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When I have had a long day of thinking to hard about work, I like to turn my brain off for awhile and read a redwall book.

If you have never read one I want you to imagine a 400 some odd pages tolkienesqe book about warrior animals from britain. About 200 pages of the book are about food or feasting, 100 pages are gruesome midieval weapon related death, and the last 100 pages are filled with miscellaneous descriptions of woodlands ...or folksongs. Eveybody has an outrageous accent and your either baby-eating bad or mother theresa good, no inbetweens.

So here is my interpretation of one of my favorite characters from the series, Lady Cregga Rose Eyes. She's a female warrior badger (my favorite race in the books) and shes pretty badass. Not only does this chick become one of the most powerful female warriors to possess bloodwrath (staining her eyes permenant red) she manages to outlive three generations of characters AFTER having her eyes hacked out with a sword blinding her and then at like 100 badger years she gets shot full of arrows and still takes three days to die.

That is a woman doing it for herself.
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Redwall-Lady Rose Eyes by *killskerry : From the suggester:"Redwall was one of my favorite series when I was growing up and it is delightful to see art of this caliber. The style looks like it should belong on the cover of one of them." ( Suggested by ~Lizzieknight and Featured by $aunjuli )
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~Starhorse Dec 26, 2012  Professional General Artist
love the art and I love your succinct sum-up of redwall books XD
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~ashleyjordan Nov 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Wonderful portrayl of Lady Cregga, this does her justice and the style of this is very unique and even reminds me of the tapestry! It is so amazing to find good fanart of Redwall and you have clearly done a fabulous job! I really liked your descriptions as well, yep Jacques sort of only let his world be black or white and in a way, it was somewhat nice like that.
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Mood: Amazed ~theWeaverofTales Sep 19, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
ooooooohhhhhh....... I've never seen Cregga so awesome!
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~Shiranai-chan Sep 14, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Cregga was a bamf...plain and simple x) Fantastic work on the picture! It's absolutely beautiful ♥
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~silverfeathersongs Aug 11, 2012
Damn I love Redwall
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~Speciesunkn0wn Jul 24, 2012
her eyes were NOT hacked out by a sword. the bloodwrath is what caused her to go blind (that and them getting SLASHED [not hacked] by a blade)
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*killskerry Jul 24, 2012  Professional Filmographer
Hack-

Synonyms:break, chisel, chop, clip, crack, crack off, crumble, cut away, cut off, damage, flake, fragment, gash, hew, incise, nick, notch, shape, shear, SLASH, slice, sliver, snick, snip, splinter, split, whack, whittle
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~Speciesunkn0wn Jul 25, 2012
oh.
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Mood: Love Dazed ~LovesHeartBreak Jul 1, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Cregga! She was always one of my favorite badgers :D My favorite has to be the badass Constance :D my second favorite would be Sunflash, then, it's Cregga, and then Rowanoak, and then Urthstripe & Urthwyte, and the list goes on..... LOVE THIS DEVIATION SO MUCH!
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~Lindsl May 10, 2012
Not to mention, the lady is fantastic at taming the wily children with her voice alone. Very useful trick, that.

Excellent portrait of a warrior badger.

Your description fits the book perfectly! I can't read any Redwall book hungry, not with all the feasting they indulge in. And man, it makes me want to cook some of the dishes too.
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