A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing

We hired a guy I met in Bulgaria to do artwork for a new project, Baum's "Animal Fairy Tales."  He's intense.  Tough as nails.  Reminds me of Mike in the Breaking Bad series.  Enforcer; not afraid to rough you up.  Y'know, perfect for a series of kids books.

His name is something beginning with a Z.  I can't pronounce it.  I think it means like wounded or gory or something.  His last name is Lupov, which sounds like lupine to me, which means wolf.  Wounded Wolf.  You can see it in his art.  This is his self portrait:

He's actually a lot of fun.  We went to a lot of wild places in the seamier side of Sofia, which I'm not telling you where.  Z has lots of unbelievable stories, also which I'm not going to share.  Because I'm nothing like him.  Except everything. 

Here's a sketch I did of him in Sofia when I was there...what was I doing in Sofia, nope, I'm not saying.