2013

Commissioned by arcanafox

I almost had a near disaster with this one...the piece of wood just did not seem to want to accept any color so it took a couple layers but I think I finally got it to my liking =)
The next big issue was...a black fox!
WHY DO ALL THE AWESOME CHARACTERS INVOLVE SO MUCH BLACK!!!!!
It made approaching this kinda interesting. At first I tried to do my shading, then add my textured fur but she just was just not looking right, the texturing left her too shiny (the light hitting the raised pieces of the scorched wood).
So after all that work, I took my shader and darkened most of her, and almost relief-engraved her a bit by burning very dark/deep to give that depth in the areas that needed it most.
I am not well practiced in so much black on a character with burning yet, so...hopefully she likes it!!! I am actually most proud of the backside XD I like the font I found (dafont.com -best font site EVER!!) and the shape of the tail. Lets hope she likes it too!!!

This is a wood burning. The color was added using the following watercolor pencils: Grass Green, Spring Green, Pink, and Mulberry. The Glittery Green was added using a Gelly Roll Stardust gel pen. Everything else, the "black" is the natural color of the wood after being burnt. All the shading beneath the color was done with the burner as well =)

Interested in getting something similar? Commission info Here!