My best friend

I'm taking part in the Character Drawcember! I already completed weeks 1 and 2, but in here I'm only gonna post the finished drawings. The sketches are all being posted in my Facebook page
These two were made for the protagonist theme (they are always together so it would make no sense drawing only one of them). Pepper is this little cross-eyed witch who lives in a giant mushroom forest. She used to live with her grandpa in a secluded cottage before he died, and she has never left the forest, so she doesn't really know much about life and the outside world (she doesn't even know how to read well)
Nobu is a bear who was cursed with the Curse of Silence (the mark on his shoulder), which made him able to only understand human language. Unable to communicate with other bears anymore, Nobu was excluded from his group, and wandered the forest until he met Pepper, and the two ended up becoming the best of friends
These are the oldest characters I kept (made in 2012 I think), and I love them so much nghhhhhh