What started as a small doodle in 2011, before we got together, turned into a Christmas painting for Xyks over a year later. He loves his pho, and okami, and I love him!

I used this flickr photo as a close reference.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/livenature/7147080735/

Original doodle: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1629405/xykeratsu1.jpg

Ink and watercolor on cold press paper. This scanned terrible.