A cream-colored echidna faces forward with its distinctive spiky quills fanned upward in shades of golden brown and tan, against a soft sage green background. The illustration employs a geometric, modernist approach with clean lines and flat color fields, capturing the animal's round body and alert expression with minimal but expressive detail. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.