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“It was long ago written that you and I would meet, rat.”

I’ll get the last of my Starboard character sheets done soon-ish. Lately, however, I’ve been focusing on a different project: the Mouseflower art book.

The art book is all about anthro, medieval characters like those from the Mouse Guard and Redwall series, so it’s right up my ally! I’ve already applied to be one of the contributing artists for the kickstarter, but applicants won’t hear back with a reply until January 13. You can learn more about it here if you’re also interested in contributing https://www.deviantart.com/spainfischer/art/The-Art-of-Mouseflower-Zine-Artists-Wanted-824231411

I had a lot of trouble deciding what to draw for Mouseflower, but I think I’ve gotten my ideas at a good place now, not that these sketches are anything amazing. A lot of these are studies from photographs and the artwork of other artists with one or two odd doodles mixed in too. I wanted to use a realistic/serious art style at first, but I wasn’t liking how it was looking and changed to a more toony style that’s more in-line with my usual art style these days. That and I don’t have enough free time to create anything super detailed.

The characters I decided to focus on are those created by my brother and a couple of friends for a custom Redwall tabletop RPG system I devised (not that we’ve had many opportunities to play it). If you’re familiar with the Redwall books, my brother is a rogue Marlfox, one friend is a sailor otter with psychic powers, and my other friend is an archer squirrel from Redwall Abbey itself.

Art © me.

Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

Me, who was raised on Redwall: