If you wanted an example to show off how cat like an Absol is, here you go! The Absol Juggernaut Typhianna does a taunt-y cat stretch to show how limber she is despite her immense muscular frame~
This turned out extremely well. I’m very, very pleased with it. I played around with some techniques to make the feathers less tedious to work on but they still take quite a while to do.
Fun fact: the way I draw wings as secondary limbs like this is based on some artists I met in the first 1-2 years of me being an artist back in 2005 or so.
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Done with mechanical pencil on white card stock paper and colored digitally in Photoshop CS5.