Behold, that rarest of all creatures.
A genuine punk rock girl who's also a freelance hardware engineer, and a great friend. Now imagine that this person, who is very private when it comes to the whole Internet thing, emails you a photograph of themselves and asks you to anthropomorphize it for them to use as a profile pic.

burpingcheetah: So do you have any particular preference as to species?
fmudcmk: Heh, I guess I forgot to say before. Gosh, I never really thought about it. Um, could you do a
burpingcheetah: Yeah?
fmudcmk: Well, fire breathing unicorn?
burpingcheetah: Wow. Yeah, I think I can do that. Been awhile since I've tried anything equine.
fmudcmk: lol, pretty silly though right?
burpingcheetah: As a burping cheetah, I have no idea what this "silly" thing is you're talking about :)
fmudcmk: wait, what were those things from fina fantasy?
burpingcheetah: Which things?
fmudcmk: the helper things with wings, forget what they're called
burpingcheetah: chocobos?
fmudcmk: no, the little white ones with the wings and a glow ball on their heads.
burpingcheetah: You mean a moogle?
fmudcmk: YEAH!
burpingcheetah: You're in luck, I've drawn a few of those before.

Another first: I've never done "anime eyelids" before, obviously.
Yes, the hair, the shirt, and the smirk all are (approximately) really hers. I don't know how she gets away with that hair either.

I just realized I forgot to add the stitches holding the heart patch on. Dammit.

And again with the moogles.

All digital. Mouse drawing in Photoshop with a little bit of blur and noise here and there. I try to keep my use of "toy" filters to a minimum.