Nice, I totally saw Studio ghibli style before I even read your description. I really am digging this so far, one thing I could see with the silhouette that I feel you could push is, that in your 3/4 view it looks like the front legs are very spread apart from each other leaving a big negative space, maybe push the curves…
Spirit of The Forest And here's what I have done so far. I started out sketching in my notebook traditionally to find out some interesting proportions and silhouettes and from the I continued onto a sculpted blockout. And here I painted a little bit on top of it to get a better idea of what I would like from the final…