This is my first ever large-scale work done with a digital medium, and it look forever XP I'll cook up a little story to go with it...maybe...but for now I think this will do. This is a "realistic" version of Mira, a cheetah character belonging to sirdubdub.

I created the design for this character http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5528954 for sirdubdub's comic, Legend of the Kha, but I decided to recreate her realistically in order to learn how to use Photoshop (and because it sounded like a good idea at the time). This is the first ever project I've done digitally, so be kind in your judgements. I've only used Ps within the last year, and in case you are wondering, there is absolutly NO tracing involved here, just a ton of collected ref photos and lots of study.
I do not have a tablet either, this was all done with the little track pad on my Macbook pro, eat your heart out tablet junkies!

If you want me transform your character / fursona to look more realistic let me know if you're interested, if I get enough enthusiasm I'll open up commissions of this sort!

enjoy!