Mostly I end up on practicing horses, foxes or cats but I still struggle a ot especially with porportions and hind legs. My goal is to master them till the end of this year.
Foxes are a lot of fun especially when they yawn. Even tho I still struggle with default poses I try to sketch more complex ones as well.
Here is a finished piece of my last unicorn dying, surrounded by skeletons of his fellow horses. I combined Shire looking horse with zebra pattern, which makes it look a bit prehistoric in my opinion and I made his mane in Wildebeest style. He was a strong and magnificent animal but without his horn he is parishing. This piece was a good practice because I really pushed myself to add all the details on horses anatomy.
Yesterday I did some pencil sketches of cats again and I really tried to capture their posture and how they curve. There really is something majestic about cats and there is something goodlike about them.
And as always I finished my day with a fast bedtime sketch od a random animal. I found nice photos of cute hyeena pups.
Those are really cool creature designs! I think you can always start of your concept from imagination and when they look good to you, you can start thinking and applying proper anatomy to them. Like that you don't get blocked thinking about anatomy when you're in the design phase.
But these look really good