Step 1 - New Beginnings (Tobias)

Desperately wanting to get my hands on a body dye potion for Tobias, since I have some marking change plans. Nothing suuuper major, but still important to me. Best way to get my hands on a dye potion? Get started on the identity trial, of course xD

I animated this part for my last Bean (before I traded them), and I kind of didn't want to draw the same thing, so I tried to think of what else I could do. Eventually this popped out of my doodling - Tobias, with his newly sewn (and full of claw holes) bag, approaching Fabian's home apprehensively. By this point in his life the little Bean was still quite anxious in personality, expecting to hurt everyone he touched. He had yet to discover the source of his 'confidence' (if you want to call it that).

I searched around for a while, but I couldn't seem to find any house reference for Fabian? Only the wooden floorings, and the tree with the Earth door.... Sooooo I thought I'd have a shot at designing something for it. I hope that's ok 8w8;;

It looks sort of like a giant hidden mushroom patch in the woods, except it's wiZARD HATS? The main building/room is made out of a massive tree trunk, and there's another, smaller tree sprouting out from the back of the building (I was thinking this is the tree with the Earth door/portal on it?)... But yeah! You don't have to accept this as canon or nothing, I just thought I'd try and see if I could make something creative out of it. I'm fine with others using the same concept though. None of this is really mine to decide haha OTL

I'm slowly getting better at backgrounds. Figuring out small techniques I can use which make them better! But I'm still not an expert by any means haha, I could have vastly improved the lighting and colours in this one for example. Welp, practice is practice! I'll get there eventually

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Art/Tobias belongs to me.
Bagbeans species/Fabian belongs to griffsnuff
Made with Paint Tool SAI.
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