This distracting fellow was produced for a heraldic submission (if it’s for free, does it still count as a “commission”?). What you see here is the initial drawing, which was simplified a bit for the actual submitted image. I worked from several images of leaping squirrels which I found on flickr, including a wonderful series taken in Scandinavia – hence the tufted ears. I’m extremely pleased with how this one turned out, and I’m going to need to find something to do with it for my own purposes, additional to the original request. It’s too much of a fun imageĀ not to.
Ink on paper.