It took me three days to figure out what WIP meant; coming from a family of librarians and an ex-publisher, my first thought was "Works In Print" which just didn't make sense... :) Looks like a good start on the lion, but I'd suggest smudging the fur to reduce the number of strands, and creating a detailed bump map for the fur. Either that or creating a transparancy map for the whole body, and "layering" the lion, with a nearly transparent one 1-3% larger than the opaque one...