Catch These Paws

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[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.)

[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]

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.

[bowelfly]

BANNED from the abbey garden for unsanctioned nibbling

[bowelfly]

Brother Ignatz you wretched creature what did you do this time

[karmada]

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!

[contemptible-scoundrel]

norbert, the aggrieved

ever-jovial barnaby

the great archibald

shrewd percival

timid constantine

[bowelfly]

[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!

[karmada]

I didn't want to post all my little comics at once, but hey, y'all gonna get a treat today. I just love drawing their antics.

After all the battling and drama, I'd like to think maybe, just maybe, Martin gets a breather to rest his brain. What he forgets is he's real close with the living embodiment of chaos in the world.

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are fully carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[vintage-tigre]

[mohnblumesworld]

[controlresonant]

[soulspeed]

they had one too many october ales at the feast

[hhhhunty]

Need more redwall love on this site so here are some actually redwall doodles from a while back... Firstly Mice as I was trying to figure them out, accompanied by Tagg/Deyna and Nimbalo because Taggerung is one of my favorite books! Next image is because I was revisiting Triss recently, so across the board we got Welfo, Shogg, Triss, Sagax, Scarum, and Kroova :) I'm not great yet at making the critters look distinct from one another but boy do I love drawing them!

[wuddshipp]

page 10 of Legend of Luke.

[wuddshipp]

page 10 of Legend of Luke.

[wuddshipp]

"Good sirs, I'm called Trimp the Rover." "Marm, I'm called Ferdy an' that fat 'un's my brother Coggs, both of Redwall Abbey." Coggs snorted, pointing at Ferdy's ample stomach. "I ain't as fat as ole Ferdy, am I, miz Trimp?" She giggled. "You're as tubby as one another."