"Life is often frightening.
The first instinct is to bolt, the next to hide, the last, to surrender to fear and let circumstance command you.
Yet for all that, there is beauty and belonging, if you find someone to lead you there."

This is a photocopy of https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58202543/ which I took colored pencil to and finally made my first traditional color submission today.
I had a good longtime friend show me pressure proof-of-concept on the upraised "glowing ring" hand, then I went ahead and did the rest of it.
Fair start, I think.

I will be at Anthrocon 2025 starting Wednesday so I won't be posting new works there but I will likely comment and journal!

And if anyone wants to give a smile or a hug to the man behind the otter and the rabbit beside the ferret, I'll be there!


Dedicated to all the best of my life's people, past, present, and absent, who got me to this point