[Art] Russian Wolf as Totem

[moonvoice]

Probably one of the first wolf/totem pictures I've ever been happy with.

I'm slowly moving into more use of acrylic / watercolour pencils, but I'm not very comfortable with them and a lot of this picture is still in coloured pencil.



Russian Wolf
Canis lupus communis



illo's board / coloured pencil (derwent) / watercolour pencil / acrylic (including metallic paint highlighting (silver).

Comments

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

Ravens, the northern variety (bigger and no white eyes), possibly even one of the white ravens that hung around UAF.
Moose were normally pretty ornery, but we had this phantom white moose (well, not so phantom- wildlife photographers had snapped pictures) who'd been known to save hikers after they fell into frozen lakes or rivers. He was not your average moose and it'd be interesting to see him depicted.
Um, I've never seen you do a bat. Arctic or otherwise, bats are cool, and I'd love to see how your style applies to them. Yes, we had bats in Alaska.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I do have a bat actually: http://ravenari.deviantart.com/art/Bat-Shamanic-47013582
It's a ghost bat, which is a white/pink bat that we get in Australia. I never liked the picture, but other people seemed to. :)