I had this sitting in my hard drive at like...80% finished for a few years. I've been wanting to test some things with her and decided to use this as a good opportunity for some of it. This was a sketch commission I got from Doru a few years ago.

The muzzle coloring [as well as her legs] I changed a few times over the years and decided to keep it at this style. [I tried keeping it as nothing but the lighter red...but looked weird. Too use to seeing dark red there lol]

I always had SOMETHING around her eyes, but that also changed ALOT over the years. Started as some weird silver "tear" like marking to weird black designs.
Her previous design has too many different types of markings and didn't mix well. So...I thought why not keep everything to the gradient and speckle theme? So...I put some speckles under her eyes as well...and I really love it. First time I've actually loved any eye design for her lol.

I'm still completely unsure about her ears though. I really love how Doru drew them here, but most other things I don't really like her ears. I've been considering just doing away with them entirely...but I'm really torn on this...
Her tongue is also changing instead of being forked.

I mostly did this for a visual test for her upcoming reference commission.

Sketch was done by DoruDrutt
Check out her artwork on her dA: http://dorudrutt.deviantart.com/
Coloring done by me
Sakuryoko © me