November- Near Miss

Well, for Thanksgiving, here's November's painting from the calendar. :)

Poor pilgrim's been hunting alllll day and nothing. What bad timing on that break he finally takes.

At the concept stage I thought of perving this one up more but I decided to go with a bit of a challenge instead: to make a pilgrim sexy while still keeping him 'pilgrimy'.

The idea for the turkey actually came from an assignment I had in elementary school where for Thanksgiving we had to write a little finger-puppet play. Me being me couldn't keep it simple and actually designed my own finger-puppet sceneryin addition to the little pilgrim and turkey cut-outs they gave us to color.
The story I came up with was basically two pilgrims wandering around frustrated at what to have for dinner. A turkey in the bushes overhears them, gets frustrated with all the noise and stupidity and blurts out a few ideas, before quickly realizing his mistake. Fortunately for the turkey, he was helpful and the pilgrims thank him by not eating him. :) I was like 8.

I wanted a few more humourous pieces for the calendar and thought inspiration from that story could be funny.

The pilgrim's hair I thought was a little different and was a bit tricky (as in a little more work) to get his hair to curl at the ends, but I think it turned out interesting. The musket I got rather caught up in the detailing. And the turkey I tried to balance making it cartoony but still fit with the style of the painting.

Happy Thanksgiving!