the-small-print - wow so much good advice in one comment! seriously I really appreciate all the feedback and guidance, the image really helps to illustrate your points also…pure gold, I can’t thank you enough for your help.
I’ll work on implementing all your guidelines and update again soon
update below
New Update, starting to get the different values blocked in, still very rough. Also started a little bit on the fur, may scrap that and start over with a hair brush tho…
c&c welcome and appreciated
thanks phi1618, I haven’t had very much time to work on it lately, hopefully I will soon tho…
New update, blocking in some more stripes, starting some hair texture work, per some brushes provided by a colleague…c&c welcome
the neck doesnt really look right. i dont know if its bc its too long or if it looks too flat. maybe try adding the front leg bone/muscles. cheers mate
I agree with the above, I don’t think it’s that the neck is too long, but maybe the tiger doesn’t have enough musculature beneath it’s fur… I’m also not so convinced by the composition, maybe move it in to the right a bit more to take the anchor off the left side of the picture and be careful not to overlap the path in an awkward spot. cheers! 
DeathMetalDan & mrd33ds - thanks for the constructive comments, I’ll work on more muscular definition, whenever I get some spare time to work on this again :surprised
nice painting… you need some casting shadows to separate the foreground and the background and other component of the piece.
trying to work on getting some messy fur in there, will refine that later on, working on carving out muscles with some shadows, not quite sure if its working out yet… we’ll see I guess
c&c is welcome and appreciated as always
so after I posted the last update I saw something I really felt needed to be changed (the silly looking plant, whick led to adding the start of some roots) so, here it is! c&c welcome
I’ve had a little down time lately and have been using it to tweak and experiment with different brushes in my digital paint, please let me know what you guys think…also I’m including a empty bg image to give an idea of what its like without the fg image…c&c appreciated as always
New update mostly playing with the backlighting in the jungle,
have hardly touched the tiger in a while, need to get on that
c&c appreciated as always
been really busy, but finally getting a chance to show this guy a little love,
working on texture with custom brushes and various other techniques, more updates soon (hopefull) C&C welcome and appreciated as always
another new update, working on refining the look of the jungle, going for a smoother look on some of the trees, feedback? also working on the path a bit…c&c welcomed
My eyes keep going to the tree to the right of the cat head. It’s perhaps too white. Also it all looks blurry, are you giong to start sharpening it up with details soon?
@Neil - Interesting thought, I was sort of looking for a silhouette against the jungle, but perhaps that tree does stand out a bit too much, as for the blurryness, yes.but not that soon, I would if I had more free time to work on it. thanks for the crit! cheers
Edit working on the trees a bit per suggestions
