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Description Ive never submitted a tutorial to DA before..but people kept asking...and this goes in miscellanious right?...there wasnt a section for OC..its a large image..I draw big

This is my tutorial for how I make easy wolf heads...its pretty simple, well atleast to me it is..Please be original and come up with you own style..I dont mind people using this as a reference though

Im an aweful teacher peeps...enjoy!

all of this is on one layer

Step 1- Pick a dark color for the bg...I dont change the color of the paper, I just floodfill, because I normally color on one layer, so that everything blends together...if you need to erase, then choose the color you picked for the bg

step 2- Pick a color, I chose white-ish blue, make like a cross shape with a semi large brush.

step 3- I chose a little bit darker color and drew the ears and the top of the head..and I started shaping the muzzle.

step 4- take another dark color and fill in around the muzzle and on top of the head..it sorda makes it 3d-ish..and I also chose black and made a spot where the nose goes.

step 5-where the head makes a 'Y' put the eyes at the top of the 'y'..I just make black dots for eyes..do your ears. and I also started showing the facial structures, around the eyes..and dogs, on the top of there heads have this line, where the fur parts and it goes down all the way to his nose...which I havent added yet.

step 6- I added more shading above the eyes and below the eyes and added sommore white to bring out his cheek bone under his eyes..wow I say eyes alot..ITS AN IMPORTANT FEATURE..add it some irises, and a little highlight on the nose

step 7- now we're blending..I took a darker color and darkened some of my fur and shadows..and I also used a smaller brush to add in some fur affects..the same with the ears..I took a small brush and a white-ish color and added some fur on the ears..and some extra fur that would be behind his head on his neck. Add pupils and a little shiny spot in eyes.

step 8- continue with the details...add more furr..use smaller and smaller brushes for little individual strands of fur.

and voila..eventually you will have a wolf head.
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Comments: 220

ShinyAquaBlueRibbon [2010-11-26 21:03:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank yoouuuu! It's really helpful for a noob wolf drawer.

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Walkure-Amok [2010-11-19 10:11:10 +0000 UTC]

Hey thanks for posting this.
I am really gonna use it for teaching myself how to make a wolf.
(it's my favorite animal and yet i suck at drawing one -_-")
gotta go, see ya *wave*

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gussie55 In reply to ??? [2010-11-18 20:31:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I created my first wolf head using your tutorial. I'd love a critique, if you have the time, because I'd love to be able to get better. My wolf is just a cute wolf shape now, how can I make it better? Thank you - you're awesome!

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DragbaX [2010-11-16 15:57:31 +0000 UTC]

yay! thank you!! XD
and nice job!

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GrumperGoose [2010-10-14 03:41:28 +0000 UTC]

YES

THANK YOU

YESYESYESYE-
JUSTYES

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thaisdefreitas [2010-09-12 23:40:56 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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KikletMisty [2010-08-28 23:22:12 +0000 UTC]

Love it soo much

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utriv [2010-07-22 20:41:07 +0000 UTC]

Cool! Love it!

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reshiram1 [2010-07-13 03:36:04 +0000 UTC]

tankyou i always dra good but the wolf is an exception

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XxDarkMoon224xX [2010-07-09 21:54:04 +0000 UTC]

Sweet! Now, hopefully, I can draw a wolf facing forward! Thanks!

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zhibathewolf [2010-06-16 18:33:34 +0000 UTC]

i love it is so cool is so...beautiful this is my Favorites i mean it <3<3<3

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IrisHime [2009-12-23 09:03:52 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely beautiful. I've never seen anyone draw a wolf using a cross for the face. Genius~!

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SarahDHaynes [2009-11-03 01:36:06 +0000 UTC]

Now I know that I have been doing the face entirely wrong.

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badxwolf [2009-09-26 03:25:22 +0000 UTC]

nice thing to know

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MaryGute [2009-09-25 14:29:47 +0000 UTC]

is cool, thanks for the tutorial

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LaraRules81 In reply to ??? [2009-09-03 02:24:37 +0000 UTC]

Very useful!

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Nocturnalwhitewolf In reply to ??? [2009-08-28 15:50:12 +0000 UTC]

I just realized my comment said "could never wolves" XD. I meant could never draw wolves. Oops.

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Nocturnalwhitewolf In reply to ??? [2009-08-28 15:45:45 +0000 UTC]

This helps so much. I could never wolves before, but this simple step by step tutorial that you've made has helped greatly! Thank you!

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TalksLikeJune [2009-08-18 18:32:02 +0000 UTC]

wow, I never thought of it like this. This is a great reference for beginning digital artists, or people that want to learn to draw wolves. I could definitely use this as a sort of starting point and make the details from there, after the last step. Thanks for sharing!

