Absolutely! The research for this was very fun lol, lots of elephant on pumpkin carnage

I've always thought it'd be interesting to look at the skulls of proboscideans over time to see where the comparatively huge ear muscles elephants use to flap thier ears first show up

Maybe! We're not certain when proboscideans evolved thier thin, floppy, flappable ears. Mastodon are distant from elephants, so it's possible they retained more normal ears. Cold environments also tend to go with smaller ears, like in mammoths (tho the places mastodon lived were not as cold or dry)

Cute recent commission! I've been enjoying messing around with this style of line, the storybook whimsy is very season appropriate.

If you're interested in commissioning some artwork like this please get in touch! A full color illustration like this runs about $200 usd

Somebody posted the photo this is a study of on a discord I'm in but I haven't been able to find the original context for it. If anyone knows I'd be interested!