Red Panda - Ohira

Yes, I finally made an animal character.

When I made the new file on my comptuer I was thinking about what I would name a red panda and I thought "Ohira" but didn't really like it so thought it would be a temporary name, but it ended up sticking... now I can't imagine what else I would call her.... anyways... now to explain.

Ohira:
Ohira is a red panda, otherwise known as the fire fox.
Here are some pictures of red panda in case you would ike to see how they look in rl:
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yeh.... adorable.
Anyways, when I thought of the name fire fox I sorta remembered the Inari shrine and the albino kitsune that he used as messengers. Thus, Ohira became a spiritual messenger. Hence the scroll sitting next to her butt. ^^ Since Ohira is a spirit she's slightly see-through. Ohira delivers messages via scrolls that she carries around with her. They don't always have to be big, fat scrolls like the one I drew, they can be small and skinny as well. Ya know.. like small and skinny to fit in her mouth. She needs the scrolls because she doesn't like to speak.
Since Ohira is a spirit kinda like a kitsune, she can change her form a little bit, not like change into other things like kitsune do, but she can look more ghostly, or more solid, or whatever she needs. Ohira's magic is fire of course, fire fox... orange and black fire to be precise. yush...

Markings:
On the right you can see a birds-eye view of the markings on Ohira's back. They're bright orange and they glow. So if she was in a dark place she'd be really easy to find cuz of the glowly markings. There's only one specific marking and you can see the shape of that on the left. the other markings are mirrored, the same on both sides of her.
Her claws are white.... yeh...

Accessories:
She has bandages half up her right fore-leg and all the way up her left fore-leg. The bandages have a sort of eerie metallic look to them, but of course they're not metalic, cuz then how would she move. -.- they're regular fabric but they shine like metal. She has a chain around her neck that is kinda glass-like in appearace (In case you were wondering I really didn't make any of this come across very well in the picture -.- ) and there are little spots randomly on the chain-links that glow. They can move around and there can be as few or as many of those little glowy things in the chain as you want....
Her earrings and her eyes have the same eerie orange glow to them. Both the earrings and her eyes are black, and then with the orange glow towards the bottom.

Fur:
Her back and stuff is red-ish brown with the orange glowy markings in them, the red-ish brown color fades a bit as it goes towards her head, as you can see. To get this effect you can use gradient, if you don't know how to do that then it's okay, just make her fur solid of the color I put on the ref sheet.
The black on her fur also fades a bit, but not too much, doon't worry about fading the black unless you really want to be thurough.

Er... I think that's about it....

as for the music I listened to while I drew her, here it is, there are no words to it:
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(to listen to it you'll have to add the ").mp3" that comes after the end of the link to the url)
don't steal it though. >.< I found that on someone else's site so you could hear it. Not my sight. If you want the music, buy it.
The song is called
"The Frail" by Nine Inch Nails
so yeh.... don't steal and such...

w00t

Ohira (c) me