I present to you my new/revised fursona, Res, the Green Lynx.

Res is a kind and friendly Lynx. Enigmatic, he’s always been somewhat of a loner, but he really does enjoy good companionship. He likes music, good food and adventures. He’s fond of the woods he lives in. In a nod to his ancient Zafara ancestry, he’s not prone to violence, but would put up a good fight if provoked.


This was a real challenge, as I was so used to drawing one basic character style that I had been doing since I started. Some of my early faces were hardly feline at all, and I had to keep breaking old style habits. I looked at a lot of references, and went back and forth between different hands/paws, feet/paws, and contemplated how would I do the legs.. The legs themselves were a challenge since I had never tried digigrade-style legs before. I considered different colors or markings. In the end, this is what I really felt like I would like to be, what my fursona that represents me should be.

I like long tails, so while he’s a Lynx, he’s a rare long-tailed Lynx. (Well, rare GREEN long-tailed Lynx..) I’ve always felt comfortable with the green/gold/brown color combination, and green is my favorite color.

I owe a debt of gratitude to my friend =NINKOjIN for all the support, help and inspiration during this project. See the great cellshading on the left character? I wanted to do one ref soft shaded, and one cellshaded, but my attempts with the latter kept ending in failure. I asked Val for a little example on the drawing how she would shade it, and she spent a whole night on it…She said to feel free to use any parts of it I could, but I couldn’t improve on any of it, so that’s all her cellshading. The clothes are especially nice – I’ve always had a problem making them look more than something that was just painted on. It’s amazing how just a few highlighted wrinkles can give clothes such depth. The cellshading help was a good experience, being able to compare how I pictured the shading in my attempts, and how she finally did it on a character I drew. I learned a lot, and will come back to study it more next time I cellshade myself.