Wanted To Try Something A Little Different In Terms Of Style, And I'm Really Happy With How These Two

Wanted to try something a little different in terms of style, and I'm really happy with how these two came out.

This is Finneley Hannigan and Ophelia Melbury. Finneley is the quiet and very shy gardener at a huge country estate and Ophelia is a polite and very imaginative daughter of one of several aristocratic families who frequently stay at the estate most the year.

Finneley comes from a magical family and is the youngest of 7 children and lives in a house just inside the woods on the estate grounds. His mother, Mabel, and Finneley have the same kind of magic, which is the growing and nurturing of plants and animals. Mabel's magic is best used through singing and dancing, but as she was getting older when Finneley's magic finally revealed itself (he was quite a few years older than his siblings when they discovered their magic), she began to forget how to use her magic. Except for her singing, which she taught Finneley.

After I came up with Finneley's story I realized that I basically made a male version of a Disney princess and I absolutely love it.

I hope to actually make some comics with these characters and this story this time ...

My rabbit as a crime lord, just because. Exploring character tropes.

I couldn’t resist drawing my favorite sketch of Ernest H. Shepard’s illustrations from A. A. Milne’s second Winnie-the-Pooh book, The House at Pooh Corner. When I was looking at Shepard’s drawings online I found that he also did the illustrations for The Wind the Willows, which was (and still is) one of my favorite books since early middle school. I wish that children’s books today had this level of quality in their illustrations. You would think with the advent of technology that we could produce high quality illustrations like this in an even shorter amount of time, but I keep seeing these really cheap looking books that saddens me to no end.

Some random doodles for a mini sketchdump. Haven't been very active lately (so sorry!!), but I think I feel my drawing juices coming back. Hope to be back again real soon!

Found this while looking through a sketchbook. I designed him for some story I thought up, but I have absolutely no idea what it was anymore. I kind of wish I did because he’s so cute, but maybe I can make him a new story. *shrugs* I don’t know, I just can’t let my babies go I guess …

Repost of all of the sketches I couldn't help but doing during classes