That's Close Enough

Creature: Whoooops! Sorry, wrong house..."
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I don't know if any of my old watchers anymore remember Atla (and not remembering would be highly understandable), but here's - finally - my little kitty in a so-called proper artwork! 8) And hurrayyyy, he is redesigned so I have no use for his reference sheet anymore! 8))))) Though, the changes are after all not that big. Mostly I just bothered to study the anatomy of lions a bit more this time...

Anyhow, this started out as just a sketch since I just felt like sketching out Atla, altering his looks a bit. But eventually it got some linearts and colors to it and... Yeah. Not much more to say. The creature popping into to the pic is a member of species I sketched earlier this summer. Atla looking that angry obviously had to have a reason for it, and I thought I could as well use this new species here. Dunno, though, why he/she didn't just fly up there instead of climbing.
And never mind the background. I'm not sure what I was doing while painting the farthest rocks and they ended up looking really weird. Luckily the finishing touches with some layer styles made them look even a bit more decent. Didn't feel like painting them all over again either.

Now when I finally got my hands off this one I can concentrate on something quite likely less creative things to do...

Atla, unnamed species & art (c) me