Alebrijes originate from Mexico and they're actually a relatively new addition to Mexican culture. First created by Pedro Linares as sculptures of non-existent animals that he saw in his dreams; a donkey with butterfly wings, a rooster with bull-horns, etc. The whole idea of alebrijes is that they can be whatever you imagine them to be and that they are sort of your spirit animal when you pass over to the afterlife.
I decided to combine two of my favourite animals to create my own alebrije; a wolf and a deer and then I decided to mix in eagle wings as well.
Initial sketch
I tried to go for a realistic wolf look but it looked really strange with the unnatural colour palette:
I decided to go extremely cute and simple instead:
And I toned down the colour palette to compliment the style better.
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