FWEND?

The latest project from my art class. The assignment was to draw a Chimera kind of thing, and this guy immediately jumped into my head.

I liked the lineart, but when I actually went to color it, I started to hate it (the fact that I had no idea how to use acrylic paint didn't help XD ). But the next week, my teacher was able to help me out, and now not only do I like it, but he was all super excited about it and wants a copy to put on the wall. Well, cool!

The design itself makes me oddly happy...

As for what this is? I have no idea. Some kind of dog rat...thing. Aw man, what do I put for the keywords?!