First Snow of the Year

I guess it's original art week here on my DA. :3

This is Chester, also from Greatheart. This was for a contest on another site, the theme of which was drawing one of your characters when they were younger. So here's young Chester!

Of course, I couldn't make a happy picture and instead had to draw him feeling sad about his dead dad. The dark band on his arm shows the family is still in mourning, and Chester is facing his first winter without his father.

Chester's mother takes good care of him, fortunately, but I'm sure thoughtful Chester went off by himself somewhere to miss his father and remember playing in the snow with him.

I wanted to practice not being so reliant on line art, and also using a limited palette. It's just a simple picture, but I like it that way.