Some colorwork for a friend of mine, Nanaki Freki, who didn't have any character art. He likes  TaniDaReal's character schnolf, and he plays a wolf/tiger hybrid, all big and lumbery and pouncing things in stripeyness.

Tani has several tutorials http://tanidareal.deviantart.com/gallery/8057179 up on coloring and lineart, as well as the basic lineart for this image, available for free use for coloring. It's well worth checking out, she has some rather nice photoshop tips (applicable also in GIMP). This coloring and the modification of the tail are with permission. ;)

.. I had to redo this one three times. Seriously. O_O I colored it once all the way through, saved it, then lost my source file to cleaning up my win7 desktop (damn thing doesn't show the file extentions). Then the second version.. well, I don't remember what happened.. but I can tell you, things are much speedier the more often you do a picture. x.x