Hi everyone! I’m doing charity commissions to donate to the BLM movement! Drawing sketched or colored headshots of a character (or two) of your choice (fan art, OCs, portrait, etc.)
Payment will be through Paypal, and I will post/send the proof of donation afterwards https://t.co/K8NrA4MDCV
Thank you @ maybemakingsoup on Twitter for your donation and support for the BLM movement! $25 has been donated to the Official George Floyd Memorial Fund ❤️
Still taking more!! Also let me know if you have a local organization you want to support!
It can be difficult to differentiate canine characters with similar color pallets. It’s really important to express the feelings and emotions of the character through the pose and facial construction or otherwise they’ll basically be a clone. I took Aniu as the base design that I referenced from for all 3 drawings. I LOVE her design in general as she really hits the mark for me as far as great wolf designs. She was just a re-hash of her source work, but it gave me a lot of ideas as to HOW to build a good looking wolf character.
The original art style for Wolf’s Rain is gorgeous, but the wolves themselves fall short in terms of designs within the style. They’re all basically the same with a few tweaks here and there, so I wanted the wolf designs to reflect their human designs and personalities. Kiba is the most wolf-y acting of the main cast, so I didn’t give him a dynamic post that would make him look too human. He’s proud, but also pensive and determined. Since he’s obviously some kind of arctic/tundra wolf I gave him a lot more fur than the other wolves (but not as fluffy/ethereal as Aniu). This also gave him a nice silhouette to distinguish him form the rest of the cast. My main focus was on his eyes/face. I really wanted to capture that serious far off look he has in many of the episodes while searching for paradise.
Akame is a kishu inu, not a wolf, but his design is also a good example for comparison. Similar to Kiba, he’s proud, but not prideful. The source of his pride come to the dedication to his clan, not an internal struggle like Kiba, and his pose reflects that (head held high, more open stance). He’s also older than Aniu and Kiba so his face is a more worn and roughed up. Since his name means ‘red eyes’ I played with the idea of him being albino and gave his base palette a red tone. This is also because I had planned to also draw Jinnai and Kirikaze as white kishus, once again to differentiate them from their leader in color and design. Probably could have blocked him in a bit more to make him look more doggy, but sometimes the design speaks to me more than 100% accurately portraying the animal. You can lose a lot of good lines and character if you make them too stiff or too close to real animals. It’s a cartoon, so it’s good to relax sometimes and have some fun with lines, shape, and weight :0!!
Also if you’ve been eyeing anything in our shop, we briefly interrupt this Huevember to bring you some good news! We’ve got a ton of new dog and dog-adjacent wood pins, some excellent new stickers if I do say so myself, and even better, it’s all 20% off until Nov 30!
So if you feel inspired to get some goodies for your winter holiday of choice, now is a great time to do a capitalism.
“There’s no such place as Paradise… At the ends of the earth, there’s nothing at all. No matter how far you walk, the same road just keeps going on and on. But in spite of that, why am I so driven to find it…?”
The Wolf’s Rain MAP I got to participate back in May~June last year is complete~☾!!
So happy! Please give it a watch {Spoilers Warning if you haven’t watched the series!} everyone has done stunning work!! Thank you again for organising this, Axis <3
