I’ve had this idea for a while of making foliage from deformed spheres and grease pencil. And so I kept this goal in mind as I sculpted, wanting the legs at that angle to read as three tree trunks. My vision was for the scene to start at an angle that would trick the viewer into thinking these were just trees on a hill, and then it would turn and reveal that it’s a wolf with a tree tail. The bottom right window is looking through my main camera, and this is the view at the start of the illustration. I always add extra views of my scene – the top right window is looking through a second camera with a scale value of -1 on the X axis, so that I could keep in mind how my piece looks mirrored – flipping your canvas is a helpful trick for drawing and I wanted to use that here!
In fact, looking back, I added too much detail to the fur of the neck. I focus on big shapes, as detail will be drawn on top with grease pencil. I used the snakehook tool and would hold shift to occasionally smooth out areas. My sculpting process is constantly changing, but for this piece all the meshes started as spheres and I sculpted using dynamic topology. So in addition to recreating this piece in 3D with grease pencil, I also used dozens of reference images to try to get a more realistic tree wolf. I’m still very proud of it, but since then I’ve studied animal anatomy a lot more closely and… well, let’s just say I can see how much I didn’t know at the time. I made this illustration at the start of 2019: I have a long history of Red Riding Hood retellings – they’re all different, but for some reason they always involve a giant tree wolf.
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