Deer Me started as a black-and-white comic, and visualizing in black-and-white is definitely not the same as visualizing in color. The colors of Jared Raul demonstrate this.

When I first designed him, I knew that I wanted Jared to be brown with light tan markings. He is an anthropomorphic wolf, but I wanted his coloring reminiscent of a German Shepherd; I may have intended for him to be a hybrid of the two. In the black-and-white comic, the brown became black and the light tan became white. I never drew him outside of the comic in his early days, so had no color reference.

When I added color to the comic, I forgot my original color plans for Jared and made him a near-black wolf with light gray markings. Years after starting this, I finally remembered that brown-and-tan coloring. I want to bring in that coloring without redoing the existing colored pages, so his color change shall be noted in a future Deer Me story.

Category: Deer Me Art

Labels: Deer Me, Art, Sketch, Male, Wolf

Characters: Jared Raul