Now I had laid down most of the linework and form of my piece, there was just a final amount of finishing off to do. I wanted to try different ways of creating the tiger's impressive coat and markings, so played around with a few ideas without looking at my source collage at first, to think about different ways I could aesthetically represent the intricacy of the natural forms, and explore the interplay between their functional purpose in the wild and our decorative human interpretation of the patterns.
I tried along the back leg of the animal to suggest wide bands of solid stripe, which made that part of the body feel claustrophobic yet also tangibly mapped like the forms like contour lines on a map, giving depth and life whilst also slightly unsettling the naturalism of the image. Around the shoulder and the head I followed the natural stripes from my source collage, and also used gradient tones to blend the stripe and give it a depth of real fur. 
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