I am a finalist for the coyote children's book illustration position. The next step in the application is to provide a color version. The authors also asked me to make my coyotes more cartoonish, in the style of my cartoon sharks with utensils. This involved exaggerating shapes, smoothing out lines and changing the eyes.

Coyotes are not very excitingly colored. From my study of google images, some pups do have a brick reddish hue on their head, and I included that at the risk of making him look foxy, but I liked the touch of color.