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Artaith-21 — DONATION HEAD SKETCH : 'Cinnamon'
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Published: 2015-08-22 06:37:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1034; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 0
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I was originally going to wait and upload all of these together when finished, but I guess I'll just go ahead and upload them separately, so that way I have stuff to upload XDAnyway, as some of you remember, a few months ago my friend was involved in a terrible car accident that injured her badly and killed her teenage daughter instantly. I offered head sketches to anyone kind enough to donate to the memorial fund.
So here is one of them now, for of his red wolf character, Cinnamon
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You are welcome, dear.
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Very nice colours, I do like that you did inner ear fluff and that the colour border isn't just a solid line, makes it more real. Fantastic work on the eyes too
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Thank you! I've been experimenting a little more with colorizing the outlines so that they aren't so much of that bold black separating the colors from the figure. I eventually want to move towards playing around with a more painterly approach where there are no solid outlines. Eeep- that is quite a step for me, though. Feeling like I'm getting closer to trying that, though XD
And thanks! My approach on eyes keeps changing- I'm always trying to find a good, solid way of doing them consistently.
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You mean painting with no lines to begin with or eventually removing the lines altogether? I reckon you could do the former 
Well you're consistently doing a good job for each piece so I'm not sure how necessary it is to find a consistently consistent way to approach them, variety being the spice of life and art XD Though I hope you are able to develop one if that's what you want to do
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Kinda somewhere inbetween- like, use a basic drawn outline as I always do for the sketch, but then build up the 'paint' over it and let the 'outline' be defined by volume and value, as opposed to just a big toon line.
LOL thanks XD I guess as an artist, we're never happy and we're always growing and thinking we can improve upon something!
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Ah yep I getcha. I need to do more of that too, at the moment I still rely a bit much on flats to delineate things.
I think as artists we've run smack bang into a major ego problem if we ever stop thinking we can improve on something
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Oh yeah. I think that's pretty standard anyway for most people starting out a piece- you put down flats. Or rough shapes or ideas of where color or shadow and light go.
LOL no kidding. Although I have run into one of those kinds of artists before. Here. On Deviantart. And all they draw is 'Animaniacs' art.
The mind boggles.
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honestly I thought he was a fox until I read that he was a wolf
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I have a habit of drawing ears really large, so that probably didn't help much. I probably could have thickened the muzzle a bit, too, but red wolves are much more slender and lighter than gray wolves.
I was working off of a pre-existing ref sheet supplied by the client, so I'm not sure how on model the original design was. If I was designing the character from scratch, I would have added a few more colors myself, like coppers and some black
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Copper would have been fitting for the character I think
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Well, I wanted to make sure I stayed true to your original ref sheet ^^
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wait. Red wolfs are actually a real thing?
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Yup, indeed they are ^^ Unfortunately, there are critically endangered, and there are like, fewer than 50 in the wild. It's a big part of why they are so relatively unknown to many. They were practically hunted to extinction.
www.defenders.org/red-wolf/bas…
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Yup they are! It also doesn't help with misidentification that they're believed to have some coyote in them.
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Beautiful job, though I hope your friend and her family are doing better after that horrible tragedy.
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Thank you so much for the compliment!
And I appreciate your condolences as well. My friend and her family are still struggling to come to terms with a new reality so to speak. It's a very unfortunate part of life that tragedies happen.
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Your very welcome, and I hope they're all able to help, love and support one another through this time.
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There is definitely no shortage of support, at least!
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I really hope you find it acceptable ^^
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Oh it's great! Thanks so much
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So glad to hear it! I always get anxiety over whether or not people are happy with the work I do for them XD
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Welcome. Keep up the good work.
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