I figured I should actually upload something I'd done recently for my illustration course - I mean, I'm drawing and painting stuff pretty much every day, and it just never gets uploaded here. So I'm submitting two out of twelve illustrations I painted for my final project this year. If people want me to upload any more of them, then do please ask, but I don't want to overload people's inboxy things with mass submissions.

These are illustrations of Rudyard Kipling's story 'The Beginning of the Armadilloes', and they were all done with watercolours. Proper traditional media - I'd forgotten how much I love it <3
The originals were approximately 45cm wide and 25 cm high, and in my exhibition I also had a book mockup showing where I anticipated the text would go in each of them.

( for the record, the text on this page is

"One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted
Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise
sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree. They could not run away, and
so Stickly-Prickly curled himself up into a ball, because he was a
Hedgehog, and Slow-Solid Tortoise drew in his head and feet into his
shell as far as they would go, because he was a Tortoise; and so
that was all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?
'Now attend to me,' said Painted Jaguar, 'because this is very
important. My mother said that when I meet a Hedgehog I am to drop him
into the water and then he will uncoil, and when I meet a Tortoise I
am to scoop him out of his shell with my paw. Now which of you is
Hedgehog and which is Tortoise? because, to save my spots I can't
tell.'
'Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?' said Stickly-Prickly
Hedgehog. 'Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you
uncoil. a Tortoise you must shell him out of the water with a scoop,
and when you paw a Hedgehog you must drop him on the shell.'
'Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?' said Slow-and-Solid
Tortoise. 'Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you water
a Hedgehog you must drop him into your paw, and when you meet a
Tortoise you must shell him till he uncoils.'
'I don't think it was at all like that,' said Painted Jaguar, but he
felt a little puzzled; 'but, please, say it again more distinctly.' "

And I really shouldn't have to say this, but just to cover myself, none of that text belongs to me, it was written by Rudyard Kipling, in his infinite wisdom, O Best Beloved. )

(and sorry for the watermark - I'm quite precious about these, for obvious reasons)