Keesh Variations

March 23.

I cheated on the lineart, but I was just going for the patterns anyway.

Cave Keesh
Higher level of hearing. Shorter range of smell. More agile, less endurance.
Fur is slick to keep cave drips from affecting them so much. Paws are smaller.
Pattern on fur is to hide movement in the cave's darkness.

Desert Keesh
Hearing on lower wave-lengths. Longer range of smell. Agile and high endurance.
Fur is coarser to block sand grains from irritating the skin. Paws are larger to keep from sliding down the sand.
Pattern is for camoflauge among the dunes and desert rock-formations.

Forest Keesh
Hearing is wide-ranged. Rounded range of smell. Agile and high endurence.
Fur is long, but thinner than the other variations.
Paws are average-sized for navigating through the trees.
Pattern is especially designed to stalk through the jagged shadows of grasses and ground-leaves in the front and the dappled shadows of trees on the back half.

Arctic Keesh
Hearing picks up lower-frequency sound waves. Smell is long-range. Less agile and very high endurance.
Fur is long and thick for insulation.
Paws are large to keep from sinking into the snow.
Pattern is spotted to camoflauge with the dimples in the snow.

Keesh and its variations (c) me