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[danydarkly]

Today is Wolf Song Animatic's 10 year anniversary on YouTube~! 🥳

Can't believe these OCs of mine are a whole decade old 🤧

And the Red & Wolf webcomic, which is derived from my Wolf Song animatic, will be 4 years old next month! As of writing this post, where we are in the next update of the comic is parallel to the animatic 👀

I never thought my melodramatic, self-indulgent, little red riding hood retelling would be enjoyed by and affect as many people as it has. I feel in a lot of ways these characters have grown with me and have been a part of some key moments in my life (they gave me something to focus on during a pandemic, for one). I honestly didn't think it would be THEM, they were supposed to be one-off OCs and remain less like characters and more allegorical.

Like they were just "Wolf" and "Red", then after people became interested and invested in them as characters they became "Leikos" and "Scarlett". "Wolf Song" was supposed to be this heavy, sad, allegorical thing - but so many people saw a romantic tragedy, which REALLY concerned me at first but I did come around to the idea eventually. Reworking the concept to be a somewhat dark fantasy romance was how the "Red & Wolf" comic came to be. There's something kind of weirdly healing about taking a sad story from your past self and throwing some fluff in there, idk.

Anyway, I could go on and I have so much more that I can say, but ultimately, I would just like to thank you all for your support and interest throughout the years 💕

It's gonna be bittersweet when I wrap their story up :')

[ewa-jednak-chce-spac]

[sustineree]

Characters belong to @/danydarkly

Title: Red & Wolf and you can find it on weebtoon

[labyrinthphan97]

Has anyone else thought Andy Biersack would make a pretty good live action Leikos?

Just the way he’s so tall and dark and could look easily look a bit eerie, but he’s got such a gorgeous beautiful face and he looks so young (I swear he looks like he just leapt out of an anime), surely he couldn’t be so bad?

Then its like: 

Holy hell.

Any thoughts?

[danydarkly]

I totally missed Valentine's Day but I suppose it's never too late to draw some fluff ~ 🌸

[danydarkly]

Idk, been feeling the floral motif lately~

[danydarkly]

Last drawing of 2022 (probably)~ And it's a screencap redraw of this moment between Wolf and Virginia from The 10th Kingdom - but with Leikos and Scarlett :v Because sometimes I just gotta draw what I want, even if it means like 10 people will get the reference lol Rewatching The 10th Kingdom recently made me realize how much that miniseries influenced me creatively on a subconscious level and I was truly AGHAST but in the best way because I love it. Anyway, there's a new "Interlude" update up on Webtoon Canvas: [link] Winter Part I will likely be completed and up sometime in January, thank you all for your continued patience. Here's to more of these two (and hopefully other things) in 2023~* ❤️🐺

[danydarkly]

I loved that section of the last part! Scarlett pacing around her room freaking out meanwhile leikos is like “😊😍🥰😳” lmao

Thank you! I had a lot of fun writing and drawing that scene, definitely one of my favorite scenes in Red & Wolf~ "oh NO!" vs "oh nooo..."

[danydarkly]

"My red right hand shall take thee home" 🐺🌙👁️ "Thy red right hand shall take me" 🐇☀️🌺

[danydarkly]

A sort-of redraw of the original thumbnail art for Red & Wolf. Mostly felt like drawing something flirty~ 🐺❤️

[danydarkly]

Late posting this because I'm still feeling incredibly wiped out from this past weekend but I wanted to doodle a little something to express the immense gratitude I feel for everyone who supported me this past weekend at Otakuthon. Y'all were very lovely and really gave me a huge confidence boost. Special shout out to the readers of Red & Wolf that came by and gave such nice feedback for my first webtoon and bought Red & Wolf prints like?? What?? In previous years at Otakuthon, before I started this comic, I would maybe get one or 2 people that recognized the Wolf Song or Heidi animatics, which was super dope but this year?? Half the people who bought stuff from my table were readers of Red & Wolf which was so unexpected. Not to be dramatic but it still feels like a fever dream, like I had to double check my inventory to make sure that was real aaaaaa Also! For some reason y'all would show up every time I had to leave my table to go to the bathroom lmao I'm so sorry for those of you I missed because of that, it's so funny that it kept happening every time though 😅 Also-also! I'm so happy I finally got to meet some mutuals in person, as well as some other artists whom I have been following for some time. Happy to have met new people and see some old friends whom I haven't seen since "the before times", honestly just being in an environment where I can geek out about stuff I like with people who also like the same stuff is always a good time. My social battery is thoroughly depleted but I'm so amped to table again next year, as well as table at other cons and tradeshows if possible. Anyway, this is getting long so I'll wrap it up by saying thanks again for your support and kind words 💗💗💗

[danydarkly]

Felt like drawing something angstyyyy and it kind of turned into an experiment with brushes, textures and effects on Procreate ovo

[danydarkly]

Hello, I'm not dead, just very tired 🌺

[danydarkly]

Since spooky season is upon us, I was itching do draw something stylistically akin to Over the Garden Wall 🍂 I haven't had a reason to draw Anthelm (the Forest Queen) yet so I thought, why not? I'm excited to explore her dynamic with Leikos when the time comes~ ovo

[danydarkly]

☀🍃Side-By-Side Version❄🌙 Worked out better than I thought it would, aw yiss~

[danydarkly]

Hey, been a while! Just poppn' in to say that Red & Wolf reached 5K subs on Webtoon Canvas recently! Woop woop! 🎉 Thank you to all who are following my comic, we're about halfway through the story as of posting this. I have learned so much creating it and I hope to be a better storyteller and artist by the end of it. So thanks for coming along on this journey and for your continued patience ❤️ (And before anyone asks there will be an update soonish, this month was a little hectic bare with me ;v; )