This is a very special day, today I return to one of my passions that relaxes me a lot and that no matter how many hours I dedicate to it, for me it is nothing as long as I achieve a final result and can share it with someone, in this case with all of you, I'm talking about drawing. In this opportunity besides returning a little to what was a section in my blog where I used to draw certain creatures that are related to today's topic, some who follow me will already know what I'm talking about, it was for my total fun to be able to capture virtually through a drawing the great characters of the Pokémon series, those who are curious can see some of my works and how was the whole process.
When I found out about this community which has a great goal which is to implement one more game in the hive ecosystem, only overcoming, being risky and going up a couple of steps in terms of the flashy, until these last days I had not paid attention, but for something they say that things come at the right time, so it's time to enter the Holozing world, one that with my little knowledge about the project has already caught my attention, and it is not surprising because as I said it is inspired by old games that are part of the childhood of many, especially those of our generation.
So to commemorate my joy about this great project I decided to make a simple fan art about one of the characters, the "Fire Wolf", why this one in specific, very easy, those who are veterans of Pokémon will know that just started the game we were presented with a big decision and was the choice of the initial Pokémon, if you already know Fire Wolf and have some experience of Pokémon you will know what team I was 😂.... That's right, I always chose fire types, so the little fire wolf was my choice to make this little step by step, I hope you like it and you can join this great world of Holozing.
To start with the drawing before I should mention that in the different opportunities that I have had to make some digital illustration, I always do them in paint, previously I used a website that offered very useful tools for drawing, many options in terms of shading and other drawing tricks that help to give realism to it, but I opted for the simplest option because I had several connection problems and this gave me failures and lost all my progress 😢, so if any of you are interested in getting started in drawing and still have doubts, I serve as an example that you do not need complicated and expensive programs to draw, it is only a matter of patience and above all practice to improve the technique because like everything requires skill. Having said that now if the step by step:
First we will draw the head, in this case the drawing will only focus on the head of the creature, in other illustrations I usually use the head as a reference to then draw the body, but being a little rusty because of the time I have without drawing I decided to start small.
For me the eyes and nose are a good guide, I always start with these parts so that from them the rest is born, in this case the eyebrows, ears and finally the contour of the head.
Another tip I can give you to make your drawings look striking is to use different thicknesses with the brush, to give thin details we lower the thickness and for the outline, eyes, we will use a considerable thickness of the brush.
A curiosity about this character or rather difficulty is that it does not have normal features of a wolf, it should be noted that being a fire wolf his eyebrows will have many ripples and therefore it will be more complicated to achieve the correct shape of the head or at least look good.
Once we have correctly located each part of the body of our fire wolf, we will proceed to fill some of these parts with color. I like to do this to go detailing that such is going to be, many times until we do not see our character with color we consider that it is wrong.
Important step or rather crucial detail for our drawings to have that differential and realistic touch we must know how to use shading and lighting, I do not consider myself an expert or anything like that, but the impressive thing about this is that with small and simple details we notice how something normal takes a distinctive brightness.
When we place the shading and lighting to give it that 3d illusion, we will continue filling our creature, the remaining areas of the ear, fur and eyebrows with fire, at this point we will notice how our Fire Wolf begins to take shape.
We will also give the double color tone to the fire to give it that feeling of warmth.
To finish I decided to close with the leafy flare of fire that the wolf has on his neck, it gives that final touch so that the drawing doesn't look so simple and empty because it is only the drawing of the head of the Fire Wolf.
As with the eyebrows, I also gave a little lighting in the fire scarf, with this I come to the end of the step by step of this little fan art.
I hope you liked it and you can join this great world that is getting closer and closer to be known completely, I've just been learning about it and I regret not focusing and giving it the proper attention, but everything has its time and from today this is mine. Until another opportunity!
The text is entirely my own
drawing program used: paint
The translation was done with translator: DeepL
