New Zodiac Series: Snake

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Well it's been a long time coming since I last did one of these D: I know I keep saying the tiger is going to be next, but I'm having issues posing that one in a non-cliched way...

Snakes are far, FAR more difficult to draw realistically than you would think, for an animal that has no limbs. Holy shit. I had a lot of fun with this one though, especially on the scales.

It's a Banded Wolf Snake (Dinodon Rufozonatum), for the record. A Leucistic one at that... meaning that it's white. Probably one of the cutest kinds of snakes I've ever seen, seriously :3 It's native to China. I decided to do a white one not out of laziness for doing the markings, but because there's a certain amount of Asian mythology surrounding white snakes as far as I know.