It seems like all of the resources I can easily find online for identifying wolves vs dogs are either massive and difficult to understand without prior knowledge of the subject, or extremely bare-bones and miss a lot of key information. I tried to hit a comfortable middle-ground. (sorry if itâs a little wordy)
This tutorial is made as a reference for drawing, so everything but purely visual differences between dogs and wolves have been left out.
Iâve been wanting to make this for a while now, so Iâm glad I finally sat down and did it!
**EDIT**
When it comes to the section on wolfdogs, please take it with a grain of salt. With something as complicated as genetics, they are of course, not going to be as simple as I make it seem. What features different levels of content can display, and even which percentages designate which levels of content are often hotly debated within the wolfdog community. At this point Iâve elected not to change the image set itself because:
a. itâs a huge pain in the ass
b. this is a tutorial for beginning artists. Itâs meant to be a hugely simplified version of the topic, and Iâve stated clearly that it is NOT to be used in real-world identification.
((Huge thanks to yourdogisnotawolf. whoâs blog inspired me to make this and for digging up that amazing picture of the wolf/lab mix))
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