Hey all! This is a piece that  jenkiwi had a commission of, so this is her artwork, I helped with the space suit, she did inks and flats, and I finished it off with shading. This is a prime example of how we work as art partners and friends. It is a very special thing in life when you can find somebody you can work with that you can find a good balance with, it makes life a heck of a lot more fun and crazy :) But as for picture description, she describes it the best:

A pair of Z pilots - dog-sized, flightless gryphons, created via biotechnology for the purpose of getting rid of pests. These little critters have a catlike body covered in fuzz, large owl-like eyes, no or vestigal wings, little pointy or round ears, a rather thick tail - more like a lizard's then a cat's - with a feather tuff on the end. Their beaks are short and curved and in some cases will totally vanish into the facial feathers when closed. They're more feral than not, and usually walk on all fours.

Their creators did not mean for them to be all that smart, and as a result they are rather childlike in nature - however, their reflexes are far superhuman, so they make prized pilots if one can train them. Said pilots are given a small, diamond-shaped implant on the brow between the eyes, and typically have feet not unlike an owl on all four legs, with five or six toes on each foot - three or four pointing forward, two backward.

The idea behind this commission was to show a Z Pilot with and without their flightsuit - something like a space suit with many connection ports and a bunch of cables and tubes. The suit pictured here was designed for an agile, nimble quadruped, with cargo pouches on the haunches where they are more readily accessible to the feral-minded. It also has ports along the shoulders where jetpacks or rocket boosters may be attached for personal independent flight (space or terrestrial), a remote access interface device (aka "power glove") built for use with the off hand, and a fully integrated communications headset with microphone/speakers and a holographic heads-up display built into the half-dome helmet.