An Exhausted "Gopher" - Sun, 25 Mar, 2012 – K9 Unit

Seems like this squirrel's just way too tired. Perhaps she should go lie down for the evening.

While sitting around last week, I had the idea for what I thought would be a creative partial fursuit design — a gopher (i.e. furry convention volunteer) that was simply exhausted (or looked and acted that way). For bonus points, I figured I'd use an animal closely related to the gopher - the ground squirrel.

And so, here I've taken the design of a previous (but mostly unused) character I had created, Sylvia the squirrel, and adapted her into this ref sheet. Constant panting, droopy bloodshot eyes, generally dazed stature…

So, how well does it work? (And does it seem like a good fursuit idea?)