Something about this story gets me. I think it may be the most well known fairy tale of all, and it’s certainly firmly ingrained into American pop-culture. For these, I started with a ton of photographic reference for the trees and the wolf coloring. I took those references, and some original photography of my daughter, and my dog Manson, who is a chow-chow and very wolf like in her appearance, and “collaged” it all in photoshop, printed the collage and did a quick series of sketches. Then I scanned the sketches in and placed them in Illustrator. I didn’t bother with a live trace because in my experience, live trace never ever does what I want it to. Instead, I used the Brian Denham method with the pencil tool, and knocked out what I think are some nice finished pieces. These were drawn to be printed in a large format, so there is a little bit of detail/quality loss on the web versions, but all in all I think that they’re good enough to post. Click the image to enlarge.

UPDATE: I want to extend my warmest regards to the CCBC MD faculty, who awarded me with the honor of “Best in Show”, in the Digital Illustration category at the annual end of semester digital arts awards ceremony. Specifically, the winning piece was “Wolf Attacks” (the color one). Thank you all for the honor. Moving forward, I would like to be addressed as the “Award Winning” CDowd. Thank you. ;-)