Kangaskhan is a Pokemon that resembles a giant kangaroo you might see in kaiju movies, and its Japanese name is "Garura". There was also a monster from Digimon Adventure known as "Garuramon", only that monster resembled a giant wolf. I figured that some kind of wolf-kangaroo hybrid could probably be a cool-looking monster, and I got to drawing this.
Although this monster does mainly resemble a wolf of some kind, I wanted to emphasize the kangaroo aspects of it as well. This is the main reason why it wound up as a bipedal creature. I did try to emphasize other kangaroolike qualities in this monster to distinguish it from a typical werewolf, including large, long feet and big ears.
Even the coloring is meant to accentuate the kangaroo aspect. I was considering making this creature a bluish-gray color rather than the brown shown here. You see, I had a dinosaur rival for this monster in mind, as well. In many iterations of the Digimon cartoons I mentioned before, the main character pairs off with a red or orange monster that resembles a dinosaur, while his second-in-command often associates with a blue or white mammal of some kind, usually a wolf (for reference, Tai and Agumon on the left, Matt and Gabumon on the right). Making Kangolf a grayish-blue and the dinosaur orange would have been a nod to that series.
While I did like Digimon as a kid, I decided against that idea for now, though it might be worth it to experiment with the colors. When I think about kangaroos, I usually end up thinking about red kangaroos rather than gray ones, so I wanted to use the coloring here to promote the kangaroo part of this beast, as well. Wolves can still be brown and make sense, too, right?
I will probably draw Kangolf again at some point for a better pose or something, but I should probably get cracking on this "dinosaur rival" I was talking about first.
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