Sitting feline thumbnail and Ref (Patreon)

Just the set up for one of my current projects.  going to start with a thumbnail and a little color before blowing it up and working on something with more detail. 

First I am going to resize the current sketch, make it bigger and save it on another file. I am then going to work on this small thumbnail as a guide for color and lighting. I hope this will save me the head hurt that I always get when I am the coloring around the end and feeling that what I have is not what I expected. a small guide image should help me quickly see how much space it all takes up.

really going for that semi feral look here, I find all you need to do is beef up the hips and sholders and keep everything else the same. critiques welcome! I feel that this one might look a little strange, but what do you expect right?