Dhole Clay Bust

Clay bust of a character I designed earlier this past year as part of an art project for school(this thing also weighs 10 pounds D: )
His name is Dhole (and he's a dhole, duh), and is meant to be a representation of the dhole species as a whole in order to gain awareness about species endangerment and conservation; being that he is undead.

Some of the other characters in this project included, (Black) Rhino, Kagu Bird, Sea Otter, Giant Panda, (Bengal) Tiger, African Wild Dog, and Vulture. All characters' personalities were based off of the way humans have treated the species, and they served as reminders to the people of what could happen if the species reaches extinction.

Dhole himself is pretty bratty due to the fact that not many people know about dholes or do much to protect them in retrospect to the other species listed. He's the "evil" one in the group that wants humans to pay for their behavior and un-acknowledgement. Of course, he ends up realizing that that's not the way to handle things and only makes him like the humans, so he stops forcing it, and fights in a nonaggressive way instead alongside the other animals.

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If you would like to see the other designs, check out my Instagram tag, here: www.instagram.com/explore/tags… (not all of the designs have been posted).

And if you would like to read more on dhole conservation, please check out: wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/…