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stumptastic [2009-07-16 00:48:57 +0000 UTC]

I'm using it as a reference for TRADITIONAL media.

I must say, step one is hard.... I'm such a fucking smart-ass. Sorry. XD

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firedanceryote [2009-05-06 18:33:25 +0000 UTC]

Totally different from how I work. I'll have to try this sometime

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Kishou [2009-04-27 02:45:24 +0000 UTC]

OMG... Thank you sooo much! You have no idea how much this helped me. TT^TT I could never draw wolves head-on but now I can thank to your absolutely fabulous tutorial~! Instant from me!

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Legend-of-Chaos [2009-04-09 22:16:56 +0000 UTC]

Thankyouthankyouthankyou! I've been needing a tut like this!

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fang [2009-03-28 20:45:43 +0000 UTC]

owow, i never thought of using a cross as a base before lol.

goodjob!

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Team-Riley [2009-03-21 01:12:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!!!! Yay! Now i can continue on my quest to draw Asa in his wolf form! (You'll know what i'm talking about if you read the Charlie Bone aka Children of the red king series)

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Plathix [2009-01-31 11:31:07 +0000 UTC]

Nice tutorial.

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emofirewolf [2009-01-18 20:17:29 +0000 UTC]

awesome ima use dat 2 draw wolves better n_n

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Queen-Uriel [2008-10-03 20:31:06 +0000 UTC]

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Thanks so much!

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Akeyti [2008-07-09 21:05:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, it helped me really much!

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Wolf-Light [2008-05-06 13:12:58 +0000 UTC]

I've been needing to work on my muzzles for a while now, thanks for posting this tutorial!

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pixity-mish [2008-02-19 08:44:22 +0000 UTC]

This looks great Easy to understand! I've favourited, as I'd like to give it a go later

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katikat [2008-01-28 17:30:49 +0000 UTC]

Amazing awesome tutorial, it will help me ^__^

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Joava [2008-01-04 04:02:00 +0000 UTC]

Oh!!! *hugs you* Finally! I've been Everywhere trying to find a good tutorial for the front view of a wolf and you've done it! This is great! I'm sooo glad you did this! ^^ Thanks soo much!

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drakenimmortal [2007-12-27 04:13:10 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for providing this. I've been thinking of an image with a wolf in it and this will really help.
Thanks

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jhubert [2007-12-04 15:35:23 +0000 UTC]

Added to the Art Tutorials Wiki .

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clarie-on-wind [2007-12-02 13:14:40 +0000 UTC]

wow xD

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lilredrosewolflil [2007-11-13 10:34:33 +0000 UTC]

this helped me alot your the best sorry about my spelling i'm not a very good speller

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KahiaInferno [2007-11-11 17:38:14 +0000 UTC]

I realize you made this tut Forever ago... but it really helped me a lot, so thank you for it

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Wol4ica [2007-11-02 18:19:48 +0000 UTC]

Cool, I should try it to!

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GhostWolff [2007-10-25 01:15:42 +0000 UTC]

wow awesome, very awesome, now i can finaly nail front profiles x.x XD !!

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in-the-moon [2007-10-20 12:19:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!
It really help me!

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The-Midnight-Artist [2007-09-03 08:53:26 +0000 UTC]

DUDE! THANKYOU! (dun mind me Ive been on the comp 5 hours straight!) You, you, you, you ROX! Intant fav! I love the whole cross thing when you start out, I found that helpful.

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Woolfred [2007-08-15 14:51:46 +0000 UTC]

Hehe It is great! You've done very good work here. It wil help. Thanks very much

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TripletNr2 [2007-08-07 18:28:27 +0000 UTC]

Awsome tutorial ^^

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HmanFire [2007-08-03 00:01:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, thank you, thanks you!
I just made a half-assed attempt at doing a wolf with your turtorial, and it actully looked like a wolf!!! That has never happende to me before !! (So happy! ....and tired. Darn, time to sleep.)

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daisy7 In reply to HmanFire [2007-08-03 00:32:51 +0000 UTC]

^^

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thirif [2007-07-31 06:30:17 +0000 UTC]

going back and commenting on things i had faved and not commented on. just realized that it sucks when people do that, lol.

i love this tutorial. i'm trying to work on my anatomy, so any good reference i can fine is awesome. thank you for putting out great stuff like this!

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oibyrd [2007-07-15 02:26:33 +0000 UTC]

This deviation has been featured temporarily in my Resource File at this link:
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- I hope that it brings you some new fans Thank you for inspiring artists like me who depend on creative resources to start our own artwork !

Sandi ox

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daisy7 In reply to oibyrd [2007-07-16 16:49:41 +0000 UTC]

^^ Thank you

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SketchedTiger [2007-05-12 05:04:14 +0000 UTC]

Great tutorial -fave-

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