Sing the Sorrow

MaKayla Songer
Sing the Sorrow by MaKayla Songer

Sing the Sorrow

This was one of the first pencil drawings I’ve done that wasn’t shaded with a blending stick. (I did this one before ‘Majesty.’) I’m really fond of it, even though it is rather simple. It had been a long time since I’d done a picture of a howling wolf, and if you were to go through my old sketchbooks and notebooks you would inevitably find dozens of them, but they are all very old and – honestly – not very good. I was happy to have actually done one worth showing.

Pencil on 8.5×11 sketchbook paper. Original Available.

Sing the Sorrow belongs to the following groups:

Animal Kingdom and AW Welcome Center
  • TrEaSuReDiMaGeS

    TrEaSuReDiMaGeS, 5 months ago

    Gorgeous work of ART!! :-)

  • Ken Boxsell

    Ken Boxsell, 5 months ago

    Amazing work MaKayla

  • Cynthia Adams

    Cynthia Adams, 5 months ago

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with this..it’s well thought out and beautifully drawn..you have quite a talent honey..wonderful work..wish I could draw wolves!!

  • Ginger Lovellette

    Ginger Lovellette, 5 months ago

    Superb, Lashana! Wonderful work!

  • MaKayla Songer

    MaKayla Songer in reply to Cynthia Adams’s comment, 5 months ago

    Thank you very much! :D Your landscapes are so beautiful; I’m sure you paint a marvelous wolf if you tried!

  • Daniella

    Daniella, 4 months ago

    beautiful drawing , l can hear him howling it’s so life like

  • MaKayla Songer

    MaKayla Songer in reply to Daniella’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanks! :D

  • Mui-Ling Teh

    Mui-Ling Teh, 4 months ago

    This is very lovely. It’s probably better that you didn’t use a blending stick to show the detailed texture of the fur; especially to portray the difference between the long strands on the body and the short ones on the snout. Also love the fine strokes you did around the closed eye.

  • MaKayla Songer

    MaKayla Songer in reply to Mui-Ling Teh’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thank you very much! :D Yes, I had just started experimenting with rendering long fur in pencil when I did this. I actually did one other wolf drawing in this style before this one. (It was the upper body of a leaping wolf. It was one of the ONLY drawings I’ve ever sold without scanning it first. :( ) But before that, I’d practically ALWAYS used a blending stick. (Granted most of those were horses, all of which had very short fur.)

  • midnightdreamer

    midnightdreamer, 6 days ago

    wow, this is beautiful, very good pencil work my friend!
    Peace,
    Leah ♥

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