#tree princess

Holy cussing stars the time this took so I could learn how to render wood, chipped wood, ceramic, and cloth textures. 😫

Because every soldier needs his lovely princess to protect, here’s Holly as a ceramic princess doll! Kudos to @sirensea14 for the design idea. I made a few edits to her original sketch, but largely the design belongs to her!

I don’t think there’s enough time for me to babble about everything my friends and I have talked about for these two, but the idea is Cuphead and Mugman protect their lovers as a soldier and knight would. It felt only fitting for Holly to be a personification of a “Tree Princess” for him to protect. Her being made of china would make her all the more delicate and she’d have to worry about not cracking. So of course Cuphead would take that upon himself to fiercely protect her and make sure she stays safe! Even at the extend of his own safety

AKA why I made him look so banged up is 1. from roughing it out in the woods (more later on the world building) and 2. a lot of accidents in his efforts to protect her and AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHTHEY’RESOCUTEEEEE!!!!

Im gabbing so much about this AU you have no idea!!!!

so,,,, I promised myself I wouldn't post any more doodles until I got better at humans and stuff, ya know, so I wouldn't post the same thing with a slightly different facial expression, but then I was watching vines at 9:30, and for some godly, unknown reason, my mind had flashbacks to when I was like, nine, and I remembered that one "Fluttershy's Lament" video.... And then I just knew that the "I'd like to be a tree line" was perfect for the Tree Princess. So I decided to get out of bed and doodle this real quick, so sorry (also I can't write in fancy fonts and I don't know how people do that it's magic)

That aside, that got me thinking about Mystery Swap. What if Swap!Holly was some kind of... Tree fairy? Fae? Nymph?? Whatever they are called? Or she had contact with them. And she really was a Tree Princess. That would explain Snowball's existence in this universe. Holly was messing around with magical tree powers and POOF- Dandelion hedgehog.