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Felines vs Canines tutorial - General morphology
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Published: 2019-08-04 22:15:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 81273; Favourites: 2695; Downloads: 622
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I had this idea back in 2016 but never came to it. However, since I have had some issues with people calling my obviously feline species (siderians) wolves, I thought....where does that come from? Is that just a lack of knowledge about what really tells felines and canines apart? That becomes quite evident in some common mistakes that I see a lot in both felines and canines, but mostly felines. Felines seem to be harder to draw and canines come more naturally, so I think it is useful to compare them and show where they consistantly differ.
Since I draw nearly exclusively felines and some other carnivores (and because I'm a bionerd) I have studied carnivore anatomy in detail (even as part of my biology studies) and felt like sharing this knowledge now. Hopefully it helps people to draw more realistic and anatomically correct felines and canines. I have illustrated the features mostly with wild members of both families. Just enjoy these elegant, fascinating predators!
See here the other tutorials
Felines vs Canines tutorial - Faces
Felines vs Canines tutorial - Phylogeny and Anatomy
Felines vs Canines tutorial morphological details
Thanks to everybody for all the nice comments! I will try to answer everbody but I don't know if I manage; timewise. So hence the thanks here already ^^ :
I've fixed most of the typos, language errors and inconsistancies in the drawings, but I may have overlooked something. If you spot a typo or anything, please let me know
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i can only imagine this will be so helpful, thank you!
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Nice I like it. Thank you I see a lot of wierd canines and felines that have mixes of both.... even in Anthrpomorphic style, though mainly the head seems to be the issue there. this is also Why i think Krystal's muzzle is just a bit too short.
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Wow, that is some thorough analysis, well done!
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This is very helpful! I plan to draw some of my characters in their entity forms (in my fantasy novel series), and most of them are canines and/or felines, so this works perfectly!
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I should really practice this based off your drawings. I've got a species that I want to have be a mix of canine and feline traits, but I tend to lean too far to the canine side when I draw them.
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What a fantastic resource! Thank you for posting this
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You know I was just wondering about this very thing. I always got confused about whether foxes are canines or felids.
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Love that you put the bush dog next to the maned wolf
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Thank you! This is very useful information.
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This is so tremendously helpful, especially for me because I suck at feline anatomy, so thank you HEAPS for this tutorial!
I would also like to offer a cool fact, Maned Wolves aren't actually canines, they aren't related to anything else currently living I'm pretty sure because their evolutionary cousins all died out : D
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The maned wolf forms a separate genus Chrysocyon with a single species, the maned wolf, but it still remains part of the canidae family.
Otherwise, I agree, the maned wolf has very little in common with most of its immediate family members. In fact, a recent study points to the extinct dusicyon genus as the maned wolf's next of kin. The Falkland Islands wolf was the last living species in this genus, but was hunted and poisoned into extinction in 1876 by sheep farmers and fur trappers. So now he's one of his genus Chrysocyon.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/…
en.mercopress.com/2013/03/06/s…
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Yeah thanks! More is coming
Do you have any scientic literature that supports that? All the literature that I have read, confirm maned wolves a within the Canidae family.
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omfg i'm excited, I really love the way you draw felines so this is so helpful
and sure I can find some
In this one, it's referenced at the bottom with sources: animaldiversity.org/accounts/C…
-"Although the maned wolf displays many fox-like characteristics, it is not closely related to the foxes and lacks the elliptical pupils found in the vulpine canids . Some believe that it is closely affiliated with Dusicyon , but electrophoretic studies do not link Chrysocyon with any of the other canids studied. This implies that the maned wolf may be the only survivor of the late Pleistocene extinction of the large South American canids..."
