Drawing Fire Wolf : Fanart

Hey guys!👋
How're you all doing!💞
It's gonna be my first post in Holozing community. And I thought to paint fire wolf.
Wolf has always been my favourite animal, so why not put it to draw.

( Not me showing off my aesthetics 🙈)

Here's the link to the reference image: Inspiration

Have a look at the process.

Process

I first took out a page from sketchbook and attached it over the board with masking tape. And put the board at an angle. I've seen many artists insisting to put the paper at angle but I never did it before today.
It was definitely very helpful and convenient, and water flows in a controlled way.

Then started off with the sketch. Sketching was the most hardest part.

Afterwards outlined the it.

Then started colouring the fire, because it was not outlined so didn't wanted to mess it up!

Then went on and on. I really don't have idea that how I did it, no specific technique was being used, just sorting things out at the moment.

I was trying to get the light of fire over the body.

Now it's the turn of background. I was constantly being checked by anxiety, as I had worked so detailed, and bad background could be a quick turn off.
I usually do rough backgrounds, this makes the details of foreground pop up.