#silverweed

AFTER ~40 HOURS ITS FINALLY DONE AAAAAAAAA

THIS PIECE HAS BEEN IN WIP LIMBO DEVELOPMENT HELL SINCE THE FIRST OF JUNE! I THOUGHT ID NEVER ESCAPE IT

Time breakdown: Initial sketch to final sketch: ~13,5 hours (this was mostly redrawing, adding and rearranging rabbits a bunch of times) Finalised Sketch to flat colors and textured rabbits: 21+hours Importing it to clipstudio paint on my laptop and adding the rendering and final touches: ??? im guessing like 5 hours. Not sure tho since clipstudio doesnt record time spent I hope the watership down community will enjoy the fruits of my hard labor :) This is the first time ive drawn so many fullbody bunnies so i hope i did alright with the anatomy, i tried using references but it was still really hard.

I tried my best to make the designs somewhat believable/naturally colored but still making them varied and distinct from eachother

Have I been doing anything productive?

No.

Have I been binge-watching the 1999 Watership Down tv series and doodling?

Absolutely.

Thorn - My main Watership down FC. She is a mystic with empathic abilities, and is able to feel what other rabbits around her are going through emotionally and physically, which is a very overwhelming and exhausting ability that Fiver and Silverweed are helping her learn to control and meditate so she's not overstimulated all the time.

Thorns parents - Thier names are Ivy and Bracken. Her mother was a Hlessi who joined her fathers small family warren after falling in love with him. They are basically a large rabbit wife and her tiny husbun <3 Thorns mom is a big fluffy lady, while her father is small and sleek. Thorn gets her size and build from her father, but her coloring from her mother. They both died as a result of the nearby stream being poisoned and tainting the plant life around the warren. Thorn is the only surviving member thanks to her Mystic sensitivity, though she was a child and unable to save her family because no one believed her about the grass being bad.

 I like to think about her sometimes - I was listening to Alternative by Rory and I think it's a good song for Thorn, dreaming about what her life would have been like if she hadn't been orphaned, or wasn't born with her abilities. 

She has stared the darkness in the eye - Who is she from Centaurworld was another song I was listening to and thought about Thorn. I think that the voice actress for horse would be perfect for her tbh. also, Thorn has faced death many times, watching her entire family drop off like flies, so confronting the Black Rabbit of Inle isn't out of the realm of possibilities for her.

How much more intense would the conflict be if Fiver instead was faced with Silverweed wanting to take the magic and use it himself? (Though Fiver probably wouldn't immediately accuse Silverweed of being a traitor working for Woundwort, for one). What angst would Fiver go through learning that Silverweed made this sacrifice for HIM, costing him his youth and his future vision powers?