Dirty Fleabag

"Don't you just hate when stray cats scratch their fleas off right in front of your door?"

This character has now a name, by the way! Her name is Shadi, she's one of the main characters of my project with

About the picture, this is a totally new experiment I made only with color and without inking. I basically mixed white tempera color with watercolor to obtain a lot of different tonalities, and then I painted over a pencil sketch.  I made some anatomical mistakes because it's incredibly hard but I'm SO happy with the result!   It took me days to color it though...
I'd really like to hear your opinion, and if you have any suggestion or critique they are more than welcome ^^