Draw Anime Wolves
Some wolves are more stylized than others but using the principles of anime, it is possible to draw a simple wolf that incorporates your style along with having the proper anatomy.
Steps
- Find a reference. Finding a reference is useful because this will help guide you on the correct form, anatomy, and basic wolf features.
- Draw the 'form sketch'. Prepare the wolf in ovals for bulk muscle, lines for sheer bone, keeping it on the light side. Try not to overdose your drawing with multiple bones and such.
- Begin to add shape. Draw a nose starting to emerge out of the oval of the head of the wolf you've drawn beforehand, and bumps (paws) on the bottoms of the feet. At this point you can even go as far as dividing up toes. This will tend to look awkward if your anatomy structure is wrong, in which case you will need to edit it so it looks right. This is where references come in handy.
- Add action detail to the figure. If the animal is snarling, begin to add elements to depict this. For hair detail, you can tilt your pencil at an angle, and then began adding streaks of nice lines that mimic fur. Some lines darker in areas where shade is present.
- Erase your 'draft'. Erase all the stray marks you added before, that are no longer needed.
- Add shading, fur and other details. Go wild! Use reference images to help with drawing the fur in particular, since it usually grows in particular directions around each body part.
- After inking, you should have a finished product now. This is only optional. A fairly bland example with no shading is here, however it is a good guide to how most people may prefer their sketch.
- Add color if you'd like now. Even though it's a wolf you could use colors like blues and greens to add shading, since it is an anime wolf after all.
- Finished.
Tips
- Get friends to help.
- Have fun.
