This was very challenging illustration I created once and completely redesigned. The trickiest part was to multiply original stripes tiger has in upper part of his fur beard by doing so form a perfect cicle with it, in paticular circling from the top half to the bottom of beard extension but to direct lines as a starting point from tiger eyes in shape like letter " S " on both sides of the face to flip out below the nose and turn back up towards other stripes that originally tiger has on the sides of his head and then smoothly turn around to the corners of the eyes and then back again curl to the eyes.
If you look up closely, it is almost one line shape which i multiplicated obviously manually and draw supportive lines anywhere around the face to emphasize this effect.
Tiger forhead has the higest density of black stripes so I designed some of them to some extent also towards the eyes and with it's natural flow which I created precisely to match the directions around eyes.
