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I just finished a watercolor illustration commissioned by Hannah B., based very closely on Alphons Maria Mucha’s Bières de la Meuse (though I was asked to make la Meuse Korean!), as well as several other source illustrations:

Aaaaaand here’s the line art (look at all dem lines, man):

And in the interest of full disclosure, here are the source illustrations that I copied, to Hannah’s specifications:

+ Alphons Maria Mucha - Bières de la Meuse (1897)

+ Beatrix Potter - Squirrel Nutkins

+ the March 1896 cover of The Black Cat magazine

+ Alexander Calder - Horse Tricks

I pulled the bird from my own brain folds.

I never feel very comfortable copying other artists’ works (though I have done it before) so I tend to avoid accepting such requests, but this commission sounded like it would turn out real pretty, and damn it, I wanted to draw and paint somethin’ reeeeeeal pretty. And don’t the little hose-beasts remind you of the Bremen Stadtmusikanten? It’s one of my favorite folk tales!