Thanks everyone for taking a peek at him!
For the wings I had to look at some photographs of owls that I had taken a while ago and I could notice that when their wings were spread out the bars on the wings seemed to match up, but when the wings were together like the griffins, they didn’t match up that perfectly. So that’s where I got that from.
As for the look on the body I was using photos of lions and mountain lions to get a good idea of what kind of color I wanted. Some of the mountain lion pictures had almost like a dark red tint to them…I put that together with the paler look of the African lion and that’s what I came up with. It gives it sort of a rough look…I like the way it turned out.
My most wanted list: carnelian mouse wizard, copper patina frog wizard, autumn leaf poads, pumpkin spice kitties