Creole Jam, an illustration

The theme for this weeks illustration is "Turtle". I had a very clear cartoon running in my head for this theme. I imagined a music video for the Willie Nelson song "Blue Eyes Crying Rain". It involved Willie portrayed as a turtle (of course) and singing two part harmonies with another turtle. I realized quickly that there was just no way I was going to pull that off in a week with the amount of detail I need. So taking inapiration from that idea, I went for a scene with original characters (sorry Willie) and moved the setting a bit more east from deserts of Texas to the bayous of Louisiana where I can imagine a couple of traveling creole turtles eating beans, drinking hooch, telling stories and singing some ole creole songs. Turtles carry their home on their back and I thought that the caravan life is much like the life of a turtle. I loved adding the details with this one like the jug and the skillet, and I would've loved to make these characters move around and sing. Who knows... maybe an incarnation of that music video animation will happen one day?