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Published: 2006-11-29 18:54:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 63883; Favourites: 861; Downloads: 1265
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MAY 2013: K GUYS. This is SEVEN years old. I keep it up for old memories' sake. It's a terrible tutorial. I don't need to hear every single thing you dislike about it. Like I said, I just keep it up because it was the first piece of mine that got some sort of attention and the likes and I was proud at the time (which, again, was years and years ago. Going towards a decade ago, here!). I'm not interested in all the things you think is wrong with it, it's not going to be updated, it does not reflect what I know today or how I draw today. If you don't like it, just ignore it - there are much better tutorials out there
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It's been ages since I made a tutorial... And I've never made one in this type of format before, it's always been "page tutorials" as parts of websites.
Anyway, as it says, this is not so much showing you how to draw in general, but more comparing dogs and wolves and pointing out some common mistakes when it comes to drawing wolves. Hope anyone out there will find it helpful!
Update February 25th 2009:
If you like this one, I greatly recommend to check out my new wolf tutorial - a much updated one compared to this one!
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Thanks for your comments. This tutorial is 7 years old now, and does not reflect my current knowledge of canines or drawing in general at all. The only reason I still keep it uploaded is for old memories' sake, I don't consider it a good example of what I know or can draw. I originally made it to counter the type of drawings that many people in the communities I would hang out with at that time drew - which were essentially just re-coloured dogs - and often with very incorrect colours, copied straight from cartoons and the likes, instead of looking at real wolves. Wolves do vary an awful lot, as you mentioned, but this was not an attempt at making something that would cover every single subspecies, but rather a "generic", typical grey wolf - to counter directly what I saw at the time. I know that wolves can move their heads and tails, of course (anything else would be really silly lol) but again, the idea was to show the "general" wolf, their normal, resting position, and point out how it tends to differ from the normal, resting position of an average dog.
I'm not interested in making a new wolf tutorial, sorry - I did make one last year that gives some tips when drawing canines and felines, and what makes them different from each other, from a cartoon-oriented perspective, though, which may or may not interest you.
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in youre draws the mussle is too big, look at head after look at nuzzle of real wolves, avfter look at youre wolves.
Ears are to small. ears must be twice or more (maex 4) of an eye's size. u have others bad places, i thing u must study the wolves more accentully.make a lineart of a real photo with a wolf, and maybe youre draw will be better
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I think its a nice torturial, and everybody draws different!
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This tutorial is 6 years old, I recommend to look at my more recent works instead, I draw a lot better now.
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Oouuhh.....thank you for the tutorial....;u;
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very helpful tutorial, i want to practice wolf drawing, but my drawings tend to be based on whatever i feel at the time.
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i disagree with the color thing...
wolf can have a white tail tip.
i have seen one with one.
and i think that th egray and white is perfectly fine.
wolves can look like that.....
it is realistic...
so... yeah. just something to points out...
other wise.
you did okay.
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very nice
I see you used the stanard Timber Wolf for the example wolf, any chance you could make one for the 'Southern' styled wolf? (A.k.a Indian, Arabian, etc.)
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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haah. the claw thing. I love/hate the fantasy wolves who can claw out throats with a swipe of a paw
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The last part is the best. xD Tough I have to disagree with it at some point. If the artist's style is very cartoony, it's OK to give the characters simpler colorations. (Tough I hate the dead gray with white markings, you're right it looks ugly <.<) Plus the colors that you find odd, aren't odd at all in fantasy... Depends of the character's theme and story what looks the best on it. But I agree with the anatomy part, wolves still have to have a shape of a wolf, not a manbearpig from South Park or crocodile with wolfy markings. 
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Thank you for the tutorial, it was very helpful. I'll be looking into the newest wolf tutorial as well.
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If someone were to use a dog as a reference to a wolf, the best is probably an Alaskan Malamute or a husky, they are the closest. As for your tutorial, the only things I can see wrong are the snouts are too round, a real wolves snout is more angular, and the fact that none of these wolves look all that bright. Real wolves are incredibly intelligent, enough to put most dogs to shame. other than those details, good job.
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This tutorial is 4 years old, if you check the description there's a link to a much better updated version I made last year XD
I personally feel most dogs are not very wolf-like, at first glance a husky or malamute can be wolf-like but there are many factors that set them apart, the proportions are very different too, like the size of the skull in proportion to the body, or the paws in proportion to the body. I would rather recommend to look at saarloos wolfhonden or czechoslovakian wolfdogs in that case, since both of those breeds have been crossed with wolves within the last 50ish years or so and show many wolf like features (though they are still clearly dogs).
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I was only referring to those as reference for head and body shape, scale and proportions are another issue entirely.
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This tutorial is four years old. I would recommend to look at the updated version instead.
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The tutorial is awesome, I drew this awesome wolf too.
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i read your "Good Luck" to "Good Luch".
Great tutorial!
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Hello,
I have featured this piece in my article "Canis Lupis A feature of Wolves"
[link]
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This helped me. I always drew the back legs like a regular dog (your average dog). Now I see my mistake, and hopefully I draw them right next time. =]
Thanks.
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Geez, this is great! I'll be using this alot!
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Wonderful tutorial. I now know I've been doing quite a few things wrong when I've been drawing wolves - anatomy and placement wise - so this is a huge help.
Thanks for posting this!
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hehe, just read the part that says the should be no ? about if it is a fox or a wolf, heh, in my case with drawing a made-up species, it supposed to be atype of cat, the head modeled like that of an ocelot(with huge ears and all), but my freind says it'sa FREAKIN' FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you! Unike and wonderful tutorial. I'm just starting to draw wolves and it is very helpful to know what common standrad is wrong. Nice to see someone who really knows wolves.
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Pretty good, those mistakes are reather common, I myself get confused with the height of the hocks ^^". But I should point out the snouts you drew are too long for the head's size. All in all, really interesting, it's nice to see that someone paid attention to details that most people seem to not pay attention to ^^
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Super Tutorial! i draw wolves and dogs alot, but I've been making alot of mistakes like the ones on here. Thanks, it relly helps!
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Now heres a tutorial I *really* needed. This has cleared up a lot of previous misconceptions I had.
Cheers!
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This is going to be a great help when I draw a wolf again, thanks :3
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Thanks for pointing out thoses "common mistakes". ^^
This is really helpfull. ^^
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DAYUM. I never really knew how many mistakesI was making untill now! Thanks a ton for this tutorial!
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Thanks for the tut i was just looking for one of these when i found this haven't read all the way through it but im about to.
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great tut! I've been wanting to do something like it for a long time (just have too much other stuff to do x_x), because it drives me crazy how people make "wolves" out of something that looks like a husky mix =/. Bravo!
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Ooo, very nice Nova! ^-^
I'm a major anatomy failure. I've never really looked at any in my life, so all my stuff will be dead unrealistic xD
This is most useful!
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Just to point out - wolves come in a fantastic variety of colors, including the 'mistake' you have there. I've seen gray/white wolves before :3 They're uncommon, but they exist. So do pure white wolves, black wolves, and all shades in between. A white tailtip is not necessarily 'wrong' ^^
Otherwise, awesome tutorial X3
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Yes, and I said that in the text
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