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Not sure when this song will be posted - hopefully before I leave on my mission, ha ha - but I did the painting for it today, so I wanted to post it.

The story behind this? When I was ten, I was a huge fan of the Redwall series. Still am. I will forever fondly remember Brian Jacques and his tales of that world, for they were the stories that made ME want to write and tell my own stores. It was thanks to the mice of Mossflower that I started telling my own tales. If you haven't read the Redwall series, do so. It's fantastic.

Anyway, one of the books, Pearls of Lutra, became noteworthy to me. That's because it had a song in it - like all the Redwall books, that were full of poetry meant to be songs. This song was at the very beginning, a short verse of a sea chanty that covered the plot of the story. Why was it of note to me? Because I found the song for it. It was my first time coming up with ANY sort of original music. I happened to find a tune that fit perfectly to the words and the feel of the song, at least I thought so, and I've always remembered that song.

And then, recently, I agreed with 4everefreebrony to collaborate on bringing that song to life, for real.

We haven't gotten far into the project yet, but I hope it'll be finished before I go. Because it's a song I hold dear to my heart, because of the stories it represents to me.

Anyhoo, with this picture. I intended it to be some sort of swirling-smoke-becomes-the-character look, but instead it sort of spiraled away from that. But I still really like how it turned out. Heh. XD I hope the song ends up epic enough to match it. I had a lot of fun making the painting.

It may very well end up the last painting I do for 2013. Sort of fitting, in a way. A call-back to before, to end off a year of going forward.

Yep.

Pearls of Lutra (c) Brian Jacques

Art (c) me

Song (c) me and 4everfreebrony

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Not sure when this song will be posted - hopefully before I leave on my mission, ha ha - but I did the painting for it today, so I wanted to post it.

The story behind this? When I was ten, I was a huge fan of the Redwall series. Still am. I will forever fondly remember Brian Jacques and his tales of that world, for they were the stories that made ME want to write and tell my own stores. It was thanks to the mice of Mossflower that I started telling my own tales. If you haven't read the Redwall series, do so. It's fantastic.

Anyway, one of the books, Pearls of Lutra, became noteworthy to me. That's because it had a song in it - like all the Redwall books, that were full of poetry meant to be songs. This song was at the very beginning, a short verse of a sea chanty that covered the plot of the story. Why was it of note to me? Because I found the song for it. It was my first time coming up with ANY sort of original music. I happened to find a tune that fit perfectly to the words and the feel of the song, at least I thought so, and I've always remembered that song.

And then, recently, I agreed with 4everefreebrony to collaborate on bringing that song to life, for real.

We haven't gotten far into the project yet, but I hope it'll be finished before I go. Because it's a song I hold dear to my heart, because of the stories it represents to me.

Anyhoo, with this picture. I intended it to be some sort of swirling-smoke-becomes-the-character look, but instead it sort of spiraled away from that. But I still really like how it turned out. Heh. XD I hope the song ends up epic enough to match it. I had a lot of fun making the painting.

It may very well end up the last painting I do for 2013. Sort of fitting, in a way. A call-back to before, to end off a year of going forward.

Yep.

Pearls of Lutra (c) Brian Jacques

Art (c) me

Song (c) me and 4everfreebrony