For Karen! This is a Camarilla character, Meg the hedgehog woman (also a friend of Mnerillenith):
This was a lot of fun (especially since hedgehog reference photos were included ♥), and also pretty challenging. I wanted to see if I could draw glass without using any grayscale… I think it turned out all right. 
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tags: camarilla, complete, inked, karen, meg
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February 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 AM
Beautiful! I love those whiskers. ^_^
Contrasting the warmth of the flowers and greenhouse environment with the snowflake motif is really neat.
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:28 PM
oh … wow! That is a truly awesome picture. gosh.
*is very very impressed*
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Aw, wow! That looks really lovely. Awesome job on the garden. This kind of makes me think of Redwall hedgehogs. =) The clothese look really nice and the whole picture has a warm, fun, professional feel about it. Great job, Aja!
February 4th, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Thanks, guys! ^^
Ooh, Redwall… It’s been ages since I read that series. Sadly, I don’t remember much about the hedgehogs. (Actually the only thing that really stuck in my mind was that all the villains seemed to have names ending in double consonants.) XD I should pick those up again sometime.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Being a rat owner myself, I was disipointed about how rats were always bad and could never chage. Also, the black and white of the books kind of put me off. I read about ten but they kind of became like Zanth books for kids. Very pridictable ect. So! About your drawing Aja, I think is one of cutest things I have seen in a while. I think I squeed when I saw it.
February 5th, 2009 at 1:01 AM
One of the redwall rats did change! I think it was in the bellmaker or something, there are two rats that come to redwall. One of them just stays evil, but one of them quite enjoys it and ends up living somewher nearby as a hermit. I wish i could remember his name, because he was the Only One in the entire series and I rather liked him.
I used to love those books as a kid. But yeah looking back on them now they are disappointingly predictable and a very good/evil polarised.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:47 AM
His name was Blaggut. ^^ Unfortunately, he was also rather dimwitted, but he was the only vermin who ever became good AND didn’t die (i.e. Romsca in ‘Pearls of Lutra’, who was sort of good in the end). I agree, the stories are very black and white and get kind of predictable after a while, but many of them are still a really good read. =D Esp. when you’re a kid! My favorites are Lord Brocktree, Rakkety Tam, and Marlfox, personally. Long Patrol was really good, too…in fact, almost all of the original 10 or 12 are quite excellent. Didn’t care for the new High Rhulain, though; no suspense WHATsoever.
They weren’t completely black and white in all areas, at least: the shrews had a tendency to side with evil if they were particularly bad-tempered. There are certainly some fun fanfictions on the net that defy the polarized concepts in the book, though; those are fun to read. ^^
February 5th, 2009 at 9:40 AM
I understand why they’re so black and white. The kids reading them see the world more or less in black and white terms. He writes really good for his intended readers. However, from an adults P.O.V. it becomes too boring after about 12 of them. I read like 13 or 14 Zanth books as well but found them also too predictable and they are intended for adults!
February 5th, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I forgot about Romasca! Not sure how because Pearls of Lutra was my favourite, followed closely by mattemio and that one with Sunstripe the mace in it (so sad!). And they were very good for kids, they had younger protagonists, fast-paced plots and more description than he really should have been able to get away with. And excessively long descriptions of food which is as close as you get to orgasmic when you’re a child.
(sorry if that overstepped a line but seriously, three pages describing puddings when the desire for sweet things makes up most of your life is like a different type of heaven.)
The shrews were fun. I liked the shrews (they had bandanas! and were about twice as small as everyone else).
lol sorry if i talk to much, this is seriously taking me back though =D
February 6th, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Nah, if you talk to much, it just means that I have permission to, as well! ;D
That was Outcast of Redwall. ^^ Lol, look at me soundin’ all expert on the Redwall series. I have a few of them, and I actually have a relative/neighbor who has collected EVERY SINGLE ONE, in hardcover! (which always impresses me).
(Yeah, that was kinda crass, Lab Rat. I won’t lie.) I always liked the food parts. =D I so wanted to try some of those dishes. Did you know that there is a small book on the otters of redwall that includes a recipe for Hotroot Soup? I was SO EXCITED! I made a pan for me and my brother. It didn’t turn out quite right, though, because it was thick so Mom told me to add milk. But milk destroys spiciness, so it wasn’t spicy. Bah. Will have to try it again someday and get it right!
I liked the otters and squirrels and hares best. =D And then the mice. And wildcats always made the coolest villains. And the foxes, liked the foxes, too. I have an idea for a fanfiction about an otter who was raised by a not-evil band of foxes and comes to Redwall. (Riverfox, get it? Yes, it’s a play on my nickname…and yes, I know this sounds like Taggerung. I can’t help it that he also used an otter in that situation! ^^;)
OO! We forgot one! Gingivere the wildcat from Mossflower was never evil! =D I always liked him! And then there was the ginger cat in Redwall (the first book), and that big owl who was very ambiguous.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Owls did tend to be somewhat ambiguous if I remember. Hmm, can’t remember Gingivere, it’s been a while since I read Mossflower. And wildcats and foxes were the best villains, heh, they made all the generic rat/weasle/stoat combinations look fairly pathetic.
I never bought too many of the books, but they did have all the hardbacks in the library which I remember wieghed about a ton when I was seven and got three out at once. The pictures on the front covers were just gorgeous though, same goes for the softbacks. Such wonderful art.
I’m sure there is a redwall recipe book somewhere! I remember reading about one, with all the instructions for hotroot soup and deeper-than-ever pie and stuff. (A quick amazon search confirms it, The Redwall Cookbook =D )
*Apologises profusely for earlier crassness*
June 15th, 2010 at 7:25 AM
Well, Veil in Outcast of Redwall saved his foster mother’s life at the end, if that counts as good. I like the picture, too. Its got a sort of homey feel. I’d like to live there.