other has always been something that I've loved.

[bodylove.livejournal.com]

the colors are striking! I love it!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[xmetanoiax.livejournal.com]

Hah. Go rabbits. <3

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I'm on Team Rabbit.

[vanirpriestess.livejournal.com]

AH HA HA HA HA THIS IS MADE OF SO MUCH WIN. <3

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*bounces happily*

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

I thought the moral here was "Don't be fussy about what's on your plate"?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

And one I've just come up with 'discipline your kids or you might end up killing them one day.'

[ariestess]

Wow! This is fantastic! I think my favorite rabbit is the little one by her throat, the one all by itself. It seems very mischievous to me...

And I really like that story. What a fascinating tale...and I like the moral of "don't mess with teh fucking rabbits!" Very true!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

My favourite is the little rabbit coming up out of her throat too. Glen didn't notice it until I pointed it out. I love all the little silohouetted bunnies in her shoulders as well. I might use that technique again.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Oooh, creepy old-style fairy tale feel.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Woot! :D :D :D

[darakat-ewr.livejournal.com]

This is why I don't eat rabbit...

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

This is why I don't eat rabbit to the exclusion of anything else. ;)

[zuki-san.livejournal.com]

And now that I know the story, I know why the picture is so squicky and spooky.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is (and good thing too) it seems to be resonating with a lot of people even without the story. I love the viewers / readers of artwork.

[anrui-ichido.livejournal.com]

Haunting tail, to be sure. Har har. I'm happy to have rabbit as one of my totems; I wouldn't mess with them either.

(I shuddered I bit because I ate rabbit for the first time in four years this week. Though it wasn't hunted, it died of a severely broken leg. I would have preferred to give it some kind of burial, but my boyfriend is pretty practical and didn't want the meat to go to waste. Mrr.)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Nope, I wouldn't mess with rabbit either.

[psychrobia149.livejournal.com]

I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS PIECE!!!! I adore the darkness of it, the composition, the colors, and I love the way you've invaded the body of the main subject with another body (the rabbits)!

When I first saw the ink drawing of this piece, I was almost knocked out of my chair. It hit me like a ton of bricks, and I thought "she's headed into some very special territory here....and I want to see where she goes with this", and I tell you...that I am just blown away.

But I am also torn....because I would really like to discuss prices with you, but then I think that if you kept this piece in your portfolio for a little while, that you could gain some serious traction with the galleries.

I think that we should start emailing about this piece (if it's still available). :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

It's definitely still available. The vast majority of my audience is from Livejournal, and that vast majority prefer totems and such over pieces like this. Email me!

It's kind of psychedelic in person. I look at it when I want to make my eyes kind of go blurry.

[storm-seeker.livejournal.com]

Nice story. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

YAY! :D

[donnalotus.livejournal.com]

ooooh great story, makes much more sense now :D LOVE the finished colours! They look awesome :D Good job ^.^b

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D

[bewylderbeast.livejournal.com]

If you eat nothing but rabbit, it will kill you. It drains vitamins and minerals from the body. Many hunters/trappers have died of malnutition because they thought that rabbit was good for them.

/random fact

After reading the story, I have less fear of this image and not as much dislike of rabbits.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm sure if you eat nothing but one type of food for the rest of your life, you'll eventually die from under-nourishment or some kind of toxicity (as is the case with too many leafy green vegetables at the expense of other types). But yeah, definitely not a good idea to only eat rabbits.

[cariadwen.livejournal.com]

I love the old fashioned nastiness in the story. When my kids were small I put some of the 'grim' back into the fairy storys because that way you put back the moral into them. With Red Riding Hood, that was sooo to do with little girls being careful of the motives of strangers when out walking in the woods. My take on that was to explain the wolves sometimes disguise themselves to look like ordinary people and to get the story to take place in the park on the way to their real granny.

O About a diet of rabbits: Did you know that if you eat ONLY rabbits you die? By that I mean not just rabbit instead of other meat but rabbit and nothing else, like veg ect. They have no fat (or carbs, I think) good for slimming tho and very tasty.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

By that I mean not just rabbit instead of other meat but rabbit and nothing else, like veg ect.

*nods* I wonder if kangaroo meat would be the same actually. There's virtually no fat on it at all, and it's considered a 'weight loss' type of meat.