Rudy lives in a small, rural town with his Master, whom has no other pets. He lives for his Master, and is everything from a guard dog to a friend to him. However, he finds that sometimes, he longs to climb the highest mountains, and explore the vast fields that he has heard about from the other dogs of the town. Little does Rudy know, that he is actually part wolf, and the part that yearns for adventure is the blood of his wild ancestors.
The processed used in creating this character all started with an idea. A small, faint, vague idea of doing something with a wolf. I started in Adobe Photoshop, with a Wacom tablet, and a bright blue brush at about 20% opacity. Then I began to sketch. At first, I wasn't sure what I was going to do for a pose or facial expression, and they just came to me as I sketched. As I finished sketching, I created a new layer, turned my paintbrust black and 100% Opacity and traced my sketch on the new layer. From there, I saved it, and then took the file into Adobe Illustrator. Using the pencil tool, on a new layer, I traced the lineart from Photoshop, and used Illustrator's smooth tool to help smooth out the new lineart. When that was all finished, the file went back into Photoshop; the lineart now had a transparent background, and it was time to color. I started by clicking on the spaces I wanted to color on the 'lineart' layer, and then moved to the 'color' layer below that, and used the paint bucket to fill in the color. After all that was done, I went back around the edges of the lineart with a paintbrush of the correct color to fill in any extra white spaces that may have occured.
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