HOLY FRAKING SHET! This took so many hours!!! It looks kinda nice now, but just imagine what it will look like in a month when I finish coloring every scale separately and remove the lines...

This is the head of my fursona... What were the chances that the first drawing of my fursona would be the one image I go all out on to produce ultra fine detail? Probably 1,000,000,000 to 1...

I plan on coloring his little scales black, which will take some shading experimentation to get them just right, and I'm gonna color his other larger scales a bright glowing neon orange.

Lol, I just spent the last five minutes trying to think of a word that rhymes with orange. iFail.

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After some ultra simple sampling and area determination techniques, I have determined the this image contains approximately 11,000 scales. If you want to actually count them for me, you are welcome to(I recommend counting the scales to go on your ultra urgent to do list.)