I thought I’d use this post to thank my girlfriend Zoe for volunteering to do the painting.
It’s probably better that she does it because she’s much more of a perfectionist so I know that the lion will come out much better than anything I could have produced.
My little contribution was to sketch on the lion all the patterns and to explain to her what needs to be painted what colours and to orientate her to the various screenshots I have taken. My other little contribution was to paint the ears so I can say that at least I painted a part of the lion myself =D
Check it out
This was my contribution with the painting. I suspect Zoe will repaint it. She thinks I did a rushed job and my lines aren’t clean enough. 
And now back to Zoe’s painting
The left and right eyes are different. She was experimenting with shading and blends
Zoe thought it would be cool to have an aqua nose. 
I got her to change it back to green. 
Keep your eyes peeled for more to come
wakeuplion 
I like the lion’s left eye with the shading!
Love the old-school look of the lion you’re (well, your girlfriend actually…) replicating! Can’t wait to see more pics of the progress. I agree with Linda–the shading gives the eye a lot more dimension and depth, makes it look less like a target or a hypno-wheel in my opinion.