From, ehhh...two years back now, somewhere around there. We were assigned to create a mock-children's book in a class of mine, so I threw some characters together. This coincided with my slaughter-retinas-with-the-red-of-the-sunset phase, oh yes

The turtle lady's name is Ruby and she's an apprentice glassblower, but the bear siblings were never fully developed outside of visual work.

graphite and digital color