Hes A Lil Cutie

He’s a lil cutie

Assassin & son.

Probably two of my favourite Redwall villains.

This is so real

Cornflower: How long have you been standing there?

Matthias: Don't try that. You know the concept of time confuses me.

These are just so sweet, and you’re so talented. The shrew’s nose is especially perfect. I love them as always xoxo

Some other miscellaneous art from the Redwall re-read discord.

#1 and #2 are from two separate nights, where I was lacking inspiration and asked for prompts. Someone asked for a “gurt happy moler” and “a shrew at a campfire”

#3 is an incomplete sketch, but oh well. Someone made a joke about how the name “Cringo Blam-Blam” would fit right in to the Redwall books or something along those lines, so of course I took that as a challenge and now he’s unofficially official. We assume he is/was a cellarhog who got a little too into pyrotechnics.

#4 and #5 were inspired by some various pics from that AI photo generator that’s currently trending; another member of the server put through several different prompts, and others commented on the kind of characters they could see developing from it. The mouse is William, a former Abbey Warrior with severe PTSD, but now he lives in Mossflower and raises butterflies. Then there’s Softtail, a very shy fox who also lives in Mossflower. He and William are buds.

So beautiful

Spring

This is everything I need in life

Aaaaand this is where most of my concentration has gone for the past little while. Over on the Redwall re-read discord, we’ve (ok well probably mostly me) kind of developed an unofficial cast of characters. I’ve had a lot of fun designing them and forming their personalities.

Featured here:

Stonecrop: Current Badgerlord of Salamandastron. Extroverted and go-with-the-flow, likes to tease and joke, though doesn’t always realize how hurtful some of his words can be. Preferred weapon is a double-bladed polearm scimitar. Always down for a good fight.

Lilium: Current Badgermum of Redwall (and, jokingly, of the Discord server, which is how this all got started). Originally from a farm. Very practical creature, rather quiet and introverted. Was going to marry Stonecrop, but she found being in such a formal environment incredibly stifling and didn’t like the expectation to wait hand and foot on her soon-to-be husband while also being expected to never lift a finger to do anything by herself. 

Lilium and Stonecrop balanced each other out well–she would rein in him a little bit and convince him to think something through before saying/doing it, while he got her to come out of her shell and be more comfortable expressing herself instead of bottling it up. But when Lilium realized how unhappy she was living at the mountain, Stonecrop was too dedicated to his role as Badgerlord, so they broke up. They do genuinely miss each other and still have moments together the rare times that they see each other, but neither of them really want to admit it.

Marina: A mouse, and surprisingly the main antagonist of the story. Marina has spent most of her life working for/in close proximity to the Badgerlords. She was always very impulsive and scrappy, and she’s got killer aim with throwing weapons (literally and figuratively). I haven’t quite figured out exactly what triggers it, but she ultimately turns against Stonecrop and tries to attack him and the mountain, but fails, losing an eye in the process. She then drifted out to sea and was taken in by a passing ship (the Wavewar) and treated for her injuries. As soon as she was healed, though, she took over and made it her mission to go after Salamandastron.

Rulf and Brinna: A pair of stoats, and a very happy couple (aka fulfilling my desire for a healthy vermin relationship in the Redwall universe). Rulf is captain of the Wavewar, the ship that takes in Marina. Marina hits him in the head with a boat hook and severely injures him. His girlfriend, Brinna, manages to get them both off the ship and onto the shore near Salamandastron, where she meets Stonecrop and is able to convince him to give them sanctuary in the mountain, where they form a tentative truce to stop Marina and get their ship (and crew) back.

Ohhhh my lands

The Duel of Chieftains is such a strong scene and this is an incredible drawing

Just a silly doodle. Thinking about what the Duel of Chieftains would’ve looked like if characters were the size of their actual species.