Wolf

The detail in the wolfs fur really brings out the coloration and patterning of the wolf fur. His head being down and the way the wolf is walking convey a sense of a wolf slinking through the silent arctic tundra. His gaze, looks like its looking directly at the viewer breaking the fourth wall. The combination of these elements really comes together to create and convey a sense of a silent tundra with a single wolf quietly walking through snow. It looks like the background has been left undefined. Was there a specific reason for this decision? Maybe if you put some foot prints the wolf left in snow you could enhance the wolf walking through a tundra or whatever the wolf is walking through?