The slumbering wolf

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I’m currently writing in my little cocoon of warmth aka pillows and blankets. Day light savings feels like a trick because I was having a hard enough time with my sleep cycle and then we fell back an hour. Regardless of the time, I need to get out of the house before I’m swept into another nap. It sounds nice but I know it’ll screw my with sleep schedule even more. Tomorrow I’m hanging out with @jthiessen in the afternoon. We’re painting sculptures so I’ll have to hunt down an art supply store to fetch myself paints. I plan on painting a majority of my sculptures in a bronze color but there is one I wouldn’t mind adding a range of color to. I won’t drop any hints.You’ll have to keep a lookout tomorrow to see which sculpture it is.

Besides my fun hangout, tomorrow will surely be filled with chaos. Within a small timeframe I have to get up early to meet with my dad, make a stop to vote and then start packing for my trip to Chicago. I’m planning on packing light since I’m really only there for three days and spending 16 hours total traveling by bus. It would’ve been awesome if I could have found affordable flights but I’ve taken the bus before and it’s not all that bad. I just need to stay productive in those 8 hours.

This warm up sketch of a wolf was drawn last night. I wasn’t able to post it because I ran out of energy.

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The progress...

_{All my drawings are original sketches drawn digitally by me on the Procreate App using the iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.}

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I had to tweak the pencils quite a bit to ensure that it looked like a wolf. Like the shape of the snout and the position of the eyes and ears. I’m so light handed with my sketches that I had to duplicate this image three times to get the desired strength in the lines.

Next I began to shading freely with my pencil.

The pencil wasn’t enough so I layered color with my round brush.

To ensure that I was getting the right shading I’d pinch the image to make it smaller and then I’d add deeper colors accordingly.

The white background seemed too strong for all the shading that I put into the image so I finally settled on coloring it in with a gradient appearance. It balances out the darker shades to the left if you get what I mean.

And that’s the finished look!

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I’ll probably continue to do more warm up sketching today until I’m back in my element.

Thanks for stopping by to view my work!🦊