For my character, I wanted to explore how a hairless creature owuld look. I started first with the Werewolf as my inspiration, which soon changed to the Wendigo, a forest creature. Both of which are ahiry or have fur on their bodies and face. I wanted to look at canines and see how they would look without fur.
When searching for hairless dogs, I came across:
-The American Hairless Terrrier
American hairless terriers are a rare breed of dog that were derived from a variant of the Rat Terrier.
-Peruvian Inca Orchid
An ancient hairless dog from Peru, discovererd in early 1500s by the Spanish. They are possibly the origin of the Chinese Crested breed.
-Xoloitzcuintle or Mexican Hairless
The Xoloitzcuintle is a hairless dog breed native to Mexico. There is archaeological evidence that they existed in Mexico for more than 3,000 years and descended from several breeds of Old World dog breeds.
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Brooke, C. (2015)
Hairless Dogs
These images were useful to look at for reference when sculpting and drawing my designs. Also when testing hair techniques such as hair punching, flocking or layuin on, I can look at these images to ensure my direction of hair growth loks accurate. As I am planning on using flocking and hair punching for this project, these images have helped me to decide where I want the hair to be. I will flock/ hair punch the tips of the ears and I will have a long hairpiece down the centre of th ehead to tie in the human features.
Images are colour coded.