He looks awesome dude! Radical work!

Thank you so much!

No problem dude! I'll have to commission you someday!

I look forward to it!

Good luck with your future projects!

Dude I love how you draw chunky guys so much! <3

Thank you!

Awesome work as always! Those eyes are amazing!

Thanks! It took a while to get that confident gaze.

AAAAH, this came out so well. Great stuff!

Thanks!

Handsome

Love how huge and handsome he looks especially how big and huggable his belly looks

That might be one of them there "perfect bodies." The coloring, lighting, all super, super good. That belly, just how "firm" it looks in shape and how it juts out...ugh that's yummy. Fantastic posing, too.

Haha, thank you so much for those kind words! I am glad to see people appreciating all the details.

It’s well drawn and the species is also great but I think once there’s one fat Black Leopard character then you really have done everything you can do with it, you can have all sorts of wolves with different colours, markings,clothing and other differences but to me all the chubby black leopards I’ve seen could have been the same one.

Kind of redundant, I mean black leopards as a whole work best as suits in my opinion that is to say slick secret agents or government types and all that because that’s kind of what you get. A sea of jet black.

I like what you’ve done, I like big cats in general but I really think the concept of black leopard characters used like this doesn’t really suit the strength of the species. :/

Thank you for the feedback!

I completely agree with you that drawing two large bellied panthers is a little redundant. The first time I painted a panther for the experimental dining series, I chose the species by complete random, and never took into account the strengths of each species. The only reason I drew another panther in such a quick succession was for a commission. I didn't have much of a say in what I was creating, as the commissioner picked the species, body type, and clothes. The only creative freedom I had was deciding the pose, expression, and how I chose to render it. However, I will definitely keep this in mind when working on more personal work. There is a sea of different species that I can draw, and I have only just begun!

I am extremely grateful for this critique and hope to hear more from you, as any feedback on my work helps me become a more interesting illustrator!

Wow, what you just said blew me away.

I mean not the “It’s just a commission part, I was just following orders”-Part, that was to be expected ;) I think it’s cool to hear feedback about feedback on here since it’s usually a pretty shallow one sided affair from what I’ve seen, though experiences may vary.

Of course assigning any human traits or roles to a whole particular animal species is just a silly man-made thing but in fiction usually they’re used with some kind of purpose.
Bagheera from the Jungle Book, both book and you know... Disney movie, have used the species in a way that kind of reflects what you’d see of Black Leopards in nature documentaries or similar nature thingies.

But with Furries it really is just a free for all isn’t it? I mean 8/10 times you’d most likely just get an idealization, so you’re less likely to get something that works of the animal and more so something designed to just make people go “CUUUUUTE” and variations of that or “Oh rawr, sexy”.

If what you want to do is primarily figuratively and literally pull a suit over yourself that makes a certain group of other people like you, more you are just less likely to get something deeper and brought on by more complex thinking because what’s the point of trying anything like that if you can just give it big eyes and even bigger thighs ( or even bigger endowment ) to get more likes. It’s the easy way out.

Pardon the pun but that’s the nature of the beast, really. Kinda sad but predictible in hindsight.

Thanks for reading.

That pose is perfect for showing off that gut. Excellent work man.

Thank you!

No problem. :3