God of the Prairie

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Hello, this is my entry for the God Contest. It's more of an excuse for me to try new techniques than anything but I think it went well =P

This is Leonius, the God of the Prairie. Let me tell you a little about his backstory: the god of nature, who could communicate with animals and plants, fell in love with a lioness. As we all know, when a daddy god and a mummy lion love each other very much, you get a weird cross of a lion and a human. Leonius has the ability to shapeshift into both human and lion, but his main responsibility as a god is to make sure the plains are in order and everyone's behaving. However, he's a pretty mischievous guy, and can be known to slack off, favouring fun over his job ;)

To get a little more into detail about how I made this, I usually just make a palette and stick to it to make the skin. However with this one, I used opacity with the shades to make it look smoother and more blended. I think it worked okay =P