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Reference sheet and random sketches for Darkmane The Werewolf.

So where did Darkmane The Werewolf come from?

It all started during the final year of 6th form, i wanted to dress as something scary and scare the lower years. I chose to dress as a werewolf, got a white wolf mask from Woolworths when it was still around, put on a fluffy white scarf and white coat to go with it and that was my halloween costume all set. During the fun of Halloween, i proclaimed myself "Darkmane The Werewolf" in the spur of the moment, Despite my costume being all white :?

After the day was up, one of the English teachers asked me if he could have the mask for some play or something and i let him have it, thinking i'd probably not get the chance to do this sort of thing again.

6th form ended, and i was off to uni.

Usually with my art and drawing, i would go through moments of researching and drawing a particular thing for a while. These "phrases" could last days or months and could be anything from churches, planes or machinery, animals and mythical creatures (Currently on Kelpies). When i went to Uni, i'd gotten some ways through Werewolves and started moving onto Griffins, which was when i started the Dragon, Griffin and Chimera animation =p

During University, though our course was on Games design, the first year consisted of 2d animation among other things. When i (finally) made some friends, they all seemed to have their own characters with backstories and everything. I however, had no real characters =( all mine were one off characters, only existing in a single instance and forgotten. Nameless and unmemorable =(

So i felt very much left out, i had to think of something fast! What character did i have that had a unique name?? That would be Darkmane The Werewolf. But what did he look like? Need to think fast again :fear: What was the most recent wolf like thing i was drawing? Well it turns out it was one of these [link] I'd drawn it incorrectly at the time, eventually tweeked the fangs, horns and armour and such, added a cape, another pair of eyes, a bangle on his left arm only and of course, made it a werewolf, such that i finally had my own character =p.

I used the name as my "Online-self" name since i wanted to make a DA account to watch my new friends =p I stuck with it because its more unique than Bee3000 is =( since that is (surprisingly) common apparently. I kept the name for other places so i'd easily remember and be easily identifyable by other people.

Despite being my online name, the character itself is largely neglected =( No real backstory or anything at all, hes yet another one-off character, except without a proper story, a combination of me not thinking of a proper original personality and the character being my online self meant that his personality was the same as mine =( that was all he had.

Maybe that will change one day though, with this reference, he finally has a solid, full design =p Just need a story to go with it, usually my characters are inspired by the stories i think up first, but i'll have to make an exception and do it the other way here eh? =p
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