Commission Wild-Wolf

Here's the commission I did for Wild-Wolf.

Though the pose and the character design are pretty much standard, it was actually quite a bit of work and a little fight to get it ready: At first every time I tried to sketch it, it came out wrong, and when it had finally worked, it was hard to motivate myself for the rest, as it was nothing "revolutionary", which often makes doing it more interesting.

I had to redo the tattoos multiple times, because they looked totally wrong - I'm *absolutely* no tattoo artist, have never been and will never be - but in the end I think they came out okay. There is quite some work in them. I took inspiration from various maori tattoos I found on flickr & google images; I'm sure there is some symbolism behind that actually, and I got it totally wrong the way I did it, but researching that would've been much too much work. But still, at least he got his maori-*style* tattoos.

The shoulders were done so narrow deliberately: Wild-Wolf wanted an Anthro that was quite close to actual animal anatomy, meaning shorter hind legs, "real" front paws, etc., and to strengthen that look I gave him the deep-but-narrow chest and shoulders.

Apart from that... Background wasn't commissioned, but I felt like doing at least a simple one.

Fullview is healthy here, best the one linked from the "download button, which is about 2.5k x 3.5k px - in this case with a watermark, but that's the only way to make it fair for the commissioner. I just want you to be able to see the detail.
It's uploaded 'zipped' though, because on dA unfortunately it's not possible to upload two different versions in one deviation.

Please no nitpicking criticism here, or I might explode , general critique is very welcome, though, as always.