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.
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@the-redwaller
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.
Make more fanart of well known thing??
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Redwall fanart be upon ye
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.
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.
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
And then they did give Triss the sword and she beat Kurda with the flat instead of actually using it like a sword.
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.
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.)
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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 🤣
I remembered this meme exists and IMMEDIATELY had to draw it.
That’s it, that’s Mariel of Redwall in a nutshell.
Time for more Incorrect Redwall Quotes!
Honestly, it felt like a discussion the two of them would have. 🤣 my best regards to @incorrectredwallquotes, I hope you don’t mind me occasionally drawing these!
(There’s so many that I like it’s hard to choose what to draw)
Source: https://www.tumblr.com/incorrectredwallquotes/655534180685479936/gonff-is-that-blood-martin-no-gonff-thats-not
Since Redwall is in the public consciousness again, I thought I'd share some art! Ublaz Mad Eyes and Grath Longfletch from the book The Pearls of Lutra drawn about 9 years apart. I've actually started rereading the series recently and really want to draw more characters, likely leaning closer to how they appear in the books than my usual style.
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Alright, because I need her design For Reasons, here's my initial draft of Rose. Looking at the map Noonvale is like heckin' north (further than even Luke's caves!), so I went more viking with her clothing. I also wanted to have callbacks to the colors I use in Martin's design. I'm gonna sleep on it, and see how I feel about it in the morning!
Sometimes I think about Felldoh.
He was the first character where I actually had to put the book down to process. He died with a smile on his face, a broken javelin in each paw, and surrounded by a score of corpses. He was my favourite character in Martin the Warrior, and to go out like that, so close to killing Badrang, felt like a knife in the stomach.
But then I remember how angry he was. How he went out, against the wishes of his friends, to settle this himself. How he didn’t want to leave Marshank until everyone was free. How he attacked Badrang once he was within grabbing range. How he took out a bunch of the soldiers Badrang set out to kill him if the tyrant started to lose. How he was still smiling after he was already gone.
Felldoh never would have been happy in the world his friends strove to achieve. He was far too blinded by anger and hatred. It was all he really knew. His death, surrounded by enemies, fighting on his own, was the only way he would have wanted to go out. He showed his weapons with the intention of using them. He forced Badrang to see what he’d created. He died enacting the wrath he had contained for so long. If he had killed Badrang and his soldiers, even cleared out the whole fortress, he wouldn’t have been satisfied.
Martin’s remark at the end of the book stuck with me for that very reason. There was too much suffering, pain, and hatred, that he decided it was best to never tell of what happened at Marshank. Felldoh was driven by pure fury. He loathed to think that Badrang was still breathing, no matter where he was. Martin knew that. He had seen it firsthand, and knew that pain like this was something no goodbeast should have to hear. It wasn’t denying what happened, it was for everyone who died. Badrang doesn’t deserve to be remembered. That’s what Felldoh was working to achieve.
I think that’s what really made Martin the Warrior worth it. The depth of Brian Jacques’ characters, especially here, is what made me love the series so much. These aren’t the typical heroes you find in most other fantasy or adventure books. These are people in a world that really feels alive. Each book has its own unique charm, so many characters, conflicts, dynamics, and stories, all of which mix together beautifully. The food descriptions weren’t the only thing Jacques was good at.
He’s the reason I love to write. He’s the reason I love to read. He’s the reason I’m doing anything with my life at all. Every paragraph I write, every line I draw, every idea I have, it all comes back to these friendly little forest creatures and their red abbey walls. I usually don’t get emotional over media, but Brian Jacques completely changed that for me. Just with one character, my entire perspective on media as a whole changed, and I think that’s something I need to embrace a little more.
Martin: I think I might have some mild trauma Log-a-log: You think? Dinny: Might have?! Gonff: MILD?!?!
Back from a break, and decided to start prepping Broken!sword. I thiiiiiiiink this is a good length? (I also backed the gemstones and they look so niceeeee)
Just finished reading Redwall for the first time since I was ten or eleven years old. Thoughts are as follows:
The internet was not lying about the descriptions of food and scenery. My memory did not do them justice.
I don't know that every rat had to be evil, even if I will admit to finding R. Norvegicus a little more unsettling than my own domestic ones. And my god, what did ferrets ever do to Brian Jacques?
The best part of this story is the genuine camaraderie between the creatures of the forest. Not only do they genuinely need each other--even the chosen hero couldn't have completed a single step of his quest without making friends everywhere--but they actually enjoy each other's company. How often do you see characters laughing hysterically together, or sharing food from each other's plates, or sharing simple affectionate touches? It really makes so much recent "cozy" fantasy ring hollow.
Love that funky little autistic squirrel.
I will now answer only to "Her Royal Majesty Warbeak, Sparra Queen."
I have not been given to too much dwelling on how drab the Harry Potter books have become in hindsight--it's sort of beside the point given everything else that's wrong with Rowling. But she really did lift that adder fight almost whole cloth for Chamber of Secrets, huh?
That cat and that barn owl are homosexual.
I know this story is based on chivalric virtues and all, but did we need to see Cornflower's fate decided by the Abbott? I think it would have been funky fresh to see her propse to Matthias herself.
I will be revisiting the sequels.