Tiger progress

The Tiger Loom 1 piece progress. Now for my least favorite part: the strings. I have learned a few things doing a project this big.
1. My homemade loom needs some improvements.
2. For this type of project add about 5 bead rows at each end and on each side as the project is worked.

The only way to organize 31 colors of beads. And this becomes .......

THIS!!

And Here He/She is! Now for the hard part: the strings!! Then deciding what this tiger will be mounted on.
There will be more Tigers. The next one is one of my own graphed patterns with the BeadTool program.