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LisaPannek [2016-06-22 16:46:09 +0000 UTC]
Nice drawing and expression!
Fur is not my speciality, but when I have to draw light hair like whiskers, I make this "identation method" with a sharp white pencil (Polychromos from Faber-Castell). The benefit is that there is a slice of colour you can't easily paint over AND you have a dent, too. I often use this technique on feather quills and feather highlights.
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xXScaley-MuffinzXx In reply to CSIllustrator [2016-06-19 14:37:55 +0000 UTC]
Ahh, thank you so much for the tip! I'm using pencils at the moment which is just so much fun, but I'm hoping to move onto more complex traditional art tools (preferably Promarkers) sometime soon too... just to add more colour into my gallery. xD
Oh fair enough! It's still beautiful nonetheless. <'3
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Venatorius [2016-06-10 12:00:46 +0000 UTC]
Looks awesome and very realistic βΊ.I wish I had the patience to make my drawings as detailed and realistic as this one haha but I'm stuck with semi-realistic drawings and I'm rather satisfied with it hehe.
By the way,what is the rank of tnis particular wild dog in its pack?
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CSIllustrator In reply to Venatorius [2016-06-10 13:04:32 +0000 UTC]
Thank you
Well my pack has been particularly strange, the males had a very interesting history and so are not exactly typical. In short there have been numerous (too many!) changes in alpha male position, but for most of it this guy was at the bottom, in a way. His brothers, Bwana and Kondo, were the main contenders for alpha male, but whoever was not at the time would interact with Hasani here on a more-or-less equal level, so there wasn't the normal linear pecking order; just an alpha, and two equal subordinates. I wasn't around when the males (imported) were introduced to the females (bred in our zoo), but when they first came in some of the keepers said Hasani here seemed the most dominant. At the moment he is now alpha again as there are no breeding opportunities (out of season), which is very interesting (it's not for lack of interest; I have seen him mate with the alpha female), and the other two are happy to submit. For the time being ...Β
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Venatorius In reply to CSIllustrator [2016-06-10 13:33:54 +0000 UTC]
Hm so the situation with the African Wild Dogs in your local zoo has some parallels with the two Wild Dogs from an earlier National Geographic series titled Wildlife Diary(or something along those lines).The two wild dogs that the researchers were tracking in the series were both males and when a female was introduced,the two males seem to be taking turns with being the alpha male at first until the female has chosen which of the two males would be her mate.It was a very old series but if I remember correctly,all the wild dogs featured in the series were born in captivity but were then released into a nature reserve when they got older.
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