Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the sheds, you could hear the screeching of our dearest Spendid Red.

I couldn't sleep last night so as the clock passed midnight I was drawing James, like always!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Just done my first post and Commission on my Kofi account!!
This commission is for @blackmoore_rose with an illustration of a poster for his Roblox game Llangyford Tramway, which is getting a major revamp!
Go check the post out on my Kofi on the WIPs!
ko-fi.com/ryanrts1701

Hey Hey!!
Want to comm an Illustration?? Or have Fictional Locomotive you want drawing??
I am opening up my commissions!!
Will be opening them in slots of 5. Send a message in my DMs or head over to my new Kofi page to enquire!! ko-fi.com/ryanrts1701

his character traits, I can see development within him and I've been told that I can voice James quite well.
James is my comfort character, and has helped me throughout my mental struggle. But even if he isn't your favourite, we all have our own characters that give us comfort!

Having been in my own mental rut, and having the need to find comfort and enjoyment from something that wouldn't burden other people, it has only dawned on me in the past several weeks that James the Red Engine has become my comfort character. I like his design, his backstory, -

relevance to plot actually is.
However, others gain enjoyment from particular characters and often will reread or rewatch stories they feature in, try and voice the characters or create their own fan-like content in the form of stories, plots, artwork and videos. -

throughout this tough period, other than my friendship with all of the amazing people I have met, has been comfort characters.
To some, particular characters are disliked due to how they are canonically and fanonically written, how they may appear by design or what their -

that is comfort characters!!
A very Personal Note, but for the past year my mental health has taken a severe dive and there have been multiple occasions where I have snapped and broken down into panic attacks and floods of tears.
One of the many things that has kept me sane -

I'm gonna talk about something that I think is very important to me and its something that should be talked about!
THREAD
Mental Health is important, and it stays with someone for a varied amount of time.
Something else that's important is what helps them in their hard times, and

Jim Jam

Moving to Bluesky, I wanna bring back this trend!!

Give me any Railway characters you wanna see me draw!!

Do this trend too as it's really good for drawing characters!!

#Sixfanarts

The character vs how I drew them

#TTTE
#Jamestheredengine
#Thomasandfriends

Ohhh poor James, he just can't get a break can he??
Oh well, he'll find something eventually ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This came into my head as a silly little idea and just fit James too perfectly!!

I've done this in a VC as a bit, and now I've committed it to life!