The Gloomer (B&W Portrait)

So much fun making the Gloomer as gross as possible! I am going to paint a full view colour Gloomer, because I find him just so awesome.

PN: Photoshop went a little weird when I was painting the collar, the greys wouldn’t blend well. Luckily the collar was the only thing I had to do so it didn’t effect the rest of the painting.

From Redwall Wiki:

The Gloomer was an enormous, frightening, mindless black water rat that lived in the underground lake of Kotir and was controlled by Tsarmina and her army. Verdauga captured and imprisoned him long ago. He was used as a sort of attack animal to fight the wildcat's enemies and met his demise upon battling the vicious Stormfin, an enormous pike, in the River Moss.

The Gloomer was blind and hard of hearing, but had enhanced smell. He did not exhibit self-consciousness and was veritably insane from many seasons of imprisonment in the dark lake.

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Character ©: Brian Jacques’ book, Mossflower
Art + Character design © Myself