so here it is, Aureus's official design. I don't really like this shading, and I don't know how I did it, but I don't remember how to gone from sketch to painterly lineless. I think a five hour drawing session is a good ease back into art after a dry spell, anyway. Thank you to everyone who watched my join.me while I worked on this. Having people there keeps me way more focused. Without you, I would have probably dropped this before the sketch was finished.

Aureus has a long red mane of thick, silky hair on his nape down to his tail, and can raise a portion of it along with his hackles when angered, frightened, stressed, etc. His vampiric bloodline comes from eastern Europe, so his fangs were referenced from a venomous snake endemic to the Balkans. His antler design comes from his father (a character I brought here very briefly), and since his species in his homeworld is sexually dimorphic in their colouring, he inherited few phenotypic traits (in regards to colour and pattern) from his mother. Since he's a vampire, I drew back the edges of his mouth unlike a regular red deer in order for him to be able to open his mouth wide enough to clamp his jaws around prey at least as big as he is. His jaw opens further, but I didn't want to draw it.
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