After a long and labour intensive Illustrator session..

Here are all four completed vector animals:
and here they are standing in their mandala formation*:

* note that I wanted to keep the sizes of the animals equal, but also to have a sense of size relative to each other, so I struck a balance between the two. I also placed the owl a bit higher than the fox, because the owl would be up in the tree and the fox on the ground.
I also tried to vary the brown hue, to make each animal a bit different and a bit more of an individual. So the fox is a bit more orange/red than the deer and the bear is a bit greeny and the owl a bit more pink.

Deery Me

Just a quick post to share this deer image I recreated using illustrator. It is made completely of pen tool drawn vector shapes of varying colour and tone to emulate the markings of the deer.

I'm thinking this will be placed in one of the four animal 'entrances' of the mandala.

What do you think?