“Rabbit War” is a peice I created with the Goat-taur character designs I posted on November 4th and November 5th. You probably notice the striking resemblance of characters in the Goat-taur army to the characters I designed for the latter post.
As in most of my layout sketches, I seek to tell a story. In “Rabbit War,” a member of the rabbit Thumper’s family is being held captive by the evil Goat-taurs. The character Thumper is of course inspired by the Disney classic Bambi. It is up to Thumper’s family to save the imperiled member of their brood even while the Goat-taurs remains staunchly proud and defiant. These aren’t your Grandpappy’s Thumpers and they no doubt have a trick or two up their sleeves to overwhelm their mighty foe.
You have already seen the character designs, but I have gotten great feedback on sharing the visual development of these layouts. As always, it starts with a rough thumbnail:
I then go through the process of making sense of my scribble and begin to develop a rough layout which are merely bigger scribbles.
The thumnail is usually no more than 2 inches wide, but I blow it up more than 500% to begin the real sketching. Feel free to click on my rough layout to see a larger version.
Wow, this is crazy. It’s like Lewis Carroll and MC Escher and the color even reminds me of some of the sketches of Da Vinci. Wow, put that on your resume’.
You have a great imagination! I love your sketches.
wah!! thats weird well any-who great job!
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Poor hares!
(joke). I like your sketches, they’re full of imagination and talent! Keep up, I believe you have a great future!
Helen
http://flashymania.blogspot.com
hugely helpful — one sees your finished work, and comes away depressed… how can I get there… but then I see how you start — and this is the stuff left out of the books… it’s a process, but I’d like to see about 64 images of the process.
Or a video… Ustream? Youtube? Just a thought.
Of course,
helps to have raw ability and natural talent 
Wonderful as always really enjoying the blog.