Who here knows the next line of that song?

I was invited into an advent calendar program for animal artists. The theme was basically anything quadrupedal enjoying anything wintery, as long as it's below PG. I chose a pack of Tanuki, because I love Tanuki and I've never really represented them in their 4-legged forms.

At the foot of a Shinto shrine, a small family of tanuki emerge to run and play and beat on their belly drums after dusk. Because tanuki find a way to have fun no matter what. (That one in the corner is drinking some spilled sake, btw.)

Many many hours in photoshop.