Arrrr I DID IT. So many failed attempts... and then finally success on an idle weekend when I wasn't even trying. Not a fursona change as such (but I like it enough to consider doing something with it in future), but something I've wanted to do for a while - draw Kat Aclysm as a marsupial. However, NONE matched her well at all until I found the Thylacoleo carnifex, or Marsupial Lion.

Marsupial? Check.
Lion? Eh, it's about as felid as we're going to get in the marsupialia family.
Has vicious jaws and serious bite pressure? Check.
Stripes....? Eh. What the heck.
Sold on it!

There's so little information on this creature so it was really hard translating it into a proper character art. Thus, Thylcaoleo Katifex is 90% artist interpretation, 5% theft from existing marsupials, and 5% actual reference to a Thylacoleo carnifex. I am very content with this overall. It took awhile to come up with a colour-scheme that worked and in the end I chose traditional Aboriginal colours - ochre fur, desert-sand markings, pipe-clay for the 'white'.

May draw this as an anthro in the future, but that's a while off just yet. Too much to do right now.
~ K