Yes, I have been a watercoloring fool. I think I'm coming to the end of my mad little stint. I have to get back to my commissions, anyhow.
Well, this is a gift for a friend, of his character, Freed, in his werewolf form. The scan really murdered it, despite all my fiddling with the saturation, light, etc. Ak!
A few people have mentioned that I could work with heavier paper to get more of a 'watercolor' look with my watercolor. Well, that might be the sane thing to do, but I'm afraid I am more interested in the particular look I'm getting from the stock, and the fact that it looks more like marker than watercolor is thrilling to me. So don't worry.... I don't *want* it to look like watercolor XD
A few people also told me that the background had taken over my last piece, so I left this one more subdued and quiet. It looks better in the original, I am afraid. Also, that my technique was too light on the last one, so I worked to put more color into the figure.
Do werewolves count as anthros? I guess they are kind of, but I see them as more of a fantasy beast than a 'furry'.
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I just can't help but always frown a bit at most depictions of werewolves. Werewolves are always depicted as mindless killing machines, occasionally even demonic in nature and more akin to demon possession than anything else. To me, that reflects on an outdated and biased view of wolves in general; the view that they're nothing more than killers that "deserve" to be hunted to extinction by humans. The truth of the matter is there's only been a single non-rabid wolf attack of a human in history. Wolves tend to avoid humans. They know full well, or at least have been genetically selected for this response, that a human will normally kill them on sight.
Bottom line, it makes me shake my head when people think that becoming part wolf would make a human more of a killer. Heck, it might make them LESS of one.
Anyway, rambling. Great picture.