Kind words, thank you! I was trying something new with the inking here and I think it paid off

Wikimedia Commons can be a great resource, depending on what you're after. It can be annoying to navigate but there's a lot there and things are filed into category pages

sketchbook! mechanical pencil + pen of choice. I'm not anti-tablet but I'm definitely afraid of dropping money on one and hating it

I'm not that big, the mane adds a few hundred pounds

pretty sure I was a lion before you actually

there's definitely something satisfying about doing it all on paper, I'm glad people seem to like the result

it's all a game of finding optimal squish