
Recently came across the the story Watership Down by Richard Adams. It served to be an interesting anthromorphization, merging human culture to the base collectivization of rabbits. Basically about various warren (villages) inhabited by rabbits that converse and behave like the rest of human society. Here I jumped it up a notch making the characters anthro as related to my steampunk version of Adam's tale. The most interesting thing about the story was the rich mythology within it. For instance, the rabbits have a grim reaper known as the Rabbit of Inle. The character featured here is one of the protagonists called Fiver, he's mainly known to have visions of disaster. I couldn't help but to make his visions connected to the rabbit of Inle. I've considered going further in making a anthro comic loosely based on Watership Down, but for now I will most likely do related artwork.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Rabbit / Hare
Size 800 x 1000px
File Size 203.5 kB
Truth be told, I was largely kidding myself with adapting his franchise. This will most likely be the only adaptation, really. In any case, I'm sure he'd be on the fence about having his characters be more physically human alongside being culturally/mentally human. Certainly makes sense considering the overall complexity of the tale, but yeah, physically anthro characters are always a bit left field for most.
As a 59-year-old rabbit stoner, I must say that Watership Downs is literally the Bible for Rabbits. You have prophets, clever unlikely heroes, a corrupt legalistic set of High-Priests. An epic migration of a people to a better way of life. And by the Way, Watership Downs is a real place, not far from Stonehenge. It is marked on Google Earth. It is a high long windswept hill in south-central England.
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