Finally finished Gene's new ref! Tried to keep things simpler both in their actual design as well as the sheet itself.
Btw if you want a summary of those design changes, because there's a lot of subtle ones, without having to look up Gene's old art:
- Body is stockier now, less bottom heavy.
- Head shape has been simplified.
- Snout is slightly shorter.
- Hair fluff is fluffier.
- Tail is now crescent moon shaped instead of a tube
- Dewlap now only overlaps part of collar (usually in front only). Makes it easier to understand the silhouette.
- Glasses are small and sit atop the snout in a cartoonish manner
- skin folds around hands have less folds, make to look like toon gloves.
- Fur patterns are less complex, back pattern made into a spot instead of attach to the rest of the form.
- Mouth now has a small area for the lip to actually rest on? Not sure how to word that one.
- Eyes and teeth now has their own dedicated palette color instead of are like purple like the fur.
- Collar no longer has little stars on it (it was an easily missed detail tbh)
Hopefully that's all of it!