jayrockin:

More Gnomeworld stuff. Oakfell is the town the protagonist trio start their journey from, and it’s a pretty typical small village. Gnome settlements tend to be built like fortresses, since so many animals are interested in eating
either

them or their crops. The spikes and planted pricklebushes around the perimeter are meant to deter large herbivores, which on the grasslands are hooved birds anywhere from turkey to horse sized. In addition to the small well-irrigated garden, Oakfell gnomes seasonally harvest and cultivate the region’s wild grasses, berry brambles, and nut trees. Some of the dirt rooms below the oak are used to keep their meat livestock: large fat beetles who happily turn garden scraps into protein.

The queen of Oakfell has been in charge of the village’s reproduction for about 18 years, and at the start of the tale is working on her 15th litter. As a gnome in the afternoon of her life, she has a full ruff and mustache– the protagonists are closer in age to the young adult I drew. She wears oats in her hat as a symbol of fertility.