Edit: Sterling and I were together for six years, but are no longer together and have lost touch. Sterling is not to be confused with my fiancé  atrayu. Coincidentally, the only two boyfriends I've ever had in my life both had squirrel fursonas.

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This is a tender little moment between Summer the echidna and her red squirrel beau, Sterling (my former boyfriend’s character). Their relationship was sorta old-fashioned, sorta weird, and deeply rooted in friendship.
This was originally intended as a Valentine’s Day picture, but now it’s more of a summertime-themed picture.

It was my first serious try at drawing Sterling, my second serious try at drawing Summer’s new design, and my first serious try at drawing the two together. I also experimented with some texturing effects on their fur and hair. Hollyann’s noise fur tutorial was helpful on Sterling.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/468390/

The background really wasn’t planned out, and I just threw it together (if you can’t tell). Originally there were supposed to be mountain silhouettes in the background with yellow lights from distant houses. It didn’t look right, so the mountains morphed into tall grass and the lights morphed into lightning bugs (which don’t actually live in our home state as far as I know).