I found more but oh my god I don't want to overload you with all this xD basically they are distantly related to canines but not close enough to be considered foxes or wolves
The Wikipedia article pulls its info from scientific articles based on my snooping and the long and short of it is it branched off on its own to live in its climate, I think it's still in the canidae family just a different genus, I wasn't trying to call you out I just wanted to share a cool fact cause I'm a prehistory nerd so I'm sorry if I came off wrong D :
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Yeah indeed, they are quite an unique genus, but still clearly within the Canidae family. The paper I just checked classified maned wolves as closer to the American fox lineage than to the Canis genus. What is indeed interesting is the relative closeness of bushdogs and maned wolves, in the figure that you linked. I had actually considered describing phylogeny in more detail in one of the next tutorials (including extinct genera), but I figured that this got way too massive, out of scope and needlessly detailed. Moreover, biologists do not always agree upon the close phylogenetic relations between species, since they use different statistical approaches. I tend to stick to the more conservative models.
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This is not only handy but also beautiful!
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Thank you! Even though most of my anatomy is not anatomically correct it’s nice to have the body structure be like the natural one
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Fantastic comparison tutorial. Your knowledge of the feline and canine anatomy is AMAZING!
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It's really helpful. Thank you.
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I want to print this and put it on my wall. Thanks for this in-depth analysis and guide!
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Yeah thanks! same, it's a good reminder for me too and I really enjoyed the studies behind it. There are 3 more to come and I'm considering to make a sort of 'summary' of the four tutorials that shows like 'everything you need to know when drawing felines and canines'.
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I can't wait to see more!
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Oh, this will be useful, thank you!
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wow, this is so detailed, i love it! Especially the comparisons!
thanks a lot for this, there's several aspects here that I might have never given a closer look without you! ^^
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Lovely! Super in depth information with great highlighting of problem areas for artists.
...and now for hyenas and aardwolfs..., crosses fingers hopefully.
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Actually I had that indeed in mind - to make one for hyenas, with emphasis on the the well-known spotted hyena, to show that they are NOT canines.
I had collected the references already ^^ - will take a bit of a break now, have been working on these tutorials for several weeks in a row now @.@ But yep, the idea is there!
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oml, ive been looking for something like this for the longest time <3
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Hehe glad to help here ^^
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Splendid art study you did there I'd say, very clever all in all to emphasize and simplified animal structures
for us artists to study on!
Magnificent!
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This is gorgeous, and so helpful!! Thank you a bunch!
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I think this is the best feline vs. canine anatomy infographic I've seen. Great job and thank you.
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WOW! Fuck it, this is awesome! Of course, I expected, that the tutorial on the anatomy of feline and canine in your performance would be interesting and useful, but I did not think which is so good. You added so many anatomical features in the first part, what really already there is, what useful to emphasize for drawing both families.
Of course, I love what you included in the canine, Maned Wolf, however, for obvious reasons. Very many, strangely enough, forget about them.
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omg thank you so much for sharing this!
i still can not believe why people believe siderians are canines lol
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This is AWESOME!
And there's only thing better than one feline vs canine anatomy tutorial... MORE feline vs canine anatomy tutorials! I'm so excited to see the rest of them, I think these are going to be some of my favorite tutorials on DA
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Thanks! yep, moaaar is coming!
yeah I hope I haven't forgotten anything. There was just SO much that I wanted to share O.o. I'm even considering yet another in-depth siderian study...although I have already made a tutorial that explains why siderians don't resemble wolves, but is mostly a compilation of photos ^^. Not really a tutorial though.
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Most your noted ''common canine mistakes'' exclude canis familiaris, even repeatedly saying the assumption that the person studying your anatomy tips, does not WANT to draw a dog. So, according to those notes, drawing a normal dog with dog anatomy is a mistake, because it doesn't look ''wolfy'' enough?
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Ok fixed it already ^^ I thought to just emphasize that it is a mistake in wild canines. I hope that comes through clearer now. But yeah concerning dogs, there is so much variations that that would be a tutorial on it's on I guess. Hence my emphasis on wild canines, mostly.
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Ah yeah actually a very good point that I didn't really realize. I think I had my mind so set on wild canines like wolves and foxes that I kinda forgot that people who intend to draw a dog, that this is indeed...actually right! I will fix it soon. Thanks for pointing it out.
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