Sketches for Wolf and beginning to computerize

Been working on this arctic wolf character for our game, started off with some minor sketching to get the proportion looking OK, it's hard to do with a mouse so I need something hand drawn to reference when making the digital image. Here's what I started with:

Surprising it wasn't long before I got this, once I did though I scanned the document onto the computer and cut out the biggest body on the page and the lovely head without eyes which I must say I am very proud of. I think I really managed to represent the physical features of the wolf head quite nicely. After a long practice in Photoshop - trying to develop the head using Michael's art style (which we are using for this game), I managed to ink up the head. Looks like:

As you can see, it is in it's early stages. It still needs its detail colouring before I can stick him into flash to render an animation.

Also for practice I knocked up this polar bear which actually looks pretty cool. May return to it later...