After completing the Seal of the Department of Education, it was only natural to want to see what the seals of the other dozen departments. While it was obvious that I couldn't just sit down and draw them all (especially because I finished that first seal at a pizza stand), i did not know when I would be able to draw them if at all. My decision was to draw them as they were needed, and it so happened that the first one I ended up needing was the Seal of the Department of Civil Engineering.

Now it is interesting that the second seal I would produce would be this one, because this one, according to the in-world canon, actually changed during its production. Originally, the artist commisioned to create the seal drew a male. However, the mice have a rule that, in their seals, there should always be as many males as there are females. At the time the seal was made, rather than a dozen departments, there were only eight, and of them, four depicted males in their seals, two depicted females, and the other two did not have a seal yet.

So basically, while the artist created this perfect drawing of a male for the seal; he presented it, only to be told "Sorry, too many guys. Come back when you have a girl."

Reasonably ticked off, the seal artist drew over the drawing of the male. This is why the dress has buttons at the front that don't button-up anything, gruff hands, and the mouse depicted has some odd details on her muzzle. The artist made a special effort to cover up every detail elsewhere in the drawing, which is why it looks the way it does.

Obviously, when I made it, I didn't have the time to make a drawing, erase it, and draw over it again, so I just tried to match what I could see in my head on the first go