Another long-delayed bit of art finally completed. This is basically to celebrate  UnstableBill's (WHO NEEDS TO GET A BLOODY WRITING WEBSITE UP FOR ME TO LINK TO ) first furry publication! His story "Trickster" is the leadoff in the PLUG--> ROAR 2 <--PLUG compilation, released last winter.

[EDIT: He's finally posted it here on FA!]

It's hard to know quite what to say without spoilers--heck, it was hard to DRAW without spoilers--but the theme of Roar 2 is games. So, in Trickster, basically an ancient curse haunts a vacationing young wolf, his friends, and his beloved younger brother, and sets them on a hunt with some mindbending puzzles.
This is how I imagined Trickster's book cover, had I been contracted to do it as an independent publication. I worked a number of the puzzles, hopefully not obviously, into the background (and if you've read the story, no spoilers!) Sadly I had a couple concepts featuring more of the characters, but it just got too cluttered and when it boiled down to all side characters, or none, none won out. The camo shorts may seem overly standard in my art, but they were the last to be colored; everything else was vital to the characters, and you have to admit camo graphically matches the color scheme perfectly.
Almost all the coloring was done by hand, although I did alter the layout of the yellow grid slightly and then decided that was easier to do with all-digital lines. The only thing I'm not happy with is the bottom white line, but conceptually a title and author credit would have to go somewhere, so...

So, go buy it! I unfortunately have not read the whole book (it took eight months just to draw this, I don't have much reading time!) but I know there's other good stuff in it. I did catch another chapter which is a prequel to  nuwisha55's Save the Day, so most of you should be familiar with THAT COUGHAHEM

Mikey & Louie ©Shep