I promised to do a couple of studies of the wolf. As I know there are many canine artists on deviantart and back on my old account people asked me for a tutorial on how to draw their anatomy properly. So here it is (:
It ain't perfect, but I tried to put all my knowledge about their anatomy in it and tried to gather as much information as I could. Yet I wanted to keep it simple, no difficult terms etc. (;
I wanted to submit a large sheet containing everything but it would look unorganized. So I split the sheet up in 3 parts. This one is about:
* skull * skeleton * muscle structure * body silhouette
If there are any mistakes in the spelling, note me and I will change it (I still am not a star in English xD )
I will try to get the other ones done as soon as I can, they are awfully large files to create x)
These sketch and study sheets are just the way I have learned to draw wolves. They are just guidelines, of course you don't have to draw them this way. Draw them as you like and use these as anatomical guidelines to help you understand their movement and shapes (; !
I do not own any of the reference pictures I used for drawing these, they are just studies for improvement and to help others out (;
These tutorials are fantastic! I'm trying to create a human-wolf thing and this is helping me a lot! Thanks for posting them! It's so nice that you can draw them! I haven't really started drawing animals (the human body is enough for now), but I'm impressed that you can draw the wolf so realistic! Tell me, where did you learn from? The details are just so good!
I'm glad that you find the tutorials helpful and that they can help you out somehow :] !
I've learned a lot from paying close attention to photographs of wolves :] I drew most of the tutorial's sketches with good references. The more I drew them, the easier it got for me to remember their anatomy and the way they move ^^ If you are looking for good references, I used to find a lot of good photographs on [link] . Monty Sloan has been taking a lot of photographs from a group of wolves living in Wolfpark :] The site include some good reference material for practicing drawing wolves as well !
I was thinking about adding them in a seperate tutorial, as I couldn't find concrete information about a wolf it's facial muscles, they are pretty similar to a dog's facial muscles though (:
I usually work from the skull / skip the muscles when building up a drawing of a wolf it's face. I did do a tutorial on how the face is drawn though ^^
It's just that I have a character who resembles a wolf and has no skin in the face so I need to see the facial musculature, but I also have problems finding it T__T
Ah I see, it's indeed difficult to find good references for it, but maybe you can reference from a dog it's muscles as much as possible (: These are pretty clear references I found: [link][link][link]
Wow! Thanks! I had seen another image with dog's muscles, but they looked different >___< Now I'll have to correct the ones I already drew in my comic ¬¬
(the human body is enough for now), but I'm impressed that you can draw the wolf so realistic! Tell me, where did you learn from? The details are just so good!
I've learned a lot from paying close attention to photographs of wolves :] I drew most of the tutorial's sketches with good references. The more I drew them, the easier it got for me to remember their anatomy and the way they move ^^ If you are looking for good references, I used to find a lot of good photographs on [link] . Monty Sloan has been taking a lot of photographs from a group of wolves living in Wolfpark :] The site include some good reference material for practicing drawing wolves as well
I usually work from the skull / skip the muscles when building up a drawing of a wolf it's face. I did do a tutorial on how the face is drawn though ^^
I hope they help a bit x3
I wish you succes with your future drawings and your comic ^_^ !