Animals with Verbs! Deer with ‘Chop’.
A chef would have been fun too, chopping up salad greens or something. But I went with the martial arts angle.
I like ones that challenge me. This is not an easy pose. Even for a deer. It seems like it should be cool, but it’s really awkward to figure out what all the limbs are doing at the moment of that strike. So here we go.
Ki-Yaa!
Original sketch (birds were added later, for a bit more interest):