This took me a full day (and tons of program crashes because of too many layers) and I'm so dang proud of it!!
It's a little older than the other artwork I've posted so far, but still worthy to be mentioned, haha.
I used a screenshot from the game WolfQuest as a reference (the bottom screenshot): WolfQuest comparisment screenshot #8
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AimForrest
oh wow, nice work! very pretty and realistic looking.