Creature Bust WIP

This is an early sculpt based on a silhouette I created in the previous post.  I was mainly going for an interesting silhouette.  More detail will come much later.  Right now I need to focus on nailing down a background for this guy.  I imagine him serving as a hulking guardian of some abscure artifact on a distant planet.  I think he reminds me of a mix between a gorilla, a horse and an eagle.

I started with a base human head mesh in homes that I could continue with decent topology but as it turned out it looks terrible.  I'd like to learn TopoGun very soon to correct some of these issues.