Mackrel VS. the hedgehogs

this is an old one.
in the months following graduation back in ought three i was unemployed.
i spent my days on my girlfriend Cara's sister Katie's computer and taught myself
illustrator (and looked for a job shit i'm not a dead beat); this was for a children's book project for the United way. Not this image, my learning illustrator, but when i learned how to use it i made this image.
This is the real world about to devour me.