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Wolf tutorial by ~novablue:iconnovablue:

Categories Resources & Stock Images > Tutorials > Traditional Art > Drawing > Animal Anatomy

©2006-2009 ~novablue
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It's been ages since I made a tutorial... And I've never made one in this type of format before, it's always been "page tutorials" as parts of websites.
Anyway, as it says, this is not so much showing you how to draw in general, but more comparing dogs and wolves and pointing out some common mistakes when it comes to drawing wolves. Hope anyone out there will find it helpful!

Update February 25th 2009:
If you like this one, I greatly recommend to check out my new wolf tutorial - a much updated one compared to this one!
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~blademalfoy Nov 29, 2006, 12:05:20 PM
Just to point out - wolves come in a fantastic variety of colors, including the 'mistake' you have there. I've seen gray/white wolves before :3 They're uncommon, but they exist. So do pure white wolves, black wolves, and all shades in between. A white tailtip is not necessarily 'wrong' ^^

Otherwise, awesome tutorial X3

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~delPigeon Nov 29, 2006, 12:54:23 PM
Ooo, very nice Nova! ^-^

I'm a major anatomy failure. I've never really looked at any in my life, so all my stuff will be dead unrealistic xD
This is most useful!
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~novablue Nov 29, 2006, 1:24:28 PM
Yes, and I said that in the text :) But what I was aiming for, was the classic wolf pattern, which is often misinterprented. Technically though, a "silver and white" wolf is "just" an agouti with very little tipping, and the markings aren't really white, just super-pale cream. White in animals is lack of pigment instead of a colour, and wolf markings aren't ever truly white. I've never seen a wolf with a "real" white tailtip (at most a pale tail overall, but never a dark tail with a pale tip) but I've not done THAT much research on their colours, mostly on their overall anatomy. I'd imagine they are rare though.
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~Dalmatinka Nov 30, 2006, 8:45:48 AM
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great tut!

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~Bleuborzoi Dec 1, 2006, 5:48:46 AM
great tut! I've been wanting to do something like it for a long time (just have too much other stuff to do x_x), because it drives me crazy how people make "wolves" out of something that looks like a husky mix =/. Bravo!

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~neolid53 Dec 10, 2006, 9:06:23 AM
Thanks for the tut i was just looking for one of these when i found this haven't read all the way through it but im about to.
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~shoelace-ninja Aug 3, 2007, 1:39:18 PM
DAYUM. I never really knew how many mistakesI was making untill now! Thanks a ton for this tutorial! :D

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~Lady-DV Aug 10, 2007, 1:53:09 PM
Thanks for pointing out thoses "common mistakes". ^^
This is really helpfull. ^^

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Mood: Wow! ~fruitsbasket01 Aug 16, 2007, 10:03:02 AM
Your tutorial is amazing!

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