#canus lupus

[2ndclassparty]

GRAY WOLF, a species who came back from the brink.

I spent a long time drawing this and trying to go with a more "realistic look" to it, because I have a lot of trouble doing a stylized animals without it losing unique features such as feather and fur coloration.

I need to get better at color work and the likes to do that, so if anyone has good recommendations let me know, please.

As for why I did such a simple pose? I was making this as part of a little birthday gift for the person who recommended drawing a Gray Wolf. I gave it a birthday hat. It was adorable.

Aside from that though, it was also trying to figure out how the hell to color its fur - their pelts are really complicated and its not just patterns but transitions between different shades! It requires a lot more technical skill than is currently available to me and it'll likely take a bit before I get that good.

Thankfully tomorrow's is a simple animal, so it's essentially a freebie.

[blackcheesygirl]

Me: *sighs sadly*

Me: *staring hard at this pic*

Me: Time to add him to the list ig🤕

The list:

[animalworld]

GRAY WOLVES Canus Lupus Julian Wolf Center With Teranga Ranch Julian, California ©Laura Quick

Magnificent animals. Very hard to photograph through chain link. Such gratitude for the fascinating information about wolf behavior from both Dana Stangel of Teranga Ranch, and the behaviorists at the Julian Wolf Center. (Top photo is a male, bottom photo is a daughter submissively greeting her mom.)

The Julian Wolf Center raises Gray Wolves and Mexican Gray Wolves for reintroduction into the wild. They work hand-in-hand with ranchers both in the US and Mexico, to teach them techniques for protecting their livestock from wolves, while sharing the same terrain. This has been surprisingly successful.

The checkered story of the wolves released into Yellowstone is here

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2016-06-14-1384 by Zweer de Bruin Via Flickr: Arctic Wolf

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By Mattias Klum