Illustration Friday: Slither

I told myself I wouldn't do anything snake-related for this prompt. Slither. It's just too obvious.

Then as the night wore on, my mind kept returning to how reptiles are often bad guys in the cartoons and movies and books I could remember, and then I started getting annoyed about that. Finally, I determined that what my reptilian friends need was better press, and what better way than a cutesy cartoons where they are the heroes for once?

"Okay, gang, so whoever our litterer is, they're shedding. If I'm right, we can follow this trail right to them, but we might have to split up," Colby the Cobra said to his fellow Slither Scouts, and adding, after a moment, "Sorry, Horatio."

So yeah, here we have the 'Slither Scouts'(or Slither Squad, Serpentien Serpentine Scouts, something like this)! A club of a few young snakes out to explore and have fun and solve mysteries when they can).

Colby the Cobra there is the leader, and to the left is Vicky the Viper, contemplating the evidence. The little guy on the right is Greg Garters, who is not yet in the club and so does not have a nifty blue bandana. Hiding behind him is Horatio Hognose.

There's a Python and a Boa in the club also, but I was having trouble deciding exactly what species I would use as their base, and I was running out of time. If your eyes are keen and my hands are talented, then you might see that Colby is an Egyptian Cobra, Vicky is an eyelash viper, and Horatio and Greg's species are like right in their names, but I think Horatio is some manner of Eastern Hognose, while Greg is... the Common Garter, basically. Yeah, I know, some of these guys aren't even in the same hemisphere, but I'm going to play the cartoonish creative liberties card, and say it's more interesting to play with snakes from around the world instead of restricting myself to one country or continent. As well as the typical 'this is a world where snakes talk and solve crime and wear cutesy little bandanas and you have a problem with ' card also.

So yeah, I could rant on for a good 500 words on why snakes are cute with proof, and I could also go on about the personalities and stuff on the Scouts up there, but I am le tired and I need to also work on that 'posting/picture ratio' thing. Maybe when I sketch out these guys some more, I'll make another post.

... And yeah, the background is... not as nice as it could be, but the deadline was ticking closer and the snakes were the focus of the picture.

... Which either came out blurrier than I wanted it to, or I really ought to go to bed. I'm going to say the latter, because there are birds chirping outside.

HI ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY! Man it's been awhile. Next post will explain my lapse in posting, I swears it, right now I need to sleep. Did I mention how tired I am?