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If I lived there - that's what I'd be painting, rather than tigers! However - each to their own.
I think the point here is that your tiger IS a work in progress, it could still go in several directions, and while I agree with softening the edges and not showing every strand, which usually gets problematic because we start refining a picture too soon, that's rather easier to do in some media than in others; acrylic lends itself to a more precise, sharp approach - but that's not invariable, and you can still loosen up even an acrylic that's started to get a bit tight.
I think Denise's idea is well worth pursuing - have a go at your paintings in watercolour first: you can get over-precise with watercolour, but if you do - normally you realize that it's not going to work, which can be quite a valuable discovery. I agree with Alan about the background by the way - but you'll probably adjust that as the tiger takes greater shape? Somewhere, I have a painting - not an original, sadly - by Charles Tunnicliffe, of a tiger - can't find it online; it's one he did for the Brooke Bond tea cards which those of my generation used to collect. We can't all be Tunnicliffe, but I'll post it if I can find it, for comparison purposes.
