Folktale Week: The Hare
Illustration series • November 2025
Folktale Week is an annual online illustration challenge built around daily single-word prompts. Participants respond to each prompt with a new piece across the week, either illustrating an existing folktale or creating their own original story. I created my own story of a hare weathering a wave of difficult emotion.
I - NIGHT
Noticing the darkness rolling in. Bracing for the wave of what's coming. Fear and courage.
II - ECHO
Pulled into the dark echo chamber of your its own thoughts, fears and negative talk echo back at the hare getting louder and louder. The hare stands alone on an isolated island looking down at its own distorted reflection. A shadow of its own making looms above.
III - RAIN
Sadness overwhelms, distorting the hare's view of itself.
IV - CHARM
Holding on to something solid. A ritual, a reminder, a tether. The stone emits a light, casting a protective spell and keeping the sharp thorns at bay.
V - STORM
Endurance.
VI - DAWN
The storm clouds begin to pass and dawn's warm light breaks through. A glimmer of hope, relief. Joy begins to bloom again, echoing the colour of the charm's light used to make it through the night.
