Sketch - Gene Redesign Study

Still working on some tweaks for Gene’s look, and this is one of the latest ideas I've had.

Still trying to edit his muzzle and nose a bit to give it a different shape or appearance and...if I’m honest, I dunno if I’m making any headway or not. I mean...honestly some of the sketches I do like, but I dunno if I’m making any headway.

I’ve been giving Gene a lot of thought and I think I’m going to make some changes are far as his hybrid nature goes: he is always going to be a hybrid creature, it’s just I think I need to change what his mixture is.  In the beginning he was always meant to have dragon and hedgehog in him, but the hedgehog aspects were never shown through and I’ve said that they were meant to show more when he goes into his demon form, but I’ve never been able to get a design for that form.So, finally, I think I’m going to remove the hedgehog side of him completely. I know that I want to have dragon and maybe some wolf in him (snow dragon and winter wolf), but I feel that there should be something else as well. I had thought about maybe something like foo dog/guardian lion, but I’m not completely sold on he idea.