Metalpoint Drawing: Snarling Wolf Tribal

Original drawing is available for sale. Price is € 600.

Here you can see more of my metalpoint drawings.

Here you can find my tutorials in which I explain how my metalpoint drawings are made. Here is a step by step guide about how I made this drawing.

This is a metalpoint drawing of a snarling wolf in profile. Image size is 8×10 inches. It is made with 24 karat gold, palladium, and aluminum. The more commonly used name for this drawing technique is “silverpoint,” but since I didn’t use silver for this artwork, I’m using the term “metalpoint” instead.

Wolf Drawing in Metalpoint
A metalpoint drawing featuring a snarling wolf in profile. Artwork is created with 24 karat gold, palladium, and aluminum.

Here the finished drawing is photographed together with the drawing tools I used for making it. From top to bottom: a stylus with a 1 mm gold wire, a stylus with a 1 mm palladium wire, a mechanical pencil with a 0.9 mm aluminum wire inserted in it, a mechanical pencil with a 0.5 mm aluminum wire, a mechanical pencil with a 0.5 mm gold wire, a wire brush with aluminum wires that I used for creating fur textures.

Wolf Drawing in Metalpoint
Drawing photographed with light falling at an angle.
Wolf Drawing in Metalpoint
Drawing photographed with light falling at an angle.

When light is falling on a metalpoint drawing at an angle, it looks shiny.

For a while already I have been thinking about how to combine my more realistic looking metalpoint drawings with tribal designs. This one was a test drawing to see how that could potentially look like.

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