Wolves of Avalar Poster

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This is, I guess also a part of your birthday present! Happy Birthday Crystal!

SO YES!!!
DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!!!

I PRESENT TO YOU,

WOLVES OF AVALAR!!

Wolves of Avalar is a book, once comic [link] and also once rp on the sporum, by Crystal [Dralion97].
Shortly after Making it into a comic, she had asked me a favour. Come up with wolves for an entire clan. Shadow Legion [link] so most of the wolves she's done were originally my idea. Check the desc. on her wolves to find out what ones are which. Soon after I said I'd go and make a big picture of some of the characters of WoA. That is where my the unfinished one comes in. On my photobucket account I uploaded a W.I.P. to show Crystal. When I asked for the main characters... she left out 2 important ones... Crysta and Scar, which i had actually drawn in and coloured. However, when she didn't mention these i erased the colours and changed them to Halley and Bandit... damn you Crystal. After realising I had to either draw Crysta and Scar all over again, or remove Haley and Bandit and then draw Scar and Crysta... again anyways, I kinda abandoned the picture for about 5 months.

Recently, I found it in my files and I was like, "OMG! Gotta finish this!" no i did not forget that i had to redo Crysta and Scar... and that was a pain. However, I made it even more of a job for me since I decided... "OK SCRAP IT ALL!" and deleted all the lineart, and colouring.... and re-did the entire thing. Now, I'm SOOO glad I did.

So onto the wolves
The two back wolves, are Midnight[link] and Malarsi [link] the Leader and Deputy of Shadow Legion [link]
From left to right in the front it is;
Takaza [link] - Takaza is my character I originally made especially for WoA and agreed when Crystal added him into the book and comic. That was fine. I was also VERY surprised to find that Takaza had become such a big wolf character of mine, not just participating in the comic/book but 1 or two more rps and even as my wolf on WolfQuest. And if any of you have played Perfect World, I also named my character Takaza. lol.
Takaza is a fighter at heart, with a cruel past and a dangerous hatred towards humans. However, if the situation does not include humans, he rarely makes rash decisions and thinks things through if there is time. If not, he does a "Scar" and leaps into battle first.
Halley [link] - Halley was, as I said above the one who originally replaced Crysta in the picture. However, her new pose is a hell of a lot better, and suits her very well. Halley is the fun loving Border Collie whose been good friends with Crystal for a long time, and personally invited to join the clan as well.
Crysta - AHAH! ONE OF TWO TRICKSTERS THAT STUFFED UP MY PICTURE!!!! GRAAH!!! Crysta is a calmer wolf, unlike her brother, Scar.
Crystal [link] - Alright, the one an only CRYSTAL!!! Dralion used her in many roleplays - or at least her name - and is why I now call her Crystal. Lol. Leader of the Snow Legion [link] Crystal has a dark secret that she wishes never came to be.
Scar - WHOOPY!! THE BIG GROWLY WOLF OF THE PACK! Scar's the other who stuffed up my pic.
Like I said about Crysta, Scar's the "evil one" of them and prefers "Attack first, ask questions later".
Bandit [link] [sorry, its the only one ive got of his new design] - Bandit is the second of my wolves used in her book/comic. But I didn't mind... till she said he had a mate.. and then things started getting weirder and weirder..... But im not going into detail, so there
Bandit, although his fighter spirit, deadly appearance with his sabre fangs, and incredible speed and agility - much like Takaza - he often uses his brain before jumping to a conclusion - which is something I'm sure Scar would do.

Further into the details of the pic:
I used a new technique in shading the picture this time. I was browsing dA for some tuts and came across Thaz's gradient tutorial. Thanks a bunch man, I made some use out of it! However, it does take a hell of a lot longer on bigger pics. Even when you don't want as much detail as Thaz X)
OH! OH! OH!!!!!

CHALLENGE!!!!

There is something in the sky!
But what?
First person to get this right will get a journal feature :3 in my next 3 journal entries

Sorry Crystal, I just couldn't help but put it in. I'll remove it if you want. But you'll have to work out what it is first >:3
Also, I didn't know if Midnight and Malarsi's eyes actually glowed but it looked kewl anyways, so I left it. Told ya I'd add a baddie

Extras:
I put Takaza's blade in his mouth, instead of the sheath this time as well.
Scar and Crysta have their chains/necklaces/whatever.
Crystal has the jade that you have placed onto her new ref. So it was only right to add it into the pic.
Scar has his... scars... XD

Stats:
Time Taken: Not including breaks - 3-5 days
Program used: Photoshop CS4
Equipment used: Wacom Intuos 4 Pen Tablet
References: All have been listed in the wolf section. Crysta and Scar's reference must have been removed - however it's saved on my computer.
Thaz's gradient tutorial
Several background pics.
Inspiration: Obv. WoA.
Extra: I was listening to Fireflies while finishing this. Might add to it's finished touches kinda thing.... lol.

Crystal, Crysta, Scar, Midnight, Halley, Malarsi and Wolves of Avalar's RP, Book, Comic and etc. is © to Crystal please do not steal ANY of it's content. We haz ninja's guarding property >:3
Picture, Takaza, Bandit and etc. is © by me

This is officially the most I've EVER typed for a single picture.

Crystal this is a note to you, if your comic/book get's big enough publicity, I'll be happy to sell this as a poster or for you to use it on the web you were planning to make.... lol