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MAY 2013: K GUYS. This is SEVEN years old. I keep it up for old memories' sake. It's a terrible tutorial. I don't need to hear every single thing you dislike about it. Like I said, I just keep it up because it was the first piece of mine that got some sort of attention and the likes and I was proud at the time (which, again, was years and years ago. Going towards a decade ago, here!). I'm not interested in all the things you think is wrong with it, it's not going to be updated, it does not reflect what I know today or how I draw today. If you don't like it, just ignore it - there are much better tutorials out there :)

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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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Cryoraptor704's avatar
Very interesting...
But I believe that there are a few things that should be noted:

Wolves survive in many diferent enviroments, that demand diferent adaptations. The heads that you made in the top right could easly be from diferent subspecies of wolves.

Wolves do keep their head held high when observing their sorroundings or displaying dominance(their neck is just not as those of some dog breeds). And the tail can be held in many diferent positions, depending on the message that the wolf is trying to say. It might be raised vertically or held horizontally.

Finally, it is commun for wolves to have these "dead" collors, if they live in cold regions, and, sometimes, even the white tailtip. Though you're right that it's collors always show many diferent shades of gray or brown.

I did look at your new tutorial and ,honestly, it's not that much diferent from this one, though I liked to see the diferences between arabian and artic wolves.

I enjoyed seeing your tutorials and I recomend them, but I think you shoud make a new one that explains these details.