The slumbering wolf
I’m currently writing in my little cocoon of warmth aka pillows and blankets. Day light savings feels like a trick because I was having a hard enough time with my sleep cycle and then we fell back an hour. Regardless of the time, I need to get out of the house before I’m swept into another nap. It sounds nice but I know it’ll screw my with sleep schedule even more. Tomorrow I’m hanging out with @jthiessen in the afternoon. We’re painting sculptures so I’ll have to hunt down an art supply store to fetch myself paints. I plan on painting a majority of my sculptures in a bronze color but there is one I wouldn’t mind adding a range of color to. I won’t drop any hints.You’ll have to keep a lookout tomorrow to see which sculpture it is.
Besides my fun hangout, tomorrow will surely be filled with chaos. Within a small timeframe I have to get up early to meet with my dad, make a stop to vote and then start packing for my trip to Chicago. I’m planning on packing light since I’m really only there for three days and spending 16 hours total traveling by bus. It would’ve been awesome if I could have found affordable flights but I’ve taken the bus before and it’s not all that bad. I just need to stay productive in those 8 hours.
This warm up sketch of a wolf was drawn last night. I wasn’t able to post it because I ran out of energy.
The progress...
I had to tweak the pencils quite a bit to ensure that it looked like a wolf. Like the shape of the snout and the position of the eyes and ears. I’m so light handed with my sketches that I had to duplicate this image three times to get the desired strength in the lines.
Next I began to shading freely with my pencil.
The pencil wasn’t enough so I layered color with my round brush.
To ensure that I was getting the right shading I’d pinch the image to make it smaller and then I’d add deeper colors accordingly.
The white background seemed too strong for all the shading that I put into the image so I finally settled on coloring it in with a gradient appearance. It balances out the darker shades to the left if you get what I mean.
And that’s the finished look!
sleeping beast!
been always amazed by this creature! very mysterious and beautiful! <3
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Love the drawing @vermillionfox. I like the anime-ish style to it.
Very nice drawing. Health on your hands.
I like this wolfie resting sketch... looking at animal sleeping brings me peaceful feeling :).
Really nice drawing, @foxi, I think the wolf looks really deep in sleep... Very nice and expressive <3
I know it was asleep to begin with but before you started dropping more shadow on I got the impression it was initially somewhat awake and drifted off as the drawing progressed. Feeling a bit like that? XD
You can spend 8hrs drawing and napping on the bus? :D
Have fun with all the things you're getting up to :)
Soooo cyyoottee!
Oh, it is today you have the vote. Good luck! It gets dark here in winter, it has already started and my wife can't get out of bed in the morning. I have proposed that we simply put her to bed and throw yellowed leafs, twigs, pillows, plaids and plastic bags over her and let her go into hibernation.