Jerracotta

Just a 27 year old dude posting on the 🅸🅽🆃🅴🆁🅽🅴🆃. (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈 Things I enjoy: Kobolds, NaturalHabitatShorts, Root, D&D, Batman, Redwall, htf

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Made a new art for my profile~

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I am once again posting Slagar art. He's invaded my head somewhat while I was sick the past week. Besides wanting an excuse to draw Slagar some more, I also just wanted to experiment/practice a little with how I draw heads.

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Thoughts on Slagar

I was talking with my lovely partner about Slagar the Cruel. He hasn't read the books, but he's absorbed enough from my ramblings and things to form his own thoughts (:)). Slagar always seems to be a fan favorite of those who only know just some about Redwall, which I think is great. Slagar is great (awful).

The conversation started with me saying "Do you remember Chickenhound/Slagar?"

He says "Of course. He's the one with the cool checkered mask right?"

"Yes he's the one with the mask. So, same dude [Chickenhound and Slagar (spoilers, haha)], right? I HATE Chickenhound, but I think Slagar is so great I love him."

So that's point one, I think it's kind of funny about me. Slagar is so fun and evil and camp, but I will just never ever forgive Chickenhound for being stupid and the worst.

Then, boyfriend had some really interesting thoughts that I'd like to share! Thoughts from a new audience, if you will.

"The checkered mask and cape is so cool because it completely conceals the very defining features of a fox, like the shape of the head and the bright orange color, but it does it by replacing it with such a striking pattern that it also erases the shape of him. But it’s so unique and so bold, even more so than a fox. He stands out so much yet is so mysterious and anonymous. Very fey." I said, "AND it conceals his broken face. So it replaces something he hates with something recognizably scary but also costumey. I don't know how to explain, but it’s powerful and monstrous because it’s so fun but at the same time he’s so cruel." Boyfriend says: "It does more than that, it makes him a new kind of beautiful. (I’m just projecting and romanticizing though it’s your book you know more.)"

I wanted to share because I thought this was so interesting! Thank you, goodbeasts all!

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I like this perspective a lot. I very quickly found Slagar choice to conceal his face and body in that checkered pattern really compelling but didn't necessarily know at first how to describe why.

Besides the theatricality of it, I love the idea that Slagar is 'otherizing' himself by hiding his fox face and turning himself into a 'creature' of its own kind. He isn't just a fox wearing a disguise, he's that 'monster with the checkered face'. Psychologically, I would imagine it would help him embrace his wickedness by identifying with the persona of the cloaked checkered villain 'Slagar' and not the fox 'Chickenhound' underneath.

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Art of Slagar, a villain I find highly compelling. When starting to watch season 2 of Redwall for the first time, there was a temptation to sympathize with Slagar due to his tragic past but he truly does make himself an irredeemable bastard and I do honestly enjoy him as a villain for that. That being said, I decided to make this art based on the cycle of violence and hostility that exists in the Redwall universe and how Slagar's life seemed defined by it.

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I'm midday through watching Redwall season 2 and my god it's intense. I like Slagar as a villain because of how much he is unambiguously a bastard, as a contrast to the trend of more sympathetic villains today. I still enjoy sympathetic villains but it's a different emotion experience to truly hate a villains actions. At the same time, he's a fun villain with "pizzazz". Great stuff~

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Two portraits I did for a project that I didn't end up finishing but liked the art of anyway~

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I have awoken to the idea that I can just write stuff on my blog and don't need to always post art...

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A mock-up of my fursona as a con artist fox instead of his usual badger form~.

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30 minute sketch of a squirrel~ Just wanted to draw something quick to relax.

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Happy Easter~!

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In a few days, I'll be playing my new characters in D&D. This is the custom character sheet I've made for it, featuring my character Antpax!

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I started this on impulse while waiting for the doctor, ended up going further with it than I expected :))

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I present my new detective duo: The Opossum is Lowry O'Gealach (he/him) and the raccoon is Billie Ringtail (she/they). It was fairly fun to play around with such funky colours~.

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I've updated the look of my fursona Osbert! I really like the combination of purple, pink and yellow together~.

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I've finally managed to finish this~! Introducing Herb and Henry, a pair of freelance puzzle solvers!

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Petey the cat! When I was young I read the Captain Underpants books but I only discovered the existence of Dogman recently when I stumbled upon fan art of Petey. Since then, the art that has come out recently (especially since the movie came out) is really cool.

Anyway, here's my contribution to that.