Copernicus Sketches

So thanks to the artistic side-effects known as absentmindedness and being a gigantic dingus, I thought that I had uploaded this character MONTHS ago when it turns out, it had been left in my folders to rot. After being reminded of this concept's existence and immediately realizing my mistake, I quickly tossed this montage together to try and make up for my error.
Lo and behold, here is Copernicus! He's a new character I'm quite fond on, and while I'm not too sure on a backstory yet, I rather like his design. I opted for something more streamlined than the typical winged manticore, but I think it still screams "mythical cat-human arachnid abomination" quite nicely.

The graph paper idea was totally ganked from a few other cool artists, because I will do anything to avoid drawing backgrounds (haha not really, the .pngs of the sketches were actually so messy that I couldn't use any of my normal textures!).