Wind In the Willlows

This image is to show the weasels taking over toad hall, I thought this would be a good image for wind and the willows book cover as it shows the darker side of the book instead of the traditional approach to the book as everyone knows what rattie, molie, toad and badger look like.

This is what i think the main characters from wind in the willows would look like, the toad is slightly scary (not to sure if I like him). But I dont want to make the book cover of the characters on the cover as I want to show the other side of the book the more scary part. This image would need a background but not to sure what to do for it though.

This is my first attempt to colour on photoshop, I decided to do the colouring on photoshop as to expand my knowledge of the technique. And I thought it would be quicker ( which I was wrong). I found it quite hard to get the right colur tones to match and to do the highlight?sheaded areas.

this is the second phase of colouring which is adding colour to toad hall (building in the back). because i had finished the weasels the building wasnt to hard to do.

this is the final outcome, I added some bushes to give the background a bit more detail and not to make everything seem flat. Overall I like the image I do need to work on my photoshop skills but that will come in the next projects. the image could be a little darker as to show more of the dark scary side of the book. I think I should of spent a little more time on this project but there we go.