This is amazing, It looks so real :3

Beautiful piece!

She is beautiful. =]
I love the feather hair-piece.

Awsome

wow the fur must have taken a looot of job. O.o Lovely!

That nose is photographic!

Wow this is gorgeous! Is it an Iberian wolf by any chance, because if not, it looks like one (which is a good thing!)

Well, that's some great work!

beautiful detailing

very nice... someone you know?
that would be really sharp on a t-shirt

That is absolutely beautiful.

That is beautiful! I love the eyes

ooo i absolutely have to commission you something like that o.o How much you charge for a similar one with diffrent colors? (Send me a note if you want)

She is quite the pretty one. Lovely work on the luminous back-lit fur and around the ears. Her eyes are sparkling <3

She's gorgeous. Your ability is unbelievable!!!

I want this shirt now.

Looks amazing! I love the fur detail, the lighting, and those eyes really stand out. Really lovely work!

Omg, that is amazing!

The EYES! Holy crap they're powerful! For second I thought this was a photograph!

Amazing work!!!

Very beautiful! I love the color of the eyes. And such detail! Amazing job :)

Gorgeous work as always I'm glad you took the time to do something for yourself, you deserve it ;3

Amagaaawd! HAHA i thought it was real at first, untill I read the comments. Unbelieveable Work!

She looks like a piece of Brookestone Jewelry. :)

I can't even believe you drew this... it looks more like a photo O.O

Its draw, believe me. My hand still aches to prove it x__x

i believe you its just.... so amazing ^.^

:3 Thankies.

Wow, this is amazing!

Will the t shirt this is going on be for sale anywhere?

I may add this image to a cafepress shop, but I was just gunna make a iron on transfer for my shirt :B

I'd buy one if you do put it on cafepress. It's hard to find nice wolf shirts that aren't cheesy looking.

holy shit beautiful work Dark :)

For once, the fav/view ratio is actually correct and as it should be (as of now, ~50%).

Question though: Did you do the hairs each by hand? Did you use reference?

As I probably stated before, you have strong skill in showing color and lighting. Thanks for sharing!

Encouraging, inspirational, encouraging...

I do use references, and I do draw each individual hair detail. Undercoat is done with a brush that I made, but other than that I don't use fur brushes.

Very nice! Your hard work shows! Cannot wait to see what you'll do next. Keep it up! :)

AMAZING!!!

seriously, this is really beautiful. Keep up the fantastic work!

Beautiful, vibrant colors! And good god the fur is amazingly well drawn! Wow *u*

:3 Thank you.

this is ... simply ... awesome!!
well actually I always wondered why you don't do a bigger painting every time seeing one of your icon submissions. Those icons look outstanding enough, bright and matching colors, rich details of fur, appropriate anatomic structure, but they are still icons. Now this one is indeed a masterpiece!
really really love it.

I fully intend to do a few more of these. I like the concept, and thought of doing something of my own design more often. However, I still need to make money. X3 If only the world didn't revolve so much around it eh?

have you considered offering bigger pictures on commission? or does the idea not appeal? or have you tried it before? i am sure it would be expensive and time consuming, but i'd be surprised if you got no interest. you must surely be one of the best artists on here.

I've tried it before, but It seems to be a personal issue with keeping focused. I'm workin on that, as you can see. Trying to force myself for bigger projects. I get sidetracked pretty easily. even when doing small things, so it's hard for me to stay focused long enough to finish something this big.

If I can overcome that i'll open for larger things in the future, but at the moment i'm trying to work out some cheaper items for those wanting art from me, but not having a lot of cash on hand. :3

that makes complete sense considering how much detail goes into these pieces. even the icons. don't know how you manage it as it is.

You can tell it's a drawing because it's better than what any camera could capture.

wow this is beautiful hun

Wow! I can draw animals like this in pencil, but I have such a hard time digital :/ How do you make the fur look so real like that on the computer? Must be a really nice program you have? I think personally I spend too much time drawing hair by hair on my pictures, looks like you do something different. Whatever it is its working for you and I love it, very nice job!

I drew this on Photoshop CS5, at the size you see here. For facial detail I draw each hair by hand. On the neck and longer fur I use a special brush that I made a long time ago for a very basic undercoat, then go over it and detail by hand.

Thank you, it takes a long time, but the outcome is worth it. :3

Yes it is :) and thank you, I have GIMP, i wonder if I can pull off something that good :P

The texture/coloring on this is amazing. She looks so soft!

Nice!

loveliness!

I usually find straight-up wolf portraits extremely trashy and derivative. Something about this is just too warm and enjoyable to ignore though. I definitely agree about the eyes in particular.

simply beautiful

my amazment for your work never stops you did an outstanding job on this .... i just cant get over how real she looks

absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love this for the color and the detail, but I would love it so much more if the eyes were smaller. They are beautiful, but those big eyes are what kill the illusion of realism for me. Please don't hurt me! If you were going for a more anthropomorphic rather than realistic look, then good job. :)

I love realism, but there are also things that tend to bring out character in face that realism can't always bring out. Like a smile in something that doesn't normally smile, or slightly larger or more dramatic eyes or muscle features to aid in a character's expression.

