Little Red Riding Hood reimagined.

Little Red Riding Hood was created as part of a school project exploring the relationship between text and image.

As Little Red Riding Hood is one of the darker fairy tales I know, I chose to approach the story from a similarly unsettling perspective while still keeping it suitable for a younger audience.

Throughout the story, Red Riding Hood is followed by a large shadow moving through the forest. In the illustrations, she appears very small and is often barely visible, encouraging viewers to actively engage with the images and search for her within each composition. Rather than simply retelling a familiar story, the aim was to create a more immersive and intriguing visual experience.

The shadow is never clearly defined or characterised. I wanted it to feel familiar yet unknown, allowing viewers to project their own interpretations onto it. In this way, the shadow can be understood as a personal presence that follows Red Riding Hood through the forest, much like the fears, uncertainties, or unseen burdens that people carry with them in their own lives.

In the final illustration, Red Riding Hood disappears from the scene, but her fate is never revealed. By leaving the ending open, I wanted viewers to draw their own conclusions about what happened to her and the meaning of the shadow that follows her throughout the story.