More Tuesday Portrait Cuteposting/Random Creature Design, this time featuring a binturong-inspired creature.
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Unlike a lot of my random creature designs, where I just sorta doodle something and see what happens or with some vague idea in mind, I went into this one with the express intent of designing some sort of binturong creature after a friend of mine asked if I ever drew one--and upon looking binturongs up, I realized they are a great fit for my drawing style and aesthetics, basically being Feliformia's answer to the Red Panda in many ways.
Also, unlike most of my random creature designs, that I tend to leave on the back burner for a while as I think about what to do with them, I decided the basics of these guys while I was working on the portrait.
The species is called "Bonturi" and they are a member species of the Lightbearer Dominion, and their (as-yet-unnamed) homeworld is mostly tropical jungles and rainforests with some temperate rainforests further toward the poles, owing to the planet orbiting its sun a bit closer, on the inner boundary of the Goldilocks Zone.