Black and white flash sheet of pencil sketches of leaping hares above a bold ink line drawing of a running hare, with no tattoo placement shown.

Running hare sketches and ink study

Black and grey · Flash

The sheet has several small pencil studies of hares in different poses, including leaping, sitting and crouching. Below them, a lighter pencil drawing and a bolder ink outline show a single hare running with its legs stretched forward and back. The linework is loose and sketchy in the pencil studies and more confident and continuous in the ink version, with no colour or shading beyond simple outline.

Hare Sketch Animal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The March wind had got into the thatch again, and Maud Pellow swore at it from the doorstep while the hens scattered past her boots. Her brother Tam had gone out before light to check the snares along the far hedge, and she had not heard him come back. Somewhere past the stile a hare was running the field edge, ears laid flat, its long legs reaching out and folding back as if the ground were only a rumour it had decided to ignore.

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She followed it without meaning to. Mud took her stockings to the knee and the cold got under her shawl, but the hare kept just ahead, always one bound beyond the place she could catch it. At the old gate it stopped dead, sat up on its haunches and looked at her with the flat patience of something that knew the field better than any farmer ever had. Then it dropped and was gone into the furrows, leaving only the print of its long back feet pressed deep in the wet clay.

Tam was sitting on the wall at the bottom of the lane when she came down, whittling a stick and whistling through his teeth. He had found the nearest snare empty and the wire cut clean, and he was not troubled by it. Hares, he said, went where they liked, and so did the men who hunted them, and the field had no use for either of them keeping count.

Maud looked back up the slope at the bare hedges and the pale sky, and thought about how fast a thing could leave a place it had no reason to stay. She put her hand on the wall beside him and said nothing, and the wind took the thatch again.