Splinterlands Art Contest Week 195 - Crystal Werewolf !

Hello everyone I am back from a bit of an absence with my latest drawing for the Splinterlands Art Contest !

This time I chose to go for my take on an older card - the Crystal Werewolf.

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My vision for the piece was to go for a head only front view to challenge myself a bit and go for a bit more detail, since I never really drew fur so don't be too hard on me, but constructive criticism is always welcome, as usual.

Here is the initial sketch, I am going on an A4 paper:

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I was fairly happy with the overall composition so I proceeded to laying some light undertones:

I skipped adding any color to the fur at this point to try and add as many different colors later on one by one to give it some depth. I am not sure if that was the correct way to go or I should have gone part by part and fleshing it all out a little bit at a time but decided against it, because I figured it would be more difficult to make it all coherent at the end. Mostly because I usually spread my drawings over several days and would be hard to reproduce exactly the same strokes, color, shading, etc.

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Time to add some detail and I started with the front fangs and the "face" as a whole.

Here is where I started experimenting to see how to go about the fur by starting on the forehead and a little bit here and there just to get a feel of how to do it. As I told you this is the first time drawing fur for me and I looked up some wolf photos as reference, just to see how the fur clumps up, how it flows, what are the color variations and such. I debated going in and adding some browns but decided against it to stick to the grey theme, all I added differently is just a pinch of blue here and there to bring it all together.

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And here is the final result, I am fairly happy with it and I hope you guys like it too.

I learned a lot during this drawing, mostly that fur is hard to draw but it is a nice challenge to try it out

I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did drawing it, To everyone that takes the time to check out my post I wish a great day/night and till the next post!

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Materials list:
A4 200g/m2 paper
Pentel P205 with HB lead for the sketch
Faber-Castell Classic set of 60 colored pencils
Some black fine liner
White permanent marker for the lightest parts
White acrylic for some really fine final touches

Thanks again and have an amazing day!