'Anatomy Of A Fox' Skeletonised Original Artwork

This is so helpful! My biggest  challenger as a soft mounter right now is coming up with a better (partial) armature design than this: MY ARMATURE DESIGN IS CURRENTLY BEING REVISED {SPECIAL NOTE: Anyone familiar with the wonderful work of Brian Hendricks will immediately know where I got the idea of pairing this rock/limb wall habitat with a gray fox in this pose}  My goal was to create a simple armature for a soft mount that would allow it to hold it's own head up. Leg wires are optional. Here are the three main components of the front portion:
Head form, a neck carved out of taxi foam, and the wire part of the armature itself.  The first step was to sand off the mold release residue from the head form (I hate this part-the dust wreaks havoc with my sinuses even though I wear a mask):
Next, I drew simple guide lines on the base of the head form, where the spine would connect to it if it was a real skull:

I then la