that detail is outstanding - excellent colouring work. I am most impressed - and I adore tigers!

Nice work, Bhayric! ROWR.

fascinatingly well done

Nice, could use some sharping/finer? details, but excellent none the less.

Well, I see what you mean and I probably could sharpen and improve some parts. Actually, I had to blur some others because they were attracting too much attention and unbalanced the picture...

Man, that's not easy. The most important is that I like it this way, even if it's imperfect. Or so I think... :)

I seems you use point to do the smudge/fur. Have you tried using a rake,flat,multi-point brushes?

Some of them, yes. Some parts were pre-worked this way, althougth some problems quickly arose.
Two reasons, and one meaning: soft fur.

The first reason is that the fur pattern went less chaotic that I wanted to: although every fur pattern has a direction, each hair has a slight variation of direction on its own.
The second reason is that I wanted most of the hair brands to curve, event if its a bit. That's something a flat brush can't follow since some parts of the hair would be artificially inflated by the brush width...

I agree that flat brushes are especially great to do some short/hard fur (a boar's hide would just be great with that). But I am less conviced that they would fit for soft ones.
In this case, I preferred to sacrifice a bit detail in order to gain more overall realism, in softness matter, that is...

Well, at last that was my opinion... :)

Awesome tiger portrait. Cool stuff and cool gallery!

Such a beautiful face. Makes me want to walk right up and stroke that fur, while planting a nice big one on his muzzle

You can try... if the vore prey thing is your kink. Rakshassas are especially dangerous, you know.

Ah, a challenge from a fellow predator. Here kitty kitty kitty

One of these beautiful nightmares you can encounter as DnD roleplayer. These demonlike kitties love suffering from weak mortals , and I love them. Very good compo. :)

Yep. They have always had something more than the average monster.
Like style, for starters...

they kill you with so many elegance, we can nearly forgive their arrogance.

This is lovely...although I am not too partial to digital art, since I can't do it for a crap. :D :D :D

great work, very nice detail :)

Thank you! I was pretty happy at that time because it was the result of my first experiment with GIMP (I was obnoxious to half of the possibilities then)... but when I see your own gallery, I know I still have a long, long, way to go!