Wow, the new submission system is nice.

Anyway, this took 694 minutes. Which equals...11.56 hours. This was tough!

Reference: [link]

I loved this cat right away, and wanted to wait b/c it's fur looked so complicated. The way it was photographed gave the fur a blueish tint that I didn't feel like emulating, so I stuck with greys and tried to get the other colors fairly close. As for anatomy issues, the fur wasn't exact, and the head is too large/wide, but it couldn't really be helped.

After saving it so many times (I can't sit there for 3 hours easily, nevermind 11...), the compression was eh, you can see the white specs on it's face. Some of the black started turning green; I fixed some but it's really widespread. The eyes got dark, but that is just fine with me since it really turned into a different cat.

I love how the top of the lantern (last thing I did) looks real. I didn't know I could do that.

So whatever, I'm tired. This was mostly the result of typical teenage depression/apathy/stress anyway, but it was fun at certain parts.