Looking at the Bengal Bunny, my first impressions would be as follows:

Using an medium-large airbrush brush set to 'color', lay down the orange fur pattern over most of the body. Then, with a smaller sized brush, do the stripes in a very dark brown (don't use black or too much of the hair indication gets lost).

Next, with a photo of a tiger's face handy for reference, repeat for the head in finer detail.

For the cheetah, you seem to have overlaid the fur pattern over the entire body and head at the same time, with a separate layer overlay. I would suggest doing the body and head separately, as a cheetah does have distinct facial markings that need separate attention.

I suppose if you are careful with the Image-Liquify, you could adapt a photo of a cheetah's head to the shape of the rabbit's head before dropping the layer onto it. And again, I would suggest using a 'color' merge in order to preserve the bunny's own fur-growth patterns.

Any one else with suggestions?

RosemaryR
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