Here's a picture of Lady Calpernia in traditional Media. this was working out her look. She's a lady of court, with a bit of flounce, and bit of bounce, and is a lot smarter than she let's on. She's a Lupine, but the current court fashion is to clip and shave down the cheek ruffs to present a "more graceful" appearance, to contrast with "shaggy barbarians. Males don't do this, but may clip their ruff shorter, or into straight lines to create a neater appearance (see Magnus making his ruff geometric).
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Your anatomy and the life of your sketches never ceases to amaze me. I could tell she was a wolf in spite of the lack of floofins. I thought she might have been an Ethiopian wolf or even an Israeli wolf at first because of that, but I thought she was a wolf nonetheless. That's an interesting bit of culture you threw in there.
Wolf is wolf, look at the bones and muscles first, then add the trim package (with the MP3 player and leather seats). it all works out. Ruff trimming may change with culture/time as well so who knows,but for now they are going for th greyhound look. a Bad trim jom would make the poor woman look like a light bulb head. and if the female has a thick neck, they may not go for the full trim.
the angularity is because Lupineshave fairly heavy bones, And in some cases it may be accentuated by the shaving. Some males do that to their ruffs for a more "military" apearance, but they may do a little around the face, a little clipping to "harden the planes of the face" but that would be painstaking to maintain, instead of just "planing" the ruff a bit.
But then why would the Humans? they are in a culturally superior position with regards to the Lupines as the bringers of Civilization. They are "equal" under the eyes of the law and church, now, but it wasn't so until recently, The humans were the ones to bring civilization to the lupines, at sword point originally, when they got tired of their raiding and cattle rustling.
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