>Dat wolf face c:
Great work!

The eye looks really good! x3 It might just need to be a bit smoother. I suggest the fur being longer on the cheek area. :3

I don't really have tips with how and all that, though... I can't do detailed pics like that! xD

The only thing that sticks out to me is the eyebrow coming down and covering part of the eye. That's more a human trail and not really something canines do. I like what you've done though.

I agree, I did a version like this and without that but this is the version that was picked.

I think it does need more shading. You should really consider blocking out the colors AND lighting before beginning fur strokes. When you try to stroke first and then fill in detail after, everything is going to fall flat. Often you can't see every single strand of fur on an animal, but rather see the ones that are casting shadows, with more blended patches around. My advice is to block in color based on both shadows and fur colors, and then where all the shades begin to clash you focus on the shift of color with fur. Hard to explain I guess :x Nice job though

hmm...maybe I stroke too heavy? Every time I try blocking first then go over it all the blocking gets well, blocked out, even when i do it without brushes. That or i do it too spaced and it looks like just fur on top of patches. I definitely need to work on it more.

I'm not sure.. I don't use any special brushes or anything when I do fur. Granted i don't really do up-close detailed stuff but a regular round brush gets it done. I mostly tend to overlap the existing patches of color via fur.. so that you'd have this patch of light grey that you'd be feathering over onto the darker grey, so the borders of that light color look like fluff, and then have stray strands of the same color merging onto the dark.. and do that with every single color and they all kind of meld. I guess it's like thinking of the fur not as individual strands you must draw, but rather utilizing both empty space and line to make fur

This is turning out really good. Please keep it up! I would love to see the finished product!