A red squirrel sits upright with a plump, rounded body rendered in warm tan and cream tones, wearing a chartreuse-patterned jacket across its shoulders. Its bushy golden-orange tail curves gracefully beside it, while the creature gazes forward with a gentle, characterful expression against a soft beige ground, creating a whimsical illustration with clean, geometric shapes and a storybook quality. 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.