OK here is the second image of the wolf, I have used very little tools to get this far, I mainly used the merque tool (m) (circular), to cut/past and shape just like french curves, and the liquify filter to distort some of the lines in the ears, the most valuable filter I have ever used is the liquifye filter, this is probably one of the most underused filters in photoshop. the colour so far is just the normal fill tool (G) tool, the hair was achived by using the smudge tool (r) strength 70-90 brush size 3, simply drag the colour in the direction you want the hair to flow, but to get realistic hair, be prepared for some serious smudging :O), the hair you see before you isn`t that realistic, but for a cartoon it is just about acceptable, there was no pencil sketches for this one, I whent stright into photoshop and created stright from my own weired tormented mind, this is not yet finished, alot more work is required before I will be happy with the end result, I will post the next stage tomorrow, not every way is the right way, do it your way, your own style will shine through, till next we meet all the best from Keith (Falconian).