Wherein I have been quite busy

After being snagged for a time without any strong impetus or inspiration, the floodgates are loosed and I have set to work again. This time around, I have a vague goal for myself. I am hesitant to set it down solidly at this point, but these 7 things below are the first of many. Maybe 20 total. My hopes here, my eventual aim, is to have some kind of illustrated book. Or a picture book with some words at least. I'm a terrible writer when it comes to story arc and character development and all the everything else that goes into fiction, so I am hoping that the pictures will be able to dazzle people away from this fact. This will, I hope, be a story of machiavellian political struggles within an organization of fancy beasts in a world mostly, but not completely, unlike our own. We will see animals in fine suits maiming eachother, alliances formed and smashed, double cross and climactic beheadings. All the things we know and love. The first 7 are here-

A tragic double cross begins a chain of events that can only lead to mass murder and general unrest. A relatible situation with a guarantee of comedy.

The Grey-Coat Council convenes in secret, but progress is hampered as tempers flare and Brother Fox sets off on another one of his incomprehensible tirades.

Being of a naturally cantankerous disposition, Brother Badger is only too pleased to shove some poor bastard out a window to make a point about who is better at killing whom.

Brother Fox, inveterate swordsfox and smoker of fine tobaccos, relaxes after dispatching two would-be assassins.

Literate as hell. Murderer as fuck.

Brother Mouse, master of the distraction, can definitely get you to be looking at a lantern while he swoops in from the wings and swords you in the vitals.

Trampled to garbage by a fine and upstanding member of the Association. Humiliating, to be sure. Though also inevitable.

I've got sketches for at least 5 more and ideas running around for a good many further than that. I really should work on a story outline, so as to not end up with scenes that have to be hammered in somewhere, painted on a whim because I liked the image. But I've got some ideas on that front s well. Work continues. Updates to follow.