The thoughtful Scarecrow of Oz. So I’ve been thinking a lot about this character and I have reasons for his design beyond he looks cute.

First his hat: I think this would be the Munchkin hat, huge brim partly for shade and partly for parting those tall stalks of wheat as they work in the fields. Wheat is high for a 6ft tall person but even taller for a three foot tall munchkin.

Second his clothes: they’d be tiny, because he’s being made by munchkins out of scraps, they’d just use whatever was lying around.

Third his body: he’s designed to hang and also he’s meant to be a little scary, if I were a munchkin I’d find tall people creepy and I’d think they were all limbs, so I’d make my scarecrow that way too.

I'm doing an OZ themed blog with a couple of friends over on tumblr. themagicpicture.tumblr.com

Something I find interesting in OZ is the use of color. According to the books Munchkin Land is blue, but not just as a national color but everyone wears blue, houses are blue, maybe even wheat is blue.

I really wanted to do more of a legit illustration instead of a pinup like I’ve been doing with other OZ characters. I really wanted to get that “blue” feel that I think of of Munchkinland has while showing a somewhat sad moment in the life of the Scarecrow before he had his adventures with Dorothy.