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[egypturnash]

I didn't get a chance to fool with it too much more on the way home. Packed busses. I'm going to end up blowing this rough up and going in to detail it, I think. Still needs one more wolf in the back of the circle, half-obscured by the tree, and some unification of the perspective...

Their names, from alpha to omega, are:

• Rick (Lurks-In-Shadows)
  
• Colette (Walks-With-Grace)
  
• Eduardo (Marrowsucker)
  
• Maria (Touch-The-Sky)
  
• Sue (Tinypaws)
  
• Margurite (Hunts-The-Day)
  
• Gunter (M. C. Floofytail)
  
• Caroline (Eats-Dead-Pigeons)
  
• Max (Dives-In-Dumpsters)
  

...or at least they are until I come up with something funnier. Not that it will matter for anything but layer naming. The victim is named Sarah. Her fate is unclear, but will not be pleasant; the pack's agenda for the night may involve robbery, rape, murder, and/or a meal.

Also, the little island of green with a sad tree in it is inspired by a parking lot I regularly cut across on my way to the grocery store.

I was going to scan a year-old take on the same basic idea, but upon digging it out of the old sketchbook, I decided it was too crappy to share. Sorry, kamenkyote!

Two people unfriended me between the time I last looked at LJ while slacking at work a bit, and the time I got home. I can't help but wonder if it's due to my snide dissection of the roots of noble werewolf art. Ah well.

Comments

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Ok, now I'm really curious what loup-garou would look like in your more cyberpunk/noir style. :"D Any chance of that, or am I really pushing it now?

I like the centrtal figure the most, the sense of movement in lack of detail in the circle, but like the one figure outside the circle the least (he looks a little demonish). I'd love to see it finished. It's already got that hint of Peggy-keenness. :"D

-T'

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

There's going to be a variety of states of human/wolf in the pack, to give an impression of shifting that's one of the things I always find completely lacking in most Noble Werewolf art. There'll be more detail on the circling pack once I pull out some reference and blow it up to have more room to work in! And dramatic light; this is a moonlit parking lot, with some artificial light, too.

Also, the circling pack in different shapes is partially a nod to M.C. Escher. In case you were wondering. A lot of his drawings had a sort of sense of movement achieved by showing the same creature in several positions in the same image, that really countered his static, detailed posing in an interesting way.

I concur that the guy crouching outside the circle (on a car hood, right now) needs work. He's supposed to be somewhere closer to the human end of things, and possibly the alpha male: watching the conclusion of the hunt, enjoying the prey's fear, waiting for just the right moment to give the order to end it. However it may end.

[protocat.livejournal.com]

I almost removed you in a fit of jealousy over your new icon. But instead, I just made one for myself and ripped you off. =/

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

HAIR THIEFT! PINK HAIR IS © MEEEEEE!

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

BEST BAMTAN EVAR

[adequatemagic.livejournal.com]

TWO PEOPLE ENTER
ONE PERSON LEAVES
WITH PINK HAIR

[electricgecko.livejournal.com]

I just had a funny little deja-vu slash mental tangent spin off of this.

Back in high school, we had a central courtyard that served as a general meeting place (as well as lunching grounds, space for rallies, and so on). There were, as I recall, two trees in square concrete planter areas off to either side of the yard, and they looked a lot like the tree you have drawn here. Similar shape, similar height, and so on. Even something about the way you've mapped out the ground reminds me of that courtyard... since it was paved with large concrete squares.

Anyway, this makes me want to caption your image as "the perils of high school life," or something to that effect. I don't know why a pack of wolves would've gotten loose on Lowell's grounds, but I suppose senior pranks do get ever-more odd as the years tick by...

[wolphyn.livejournal.com]

If she were to name it that, it might serve as a metaphor for those of us who've found ourselves within that closing circle. I found my peers to be very much like wolves in nearly every way but the noble bit. :P

Incidentally, Peggy, this depiction of that aspect makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Because it's uncommon and interesting, I mean.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I have no name for this drawing yet. It's just 'that werewolf picture' to me. I shall have to be careful in my titling to leave it open for metaphors.

Strange to think that a fairly traditional depiction of werewolves can actually be seen as 'uncommon'. The only thing really strikingly different from the usual version is that they're in the city, instead of the country, and that they're actually hunting like wolves do. And humans, for that matter. We're both pack animals.

<3!

[maui.livejournal.com]

Marrowsucker?

M. C. FLOOFYTAIL?

Peggy, marry me! Have my children! XD

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I can't help but wonder if it's due to my snide dissection of the roots of noble werewolf art.

BEST WERWLOF EVAR

[paka.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I'm still on the Friends list. I used to like Noble Werewolf Art, until everyone started doing it.

Oddly enough, all the names would be completely appropriate for Werewolf the Apocalypse Garou.

[adequatemagic.livejournal.com]

Just an aside, and a wierd one...

check out Prachett's 'The Fifth Elephant' for an interesting 'annoy the wolven fandom' take on werewolves. And also a lot of stuff on dwarves, vampires, people named 'Igor'... and fat. Lots of fat.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

"Margurite (Hunts-The-Day)"

Urrr, that should be "Marguerite", which, incidentally, means "daisy" in French.
I get the feeling she likes to pick flowers, when she's not rending flesh...

"Gunter (M. C. Floofytail)"

Yeah, I know, I'm French, not German, but shouldn't that be "Gunther"?
Argh, I need to lighten up. But I do this for a living!
If I wasn't here, this stupid Joker's Wild cellphone game would tell you that the
answer to "in what movie did Harrison play a kick-ass President" is "Diana Ross".

"I can't help but wonder if it's due to my snide dissection of the roots of noble werewolf art."

Dear lord, I hope so!

DJ Pointy-Ears, over and out.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I thought I was spelling her name wrong.

As to Gunter/Gunther, I went with the funnier spelling. I suspect "Gunter" was originally named "Harold", and has chosen a new name after getting into Germanic industrial music.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

All I can think of when I see this is several really deep desturbing voices (The kind that kinda taunt me when I pretend to have scary dreams) chanting "Ring around the Possies..."

Then again, maybe I'm just desturbed. I blame terrorism... or Bush... or something...

[rainwing.livejournal.com]

All the thought you've put into this made me think you had some sort of graphic novelty in mind. Or if not you've got the makings of a damn fine storytelling illustration.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Less thought than it looks. The names for the pack are a throwaway detail that I did to make me laugh; this drawing is going to be very dark and nasty, and needs humor embedded in its making. Not quite as nasty as the abandoned drawing a year ago with a similar theme; that one had a stronger undercurrent of possible rape a few minutes later.