----- While I started with the intent of just being a sort of one-off doodle to satisfy a vague creative itch, I started to think that it might actually be kinda fun to have an old desert-dwelling hippie coyote character. I can see him being into UFOs and conspiracies and all that stuff, maybe even having had some experiences with visits from extraterrestrials (since numerous different worlds and races, along with interstellar travel, are canon within my universe), and might even be a good source of wisdom (or expository dialogue about some alien activity or secret military program) when he's not tripping on the peyote.
Portraits like this are something I legitimately enjoy doing, and actually make up a fair percentage of my art in later years, when I realized I needed to go back to drawing for ME and not just to keep art galleries active with daily uploads and pandering to the handful of watchers I had.