Illustrator | Mole

I began at the end of last week drawing out Mole in Adobe Illustrator CS4. I decided to use David Petersen's art style as a loose inspiration, but not to use it too closely. I took some inspiration from the colours found on a Mouse Guard front cover for Mole's clothing although I need to experiment with some other colours for the jacket as I think it might be too bright for what I want to convey. 

I used the pen tool to create the initial outline and then I went to the brushes palette to apply a more artistic brush. I found a brush which was perfect to use; slightly broken, rough and grainy. I really like the results I've gained from this and so I will be (hopefully) in the next post showing you how it looks with this brush all over my drawing.