Animal Anatomy Creature Update

Here is a TONNN of my progress on my creature design for my animal anatomy class at school. So far I'm really happy with this design and as you can see I'm also doing an illustration with my creature. The creature is a combination of a tapir, a giraffe, and an leopard. I'm in the final stages now for this and I will update more when I'm done :).

P.S. Some of my teacher's sketches are on here. Some of the really good anatomy sketches on the side aren't mine. The final pose drawing is drawn on by him as well.

These are basicly the final images for the design of my creature. I still have to add some things and darken some lines, but overall this is what the creature is going to look like. Do note that the patterns on the creature are not yet added yet. Also I don't know why his eye scanned in so dark.

This is some of the first stages of my design after I did a whole bunch of silhouettes of the creature. The first drawing is the stage right after the silhouette. This was an experiment with this kind of process and I found out that that I like going over the silhouette with some structure, which I did the creature design in the last post, but not this one :(. Do note that this only SOME of my process and studies. Not ALL of my process.

Here is the silhouettes with some very rough color and value studies of the illustration I am doing with the creature.

Here is some of my process of the final illustration. This is when I was working on the pose, which as you can see I based off of a leopard running.

Enjoy and please critique :). I'm willing to change some things of the creature in the future if I need :). I love this guy and will progress on his design till it has the full impact I want it to have.