This is my rendition of Kage, a character of  mara-san He is my half of an art trade with her, if you didn't already get that from the title, lol. My reference for him was http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2116905/ if you want to see. I actually redrew him quite a few times before settling on this...it's a much more simple pose than many of the others I have sketched out, but I thought it was the best. I usually draw females, so this was the first one that I thought was masculine enough....I tried drawing him with different clothes, but I thought the loincloth was sort of....primal......I thought since he was a wolf, I wanted something primal and masculine. I know the pose is close to the original, and that was entirely unintentional....this just happened to be my favorite out of the lot. I wasn't sure if the markings on his arm were important, so I added them because I thought they looked really cool.........

If you want, you should totally check out what  mara-san drew for me, the sketch anyway, here it is so far: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2408654 She's a really great artist, you should totally look at the rest of her gallery as well.