And finished!

After about 1500 hours of work on this drawing, I finally finished it! I haven't quite put the whiskers to bed yet, but I'll get onto those in due course, probably with the help of an erasing stencil although the tip @Ann Esther Sprizzo kindly shared with me certainly works as well

I started the drawing about 2 and a half years ago and almost gave it up about 4 times. I'm glad its done now . anyways, thanks for all the tips and nice comments
Not sure what I'll do next, I have that Hirola to finish and a few other sketches are also on the to do list.

1500 hours??? WOW! I usually work 2-3 hours on my drawings. After this time it isn't worth work. Your patience is amazing!

That's what I call AMAZING work! Congrats!

@HungarianBison Me too, me too, this is the only drawing I've really spent more than ~30 hours on a drawing.

@SivatheriumGuy Thanks! Took a while, so I'm pleased with it, even though I have gotten frustrated that work was so slow multiple times

Came out very nicely. I particularly like the highlights in the eyes.

@Arizona Docent
Yes, I always spend a while on the eyes and don't always get them right. I normally start with them because I don't want to have to do the whole drawing and then mess up the eyes, it makes no sense. They are quite unforgiving because for the light reflections in them you need to have a totally blank sheet of paper so it obviously doesn't work if you've only managed to half-erase a pitch-black pupil right where the light reflection needs to go
Thanks for your suggestions

This is exceptional. If you don't already do commissions, you should.

@Zoofan15 I have done a few commissions but mostly for teachers. I do cards for my friends and people leaving the school in my house every year so that takes up a lot of time. School is pretty demanding because we have a good 3-4 hours of homework and an 8-9 hour long school day. However in the holidays I could, it's just no-one wants any. I've done one or two things for my grandparents. I might post an image of one of them later today.

@amur leopard I forgot how long a day at an English school was. I left at the age of nine, but got told every year after by family and friends I didn’t know how lucky I was to go to school in New Zealand. Cool, I look forward to seeing them if you get chance to post.

@Zoofan15
I've posted one of them here: Animals resting on an apple tree in autumn - ZooChat