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So I can't remember whether I uploaded the reference which I did for this guy last year? Anyway, this is Sedge, and I think he looks much more scientifically accurate now markings-wise. (He sort of just looked weird before.) Now he reads much more strongly as a coyote and the biggest artistic license which I have taken with him is the bit of darker grey on his back - which some coyotes do have, but most don't. I wanted him to look more mountainy though and since more mountainous populations of his species seemed greyer, I went with it. Those populations also appeared to have faint shoulder blazes, like what wolves have, so I went with that too. It was a trick figuring out his leg markings and in the end I don't think what I have gone with is wholly accurate, but I also had to simplify coyote markings a bit, which is the same reason why I didn't make the white around his eye a darker colour. I already had six fur colours for him and I didn't want to go any higher than that. I want to keep the number of fur colours used for characters in the project which Sedge belongs to down to a minimum (although of course I also still want them to look scientifically accurate to a pretty good degree, so I can't go too minimal!)

In the end, I am pretty happy with how he looks now. He feels like a proper coyote; now I get to redesign Larch the wolf, who is from the same project.

Coyotes need more love! The whole time I was looking up photo references for this guy I kept running into horrible photos of poor dead hunted coyotes. I really wish Google would keep those seperate. If I wanted to look at pictures of people hunting coyotes (supposedly for population control but there's scientific evidence that lethal predator control doesn't actually work) then I would specifically search for that. Ugh!

May 12th 2017

©Rosanna P. Brost. All Rights Reserved.
Please do not copy, print without permission or share without due credit.

Description
So I can't remember whether I uploaded the reference which I did for this guy last year? Anyway, this is Sedge, and I think he looks much more scientifically accurate now markings-wise. (He sort of just looked weird before.) Now he reads much more strongly as a coyote and the biggest artistic license which I have taken with him is the bit of darker grey on his back - which some coyotes do have, but most don't. I wanted him to look more mountainy though and since more mountainous populations of his species seemed greyer, I went with it. Those populations also appeared to have faint shoulder blazes, like what wolves have, so I went with that too. It was a trick figuring out his leg markings and in the end I don't think what I have gone with is wholly accurate, but I also had to simplify coyote markings a bit, which is the same reason why I didn't make the white around his eye a darker colour. I already had six fur colours for him and I didn't want to go any higher than that. I want to keep the number of fur colours used for characters in the project which Sedge belongs to down to a minimum (although of course I also still want them to look scientifically accurate to a pretty good degree, so I can't go too minimal!)

In the end, I am pretty happy with how he looks now. He feels like a proper coyote; now I get to redesign Larch the wolf, who is from the same project.

Coyotes need more love! The whole time I was looking up photo references for this guy I kept running into horrible photos of poor dead hunted coyotes. I really wish Google would keep those seperate. If I wanted to look at pictures of people hunting coyotes (supposedly for population control but there's scientific evidence that lethal predator control doesn't actually work) then I would specifically search for that. Ugh!

May 12th 2017

©Rosanna P. Brost. All Rights Reserved.
Please do not copy, print without permission or share without due credit.