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Autumn Lovers

by Graveycat thembo from ohio

14 years ago

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(F5 For a brighter pic! it was so gray :I)

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Oh hey I drew ferals! A pretty pair of wolves, a Gray Timber and a Red Wolf, happy to see each other. Though the male seems to be a little surprised! But happy of course! :D

Coloring took way, wayyy longer than I expected, and I worked on it daily for about a week. Goes to show I'm really used to doing aceo-sized watercolors, but bigger ones boggle my mind a little! Ha! pretty much 100% watercolor, with a tiny bit of white ink for the fur. I uhh, didn't know how to do a shadow under them, or detail the leaves. Forgive that. My art is more whimsy than realistic, I wasn't going for full realism!

Always a pleasure to draw for, this is for

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Category Sub-Category Species Resolution File Size Artwork (Traditional) Animal related (non-anthro) Wolf 1053 x 765 611.9 kB

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wolves wolf gray red natural trees bark woods nature fall autumn october love feral happy playful plants furry fluffy orange u_gravewalker c_artwork_traditional t_animal_related_non_anthro s_wolf

meowgabyte ~jaslyn

Hobby Artist

14 years ago

This is awesome! It's really soft and warm. The texture in the watercolor feels really nice to look at. You're not bad at doing quads at all :) I especially like the extra work you put into the background. Everything is so colorful :D

Graveycat ~gravewalker

thembo from ohio

14 years ago

It's weird because I didn't intend to, but when Sye asked for a fall theme, I was like OH YEAH <3 Awh thanks! I don't really have any feral characters so I don't get to draw them as much as I'd like!

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Graveycat ~gravewalker

thembo from ohio

14 years ago

Finally done! Ahh I wish it scanned as well as the original looks ;;

eris ~eris

Photographer

14 years ago

I have next to no experience with watercolors, so take this with a grain of salt, but wouldn't applying a very watered down darker color to the leaves under them work to create a simple shadow effect, or would it make the other colors bleed? The piece is beautiful as is, but adding shadows would definitely make the characters feel more like they are a part of the scenery. The leaves themselves aren't really an important part of the composition and I think it's entirely appropriate that they are merely hinted at rather than being rendered in excruciating detail. C:

A dark red-brown seems to work best for the shadows with this color palette, and I hope you don't mind that I took the liberty of applying a quick and dirty test shadow in Potatoshop to demonstrate. I'll delete it once you've seen it. http://imgur.com/v6u7n

(and in case there's any doubt, I really do like this piece! I hope you're down with critique <3)

Graveycat ~gravewalker

thembo from ohio

14 years ago

It's weird because I sorta started to try to make it darker but watercolors love love love bleeding into each other even when dry. I guess I was afraid to try any more after the bit by the green shrub thing became blotchy. I don't mind critique though, so no worries there! As long as it's helpful and it is! :) I can certainly learn from this, There's gotta be a way to layer it somehow, auughh painting! XD haha!

Thanks so much for the comment! I do appreciate it!

eris ~eris

Photographer

14 years ago

Yeah, I had a feeling bleeding might be an issue. Watercolors are frustrating! I don't know how you do it! :D

IVES ~ives

Art Whore

14 years ago

This is so beautiful! I have always admired your amazing skill to paint and draw such detailed traditional pieces. Gravey, you are my fav and this piece has truly got me excited about the Autumn months.