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soyrwoo — Deru Concept- Redline?
Published: 2011-03-25 00:17:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 601; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 30
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This here's a dog.Notnotnot a wolf.
It's meant to be something of a standard for a ficticious, "all-around," hardy, working dog breed. It lives primarily in northern regions and should be able to herd livestock, guard property, track game, and survive on its own, if necessary.
Critique/redline for either the anatomical or practical aspects would be great!
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A few of my characters are wolfdogs, so I figured it would be best to design the dog before the characters. I aimed for a sort of shepherd-spitz-malamute-pitbull-wolf-elkhound... thing... with a dash of the real-life Balto.
Turns out that AKC standards won't help at all; the best sled dogs are mixed breeds (like Balto! Except his owner wasn't a fan of his body type and castrated him. Oh, well.) and the majority of breed standard-meeting purebreds are near-useless in practice. On top of that, many of the breed histories are partially falsified. Not helpful at all, that.
The front view is quite a bit of a fail and the construction doodles are all over. I hope they aren't too distracting.
Long description is long. I apologize if you read it all
