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stormy-nights-are-best · 3 months

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Had an arts assignment to illustrate a children's book of our choice and of COURSE I chose Moominvalley. It was super fun obviously-- it was hard to convert the text into PT-Portuguese though (I understand the language well enough, but speaking and writing? Impossible.),,

Here are some better-quality lower-saturation close-ups, and then how the illustrations and cover look with text ↓

#the thing under the stairs on the second picture is a momma hedgehog cuddled up to two babyhogs btw #i know it's hard to tell because everyone's asked me “uhh are those hedgehogs..???” so far #i translated little my to miminha because that literally‚ directly translates to “little mi”#IF ANYBODY WHO IS PORTUGUESE EVER SEES THIS PLEASE DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE TEXT I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING #i used the help of Google Translate and of a porch of geese friend but they were both completely useless #oh also one of the requirements was for the characters design to have small changes #that's why little my's dress is blue‚ the moomins have hooves‚ snufkin's tiny‚ etc #moomintroll #moominpappa #snufkin #little my #ninny the invisible child #sniff #snorkmaiden #snork #moomins fanart #moominvalley #moominmamma #at least i didn't have to translate snufkin's name to farisco and snorkmaiden's name to snorkina #farisco means sniff so the portuguese dub for the 2019 moomins just. made a massive mistake for no reason #and snorkina sucks #traditional art #watercolor #aquarela #colored pencil #masterpiece

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