An adorable badge of Summer, drawn by  kacey at Furlandia 2025. Kacey draws some of the cutest, prettiest anthros in the fandom and uses traditional media masterfully.

A few random asides about Summer:

-I'm keeping her "absentminded professor" persona, but steering her away from Dark Academia aesthetics and towards more of a dreamy Whimsigoth vibe. I'm tired of the brown tweed.
-She's nude in a lot of recent art, because I'm indecisive about what I want her to wear. In-universe, I'm just explaining this by saying she's a naturist in private.
-I'm leaning towards replacing her black eyeglass frames with gold or silver ones, because I don't like how the black frames overpower her face.
-A lot of artists give Summer a bit of a pug-nosed look. To be fair, that's a stylistic choice, and it's pretty accurate to how her ref sheet and fursuit looks. But going forward, I may ask artists to push the "echidna" features by giving her a bit more of a snoot.
-She’s intended to be “cartoon blonde,” not literally yellow. I don’t know why this matters to me, but it does.