Backgrounds

I'm working on the background for my pages. I want them to represent the shift from sunset to sunrise throughout the book. Here's an experiment for the first two pages. I quite like the silhouette of the trees. The sky is painted with watered down acrylics, although ideally I want all the backgrounds to be ink. I shall see...

Bearskin

Added bearskin hats for the mice. Just painted onto photocopies. I need to start drawing my animals in context intead of still, posed portraits.

Also... a fox. He's supposed to be rabid and drunk. Yes, he needs much work on him...