I’m continuing the painting series of my favorite...

I’m continuing the painting series of my favorite Discworld characters. I started drawing Cheery on Saturday, which would have been Terry Pratchett’s 70th birthday. So, with a little sadness, I picked Corporal Cheery Littlebottom, a disgraced Alchemist who quickly becomes the forensics expert in the City Watch, and goes on to spark a gender revolution. We first meet Lance Constable Littlebottom in the book Feet of Clay. She’s a new recruit in the Watch. She’s originally from Überwald, and was in the Ankh-morpork Alchemist’s Guild for a while, but was a bit careless with the volatile compounds and kicked out. She’s like a one-woman CSI department, so their loss is Ankh-morpork’s gain. Even though she’s not a main character in any of the books, Cheery is definitely one of my favorites. I’m going to sum up with a passage from Feet of Clay between Captain Carrot (who is a bit on the conservative side) and Sergeant Angua:

“Do you think there’s something a bit…odd about Littlebottom?”
“Seems like a perfectly ordinary female to me,” said Angua.
“Female? He told you he was female?”
“She,” Angua corrected. “This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.”

More on gender equality in Pratchett: “Creating a Space of One’s Own: Dialogues of Gender in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” by Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem (https://goo.gl/uuEFzS).

More of my Discworld favorites: http://SaltwaterWitch.com