Just an idea I had.

Forest guardians watching over the path the young magician approches. Maybe they will tell him to be carefull, maybe they would just watch silently. Or they will poop on him. They can be real jerks.

I downloaded a really big brush set from Deviantart (can't find it now ..) and tried using some of them. I wasn't someone who used different brusches very often, but now I think I will use them frequently. I really like how this turned out.

The title translates 'forest watch' from German.