This tiger was made for a book on predators which never saw the light of day. The design was based on an old painting which showed a tiger flowing sinuously down a vertical canvas. This pose enabled the image to be used in various formats suitable for the book cover and a double-page spread inside. You could spend weeks hanging around in a tree waiting for a tiger to come by, in order to get the perfect reference shot. I didn't bother.
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