I thought of this character the other day. Her face is a kitsune mask. She's not a fox lady, it's just that her face is the mask; she emotes with it and whatnot. Kinda neat eh?
I'm also experimenting with skipping a step in my drawing process. Normally I do a really clean pencil pass over my sketches, then ink the final, but I'm noticing my pencils are often clean enough to get away with.