Me and my friend on here just keep sending your stuff back and forth to each other because it’s so good and your animal AU is so satisfying (I’m partial to your Luffy because he’s such a ferret)
I'm so glad you like the redwall au! I love hearing that people like my self indulgent stuff :D Weasel Luffy is so important to me now because of it and I'm so glad people agree it suits him :D
Hello! My friend who does not have tumblr but *loves* your one piece/redwall art is curious if you have any designs for Nico Robin! Have a lovely day!
(They were super excited to find someone doing redwall stuff it was one of their favorite series when they were younger. Your art has brought them and by extension me, a lot of happiness and whimsy. Very excited to follow <3)
I'd been going back and forth on Robin if I'm being honest! I had been thinking Owl, but fox kept calling me back... I think the general cunning and self-serving vibes of Redwall's foxes suits her (before Luffy weasels (hah!) his way into her heart)
She's very blue-looking but she is a black fox. I couldn't pick an eye color so she has two :) I also think before getting comfortable with Luffy and his gang she definitely wears less pretty clothing and more dull stuff. Also I'm infatuated with her. I hope your friend likes her too! I'm repeatedly really happy to hear people like this silly crossover!
Redwall Piece supernovas lineup! I am going to yap about them under the cut, but if you want to enjoy just these drawings that's fine! 😊
Okay okay! So, some of these we've seen before but honestly I didn't talk a lot about my assignments and I want to and you know what it's my blog and I should indulge myself! I'll go in order :)
Alright there's fox hawkins, who I've posted before! My reasoning for this one is pretty simple - foxes in redwall are tricky, yes, but they also tend to be seers and fortune tellers! I felt that suited Hawkins' vibe very well. Honestly his is a pretty simple assignment.
Next is Zoro and Luffy and I'm partial to them so here's a picture of just them. Zoro is a badger, and Luffy's a weasel.
Zoro's was the biggest no-brainer of all time. Even if you don't know Redwall I think badger suits him as an animal. In redwall they're generally immensely powerful, somewhat solitary, and most importantly some of 'em have got a very fun affliction called bloodwrath, where when they get very angry in the heat of battle their eyes turn blood red and their vision is overtaken by a red haze and they go totally berserk! Yay! I really like that for Zoro. There's the fun stress revolving around loss of control along with his intense need to protect his friends. Also, his stripe is green. Why? Maybe he rolled in grass. Maybe it's mold. Maybe he was born that way. Yes, Sanji makes fun of it.
Now, Luffy. Luffy's a weasel, and in Redwall the creatures have... archetypes, sort of. There are "Vermin" and there are "Woodlanders" and for the most part these roles are bad and good respectively, with very few grey characters, or characters who break this mold. Weasels are always, always, evil. Now I'm not an elementary schooler so I'm rejecting that, to an extent. Luffy's more textbook selfish, here, and probably a bit more of an asshole, too, but he hoards his friends just as obsessively as in canon! He's less sympathetic towards people he doesn't know, too. Also, I can just imagine him flopping down and twisting and running circles around all his friends and I think that's very cute.
Killer and Kid!!!
So, originally, I had intended to make them both rats. However it was brought to my attention Killer is based off a yokai called kamaitachi, which is a weasel with sickle claws. I liked that a lot, so I sort of channeled it here. His punishers don't spin, but still they're fun. I made him look much more like a stereotypical cartoon weasel than I have for any other mustelid I've drawn, because I really liked the vibe for him.
As for Kid, he just makes a fantastic Massive Rat. Rats, of course, are pretty much fully evil in Redwall, unless they're too stupid to be evil, which happened one time across 22 books. That's fine because Kid is pretty evil. Pirates in redwall are all vermin, so I felt making these pirates vermin wouldn't be so bad.
Drake and Law!
Honestly Drake was mostly just my gut instinct. He's a redhead. Squirrels are red. Squirrels also make pretty brave warriors it seems. They're also "good" creatures, which I think works well with Drake's whole SWORD deal. That blue looks very nice with his orange fur in my opinion. I adore how he turned out.
Law I've drawn before. He's just such a great ferret. Yes, ferrets are evil. But Law's a little evil too so that's fine. I actually gave him his hat this time, good for him!
Bonney and Bege!
Bonney is a hedgehog. Why? I liked it. I think Bonney being able to roll into a spiky ball is fantastic. Hedgehogs are "good" creatures, of course. Also I love her i love her so much. Her spikes are pinkish because well I wanted them to be. Whoever guessed Bonney and Kuma were the badger father and adoptive hedgehog daughter yeah you were right. I'm normal.
Bege's a shrew! Most shrews are "good," with a handful of exceptions. They usually run in groups of a bunch of shrews, generally on rivers. I also took some inspiration from that one shrew from zootopia because that felt somewhat similar.
Lastly, Apoo and Urouge!
Apoo I've drawn before, he's a goose! Some geese have funny poofy feathers on their head. He has that. The brown is not feathers, but rather something kind of like hair extensions, made from... I dunno. Something brown, obviously. Apoo honks at people and chases them and he's really annoying.
Urouge was.... hard. He's the only supernova without much screentime. I wanted him to be a bird but my options were limited... so I settled on a sparrow. Why? I dunno. They're pretty good warriors so he has that going for him. I think visually he turned out cute even if his species choice feels the weakest.
That's about all I have to say thank you. Any questions or comments or suggestions? Send me asks!!! I never shut up!!!!
Strapping young mice to be sure. Redwall Piece Sabo and Koala! :) I wanted Sabo to be a "good" creature so the divide between him and his brothers is more noticeable. I think he also just suits that insane determination some mice have (mostly Martin because I think Sabo, too, would be so fiercely protective that his enemies tens of generations later still have nightmares about him)
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