I /really/ love that pic of Esk you did, in fact, I think if you did more pieces like that you'd be in, but that's just me going by predetermined standards when I worked over at Yerf, so I couldn't speak officially. I'm sure they haven't forgotten you, from what I hear there's a big backlog and a lot of the volunteers well....life happened XD
Admittedly your icons, I'm not too crazy about. On the lion the eyes are too high up on the head and kind of "float" on top of the face instead of looking like they're embedded within the skull, there's no real depth there. And the fox, the head is very bulbous which looks like it has more of a human braincase but with everything else being feral. I'm not sure if that's the look you were going for but shortening the forehead would be a good start on that one :)
Sorry if I don't help much! Just figured I'd put in my 2 cents.
