I will not confess to how many renditions of sprites it's taken to get me to this point, lmao. It's not perfect and I haven't really done any shading, it's mostly just been trying to get the right shapes and a decent sense of movement for what's limited to three frames. I feel like his ears are too static but I couldn't figure out how to fix that in a way that didn't turn out looking janky - or require more frames, which isn't an option in this specific case ^^; But hey, it's at a WIP stage that I don't hate, and I'm starting to get the hang of it!
Only noticed after the fact that the border outline doesn't apply to the bottom of his peets on the forward steps because they're already at the bottom of the canvas.... Oop, I'll worry about that later.