Mole Gardener · Wraparound Grip

SUBJECT
One original anthropomorphic mole gardener with a rounded snout, small eyes, a plain green apron, and broad mitten-like paws, standing while holding one small ochre bucket beside its body. The paw on image-right grips the top of the bucket's upright curved handle; the bucket hangs beneath that contact. The other paw rests at its side. Give the gardener a quietly pleased expression.

COMPOSITION
Use a full-body, three-quarter view on a pale cream background, with the mole slightly left of center and the bucket on image-right. Show the gripping paw, the handle opening, and the complete bucket clearly. Keep the bucket beside the leg with a visible background gap. Use a nearly eye-level viewpoint and generous margins.

STYLE GUIDE
1. Shape & line
Build the mole from rounded body masses and broad, simplified paws. At the image-right grip, draw the handle rising into the palm, disappearing behind two curled finger shapes, then reappearing on the other side; place the thumb across its front so the overlap visibly encloses the handle.

2. Color & light
Use warm gray fur, a muted green apron, and an ochre bucket against pale cream. Light from upper image-left, leaving gentle darker planes on image-right; add a small dark contact accent where the fingers cover the handle so the grip remains readable within the restrained palette.

3. Texture & material
Paint with opaque gouache patches and lightly broken brush edges. Suggest fur with a few short strokes along the outer cheeks and belly, keep the apron broadly matte, and give the painted metal bucket one broad soft highlight; keep texture sparse around the finger-handle overlaps.

4. Composition
Angle the gripping forearm outward toward image-right and suspend the bucket directly below the hand. Preserve a cream opening inside the curved handle and a separate cream gap between bucket and leg; ground the feet with a soft shallow shadow while keeping the grip unobstructed.

PRIORITY
Preserve the requested identity, count, action, composition and output settings. Apply the style rules within those constraints; a style reference must not replace the subject or layout. Within the style: Make the enclosing finger overlaps the clearest small detail.

AVOID
Avoid a handle drawn continuously across the fingers or a bucket that appears detached from the grip.

OUTPUT
Create one square image as an opaque gouache character illustration, with no lettering, labels, logos, or watermark.

SELF-CHECK
Check that the handle disappears behind the curled fingers and the bucket hangs visibly from that grip.