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A blog dedicated to Brian Jacques and his books. (icon credit: raphcrow)

[airasilver]

[airasilver]

Love this poem in Mariel Of Redwall.

[stearleartwork]

Bosie 

Ink illustration tof Laird Bosie McScutta of Bowlaynee from Brian Jacque's book, Doomwyte, and inspired by an illustration by David Elliot.

[wuddshipp]

it them boys

i forgot that Logalog is from Mossflower... not Legend of Luke. But that's fine. I really wanted to draw him.

[karmada]

I recently fell across the blog @incorrectredwallquotes, and fell in love with its humor! I laughed so much going through the posts, I decided to illustrate one of them. I hope they don’t mind!

Comic based on this post!

[the-redwaller]

It’s 2026 and I still can’t believe Rose dies

[meangirlnurse]

oh my god

[meangirlnurse]

[karmada]

Alright, doodles keep working pretty well, so have the complete sketch collection so far!

We’ve got Martin, Gonff, Mariel, Rose, and Matthias!

I’ve got some work I’m doing and then I’ll likely add more, I just need to decide who.

[fansta]

Make more fanart of well known thing??

NO

Redwall fanart be upon ye

[fickleiris96]

To add some variety to this blog, I am going to share something I did for the Ukrainian publishing house “Nebo” (nebo.booklab.publishing) last year.

Here are a few fragments of the illustrations for the third novel in the Brian Jacques' Redwall saga — "Mattimeo". Of all the books in this series, I think "Mattimeo" was the most fun to illustrate so far.

[karmada]

I love Mossflower so much, but definitely I liked Legend of Luke, because the characters just got to be normal, y'know? Like old friends, family, and really fleshed a lot of characters out. (I also really liked The Bellmaker for this reason too.)

I really like how there are actually just GOOD RELATIONSHIPS between characters (not every relationship needs drama).

I also adore how Gonff is just like Best Dad Ever. He is so excited about his son just existing, and I imagined he was there helping 100% of the time (when not pulling mischief elsewhere).

Columbine tries to act all stern but you know she's also behind the corner laughing so hard at all of their antics.

[moonybadger]

Male warriors in Redwall: I am going to stab you with this ancient sword forged by the greatest badger smiths in the land

Female warriors in Redwall: I am going to beat you to death with this actual piece of trash I found on the beach and you are going to thank me for it 

[edgar-allan-possum]

And then they did give Triss the sword and she beat Kurda with the flat instead of actually using it like a sword.

[karmada]

Finally, the whole reason I started feverently drawing Redwall fanart. My precious lad, Blaggut, from The Bellmaker.

I had read this book originally so long ago (around the time it came out), so rereading it was like remembering an old friend. What I did NOT remember was how utterly wonderful Blaggut was.

[karmada]

This is probably one of my favorite illustrations I have done in a good while. Now that I have a better feel on how I want to draw my woodland characters, I absolutely 100% had to draw them camping on their travels in Mossflower.

Also, I really wanted to play with the firelight and try a more shaded "storybook" kind of feel.

Image done in Clip Studio Paint.

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I highly recommend y'all read Mossflower. While I like Redwall and it's sequels, lemme tell you, Mossflower is so full of SASS. They're constantly making remarks at each other (but not in like a derogatory way. In the way you make fun of your best friends.)

[ethanmaldridge]

I AM THAT IS

[karmada]

Decided to dabble in other characters, so I definitely wanted to draw Mariel and Dandin (I did earlier but I wanted to redo their outfits). I just love how much of a gremlin Mariel can be 🤣

[karmada]

I remembered this meme exists and IMMEDIATELY had to draw it.

That’s it, that’s Mariel of Redwall in a nutshell.