I agree 100%. I mean hey, that's what anthropomorphism is all about. It was just my opinion that this piece didn't need the overemphasis, but that's only my opinion! :)

Wow i really love this, the detail, depth, and esp the tribal feel with the feathers ^^

LOVE it...and I'd love to have a tshirt of it too! Just beautiful! The name also attracted me, one of my dogs is named Wahya. :3

omg! So realistic wolf, holly shit I love it so much

Wow! Its just so absolutely stunning! The amount of detail you have put into it is just so incredible, and it looks so realistic!

WOAH! AMAZING! F***ING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

how did i miss this submission? it's absolutely fantastic. you really do have amazing talent. lovely combination or realism and character. and really nice job on like the ears and how they are lit.

Love it! Reminds me of my totem/spirit guide.

Damn. You really know how to see.

Looks like something you might find from Lennox or the Franklin Mint.

AMAZING!
the most awesome art that I have see in FA

I love how you do short fur. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get that effect digitally!

thats just beautiful ^^

She is quite amazing. :)

Stunning!

There are simply no words. o.o <3

This is so beautiful, your such an amaizing digital painter.. I'm in awe

Absolutely amazing! Hope you don't mind, but I had to make her the background on my PC. If this pic gets put on a tee, I just may have to buy it.

Speaking as someone who used to raise wolves, you did an excellent job capturing the emotion in her eyes and the regal attitude in her body language. Amazing talent and I look forward to seeing more of your work.

amazing

BEAUTIFUL

Holy shit, it's AMAZING!!!

amazing detail and lighteffects
cant find much failplaced shadows....

Oh wow. Sometimes its just so amazing what a person can create. Just a glance had me thinking I was looking at an actual photograph and then I glanced back and realized just how amazingly detailed this is. Your art is absolutely beauitful. The expression and eyes give the look that there's an intense back story or that its worrying about something, or maybe thats just me looking too deep into this.

HOW THE HELL IS ANYBODY THIS TALENTED?!?!?! It is a shame that commissions are closed right now, because I would be willing to pay hundreds in month or two for a wallpaper-sized picture like this. You are easily the most talented, creative, and skilled artist on this site, at least in my opinion.

...Holy shit! I so thought this was just a Photoshopped photo. Serious skills right here.

1 word....breatheless....

This picture left me breatheless for 10 seconds, I swear to god.

Simply, beautiful. I can't find the words to describe this. It literaly just took my words, and scrambled them allover the world. So right now, i'm just speechless.

Beautiful work buddy. Simply beautiful :,)

That looks so awesome fully detailed so amazing great job I love it :)

for a seecond i though this was a cropped photo.

Far from perfect, but thanks for the compliment. A lot of work goes into these.

There's always room to improve. There is no top, ever. :3

Theres a top? I never saw an artist that's hit any top, really. There is always room to move around and improve. :D

Also,,, you sound discouraged. Don't let someone else's art dictate your own personal goals on where you art is, could or should be, whether in the past, present or future.

:3 Thanks.

Yeah, I think every artist, any kind of artist~ music, theater, drawing, painting, sculpting~ all of them, at some point in their life, look at someone else's work and compare themselves to that and see something better than they themselves have created. However, depending on how that person looks at it, it can either leave room for them to improve, or mope about it and put themselves down, and stop trying... which the latter, (in my opinion) is pretty stupid.

Besides.. If you want to become famous and not do drugs or drink a lot, why not do it? Its just a matter of what you want to do, not what everyone else has done... Just because everyone else is jumping off bridges, doesn't mean you gotta do it eh?

Absolutely stunning!
I don't suppose you do livestreaming at all so I could possibly watch and learn from you?

I've tried and tried, but there's no way to do it with my current computer. Just not enough ram to handle photoshop and livestream-ustream-watchtail.. any of them. >:

My bro was supposed to get me more ram, but...that didn't pan out. :/

that's a shame. ^^;
I'll just have to try and learn from the finished images then (:

How long does it take for you to finish a pic like this roughly? when i first saw the thumbnail i thought it was a photo, it's so perfect looking!

This one took about 10 hours or something.

wow O.O i was half expecting at least 20 hours for something magnificent, good work!

I wish i could Do this much detail, I cant even make detailed fur o3o the only think i can make detailed are eyes and thats it..

But Its VERY Gorgeous!!!

Dammit. I can't fave this again. Wait. I CAN.

*unfaves. Faves*

There. Better. A picture as beautiful as this is worth it.

This looks.. So familiar.. I printed something like this out to sketch years ago

Well its certainly not the first wolf head on a mostly black canvas that's ever been drawn.
I'd like to hope this one is at least somewhat unique though. :3

The one I had also had an ear feather.

o_O Really?

The print out should still be in my sketchbook..

Yes, I have it. It isn't the same but very similar. The stamp on it says "Art © Amber Hill 2006" though.

Hmmm? -Rummages through her gallery to have a peek-

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1105824/ You mean this one? There are a few similarities.
Then again wolves with feather accessories are quite a popular subject. :3

Yes, that's the one. I wasn't aware that was her artwork though. I wasn't on FA the time I found the picture, just by google or something.

Your art is phenominal.

...Jesus H, dude...


+ watch.

I wish I had the skills and patience to make art as beautiful as this.

woow looks like my fursona