Toile De Jouy Pattern- Beaver Springs

For around 11 months now, I have playing a horror comedy campaign in a tabletop roleplaying game using the Monster of the Week system that we have lovingly dubbed "Beaver Springs." This campaign follows a ragtag group of acquaintances fighting for their lives, hunting monsters, and escaping by the skin of neck every time in the small rural fictional Colorado town called Beaver Springs, for which the story is named after.

This stupid and silly story has been a very large source of creative inspiration for me and many others, as seen this this piece I did for a friend's birthday over the summer. The monster in the background was drawn by @mart.art76 on instagram.(That I really think needs a lot more work, looking at it now, but it serves as a good example regardless.)

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So when given an opportunity to create a Toile de Jouy pattern where something was slightly amiss, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I went for a more rustic nature scene with the occasional monstrous/ominous figures looming around to give the an eerie feeling. I created my motifs on bristol board with micron pens after sketching each thing out. Two of the more out of place motifs are creatures we fought in the campaign, with the ominous man with the leather jacket and aviator glasses being a peuchen, an aztec giant flying snake that steals organs and blood, disguised as a human. Here is the pattern, mocked up as a wallpaper with a few color variants.

While I am happy with the final result, I am a bit upset I was unable to add Buckfang, because I really struggled drawing it properly in micron pens. Who or what is Buckfang, you ask? Well it's the giant mutant beaver with fangs where its buck teeth would be, as seen in the art above. It's kind of the mascot of sorts for the Beaver Springs campaign, so the fact that I couldn't draw him properly in the more detail heavy style is a bit annoying to me. If I were to repeat this project again or be given more time, I'd be sure to add it, as long with some more general nature motifs like more variants on the trees, rocks, and mountain ranges so that it loops a bit less.