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- I first began by combining 2 textures that I liked over on Unsplash [x and x] and drew over that - Added bits of shading/value via a multiply layer but largely tried to eyeball colors for the markings; then I continued to build up the lights and darks while referencing a bunch of photos of wolves and deer trying to combine their features the best I could - I got tired of working on the wolfdeer so I decided to try to do a slanted frame to crop out the body which I hadn't rendered as well and to add interest - Played around with mosaic and blurring effects on/around the piece - Exported the piece as a JPEG. This does not sound "experimental" on paper, but I've always exported my art as a PNG due to its lossless compression scheme, and I wanted to incorporate JPEG noise to add more texture to the piece here, so I messed with CSP export settings (going from 2000x2000 -> 1000x1000 size and lowered the quality from 100% to 33%)