Lynxie the Halfbreed

Second attempt at Lynxil.  Done yesterday on some new paper I got and just had to try out.
Lynxil's feathers are actually a dark brown/ebony color, but I declined to shade this because of a combination of laziness and wanting to leave well-enough alone.
(NOTE: This is not quite the design I settled on.  His hind feet are feathered/furred like the rest of his hind legs, and his forefeet have slightly longer toes, and more thumb-like dew claws.  His tail is more feline than that, and may or may not have a small, compact "spade" of flight feathers at it's tip. He also has no horn)


Anymawho... I  fail at feet.    I fail.  Now that that's out of my system... I'm uncertain how I feel about how the legs came out, and the head, and the proportions.  I don't know if the legs are a good length  Even though it's just a concept, I'd be very appreciative of any input about the build and proportions.  Even though he needs to have a thinner, lither build, I would rather make him just a teensie bit beefier than this... but I'm not really sure.

I wanted his feet to be more like feline paws, at least on the front, but with slightly (ever-so-very-very-slightly) longer toes/fingers/digits, but I kind of failed.  I think Imma make the hind feet be paws and the forefeet be more dragonlike... but just a little, as the whole point was so that I could give him retractable claws.  I may do away with the horn.  I may scrap a lot of this design... I rather liked the head from "Lynxil is Unamused" better... but I wanted something more dragonlike and less feline, since he has gryphon blood, not cat blood.  I do, however want his build to be vaguely tiger-like, as I did a bit of looking about and found tigers to be beefier and more powerful looking than any other large cat... which is the sort of build I like to imagine for the gryphons of this canon.
I'm having quite a bit of fun making this up, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Lynxil is, to put it as blunt and brief as I can... The descendent of a line of dragon-gryphon halfbreeds.
The line started with royalty of two countries, a minor prince from the country of Gyredell (gryphons) and a princess (the King's sister) from the country of Drakil (dragons). When it was discovered that the king's sister had fallen gravid (and her having no mate... tsk, tsk, tsk) the gryphon prince came forward and admitted to the affair. Well, both countries were riled up over the whole scandal, obviously, but neither of the rulers were willing to risk war, so they came to an agreement. The offending parties and their illegitimate offspring would be sent into exile in the human realms (with which tentative relations were just opening up again, after centuries of separation) and, as the decree stated, "Let befall them there whatever God deems just." The exiles combined their two surnames, Salnidaan and Dunventi, into Salventi and took that as the name of their house. They had twins, a boy and a girl. As the fairy realms weren't (and aren't) yet known to the human public, they had to use rune spells to disguise themselves as humans... and they were the only ones of non-human-but-sentient type there (until the inter-realm syndicates got going).  So, six inbred generations later comes Lynxil "Lynxie" or "Lynx" Salventi, who goes by the alias "Aaron."
He has been raised by an inter-realm crime syndicate known as the Jeldack Syndicate, and so he has street-smarts and, of course, an automatic handgun . He, like the rest of his line before him, lives in the slummier part of a major human city (nondescript at the moment), where it is fairly easy for someone of his particular "afflictions" to stay out of the public (and government) eye. He's reasonably well educated, and halfway decent as far as guys go (he tries to be, at least) but lives alone. He prefers the dark to the buzzing lights.
Life is relatively simple for Lynxie, if not dangerous and depressing, until someone knocks on his door waaay too late in the night to be out in the slums... especially when that someone is a she. Everything changes then. His relatively stable life is upended and uprooted, only to be replanted in a place already crumbling and about to fall apart.


HB and 2B 0.7mm mechanical pencils on Canson "Fanboy" Illustration paper (It erases and blends so... beautifully! )

Art, Character, Concept, Story, etc. (C) Cody Hilson.
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