I've been sort of working on the piece I've been trying to finish for a while now. I keep getting stuck on trying to develop a style for drawing that's my perfect balance between realism and non-realism (I don't care enough to check the proper term ). I can't seem to come up with anything that I haven't done the past two times I've drawn him, unfortunately...in a funk I decided to try and draw another character of mine in a human-version. Didn't get too far with that because I got side-tracked on deciding to try and draw a child. They're both just facial features so far because I didn't work much on them (it was late and I was tired).

Since that I've been stuck on trying to figure out how a character who essentially has fur can have visible tattoos. I tried figuring that as trivial and pushing it aside but it keeps bugging me so I'm working on figuring that out and hoping that just maybe it would help with the drawing. Current idea is having them have short and thin hair over their entire bodies minus the hair on their heads and whatnot. They'd have more hair than hairless species, but not so much that all that would be logically visible would be their natural skin patterns. I'm just not entirely sure how satisfied I am with that. It's growing on me more and more and as of yet is all that I really have without making them like humans in that respect.

At Wal-Mart a character idea suddenly clicked in my head upon seeing boxes for eye patches. Just recently a number of new ideas to go along with that came into my head all at once. He's not a pirate, but he might end up being a bartender. He'd probably be more a "supporting role" of sorts. I'm thinking he plays a lot of poker (for money, of course), smokes cigars, and occasionally intervenes in bar fights when he sees fit (i.e. when they happen). Odds are his eye patch would be a result from a bar fight gone wrong -- maybe taking a pool stick to the eye or something. I don't know. There's still a lot of work to be put into him.