It worked alright

Put the clean lines onto the painting and it looks pretty decent.
I don't think that other process would've worked for this one really cos its less smaller components, really just one big image, so this was the right process to follow.

This is the line work I scanned in before painting it all

This is the scan with the linework on top

This is everything together with a background and his mouth filled in, and I added more shadow around the foxes teeth for extra horridness

I like this one, but the edges around the fox are a bit off
It'll do though