#bc this was mostly practicing the anatomy of the anthropomorphic characters

[scorpiolight-ships]

Finally got around to doing some studies of the Puss in Boots characters! As I predicted, the head is definitely the hardest part for me personally, but I think I’m getting the hang of it!

Also, I finally settled on my S/I being a fairy!

Foof belongs to @potionomic ! Ty for letting me draw them!

[frugalkubal]

I just love rendering to my heart's content sometimes. (⁠●⁠♡⁠∀⁠♡⁠) Though, it's also freaking frustrating at other times. lol

This is Atheus' Deercrown Staff.

I don't always start with lineart tho. I start with lineart when I draw things like this staff or if I go for a more stylized art (like anime/manga style or chibi).

When I go for (semi)realism, I usually start with values. I want to put down the vague image I have in my head and I'll just figure out the rest along the way; starts in grayscale and then I'll just figure out the colours and other details along the process.

This is Daichi, one of other people's 6 OCs that I drew before.

I usually tend to draw a character's body first, instead of going straight to clothes; bc I want to figure out how their clothes would wrap around their body. Plus, it's like a fun anatomy practice for me.

Anyway, things like that staff and bag are usually drawn on a separate canvas bc those things distract my self who has an attention span of a gold fish. ಠ⁠‿⁠ಠ I mean, I'd end up jumping from the character itself and to those stuff; back and forth, until I get overwhelmed and then procrastinate for a long a time. Sometimes, I even draw the head separate from the body, especially when the head has a lot on it (like a bunch of accessories or anthropomorphism-related stuff).

With the small size of my canvas (phone), I find it easier and even enjoyable drawing a full digital illustration by parts. I draw a bag; save. I draw the staff; save. I draw the character, add in those stuff I drew beforehand; and then make sure the colours harmonize (bc sometimes they look off, like they don't belong to the character).

Yeah, that's basically the gist of my art process. It's tedious, but mostly fun and satisfying. (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

[aphelionsabyss]

Someone would pay for art in this style bc it's kinda like an ironic comic thing.

Anyways I'm in the business of only drawing cats and deers anthropomorphic. And I never post it because I'm not a furry artist and I don't wanna become popular from being a "furry artist." (There's nothing wrong with that tho. I just have a specific brand I wanna build)

But here's what *I* think is wrong

You gotta draw the dog face smaller. I'm only in the business of drawing cats and deer anthro in my own time but like...don't -4- don't focus on it being a super realistic dog.

The proportions should be more humany. It should essentially look more like a furry human than a dog standing on its hind-legs. Unless you're going for realism. I think this is supposed to be a Dachshund so you want the face to be boxy like that, but the mouth and the nose need to be like right together on side view. You should see the nose mostly on the front view and the mouth shouldn't be directly there it needs to do a littke ":3" type thing like real dogs. The ears need to be a little more like a diagonal square too.

Then the hands are just bad bc...they are. Lol. Practice drawing human hands if you can't do hands. For dogs and most anthropomorphic animals, either make them four fingered hands or make them paws. Which, is fairly easy to do compared to hands but comes at a cost of functioning differently. You should never try to jump into drawing paws for anthro characters before learning how hands work.

The legs need the most attention tho. They don't bend like a dog's in this art. The arms can look mostly humany, but the legs need dog the dog flare to really sell it's a dog and look correct. You're working with a double joint bending leg. Thigh to knee looking bits are gonna kinda bend forward but when you get to the feet your gonna have the anklely bit bend back and then draw the paw forward like this dog anatomy photo

Source of the photo: https://canineanatomyforbeginners.wordpress.com/skeletal-system/

But yk if you just want to generally draw a dog that walks on twos you could also just do Mr. Peanutbutter style idfk.