Alright, so I've pretty much narrowed down my options into either doing a fairy tale that is written as a stage play (Shakespearean most likely) or just a dark version of a fairy tale. Both seem to have really interesting opportunities so it's really just a matter of which one I like better and which story to do.
As for that matter, I've been going back and forth between whether to do a story that is very familiar to people (Cinderella, Snow White, etc) or a fairy tale that is not as familiar to people (of which there are many....). If I choose to do a familiar story then it would become about playing up a very different take on it, taking something familiar and portraying it in an unexpected or interesting way. If I were to do an unfamiliar story then there is less emphasis on portraying it in an new or different way and can then be dealt with in whatever fashion befits it.
In researching other portrayals of fairy tales, I actually came across countless illustrations (a lot of them older, probably from the Victorian era or early 1900s) which were beautiful but fairly typical of a children's storybook. I also came across some different (and often bizarre) illustrations that are more contemporary. One such portrayal was done by a designer who made a book out of Snow White and did all the "illustrations" out of paper cut-outs. I'll see about finding those images again because they were quite interesting even though it's not really the direction I plan to go in.
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