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BuryTheMaid [2010-09-19 19:52:43 +0000 UTC]

Question: are you finally satisfied with Miruru's design? I'd like to know so I can do my part of the trade :3

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Billiejoefan7 [2010-09-01 17:11:05 +0000 UTC]

coool <3

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Spelthi [2010-08-15 13:14:59 +0000 UTC]

i like this style

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BuryTheMaid [2010-08-15 12:11:29 +0000 UTC]

Time for critiquing.
ok dude, i don't mean to be mean, but you need to pay attention to anatomy. I'm not saying it's horrible, but you're not understanding how the body and its many parts are connected and how they should function. I'm not sure if that made sense--it's hard for me to explain--but if you think about it, bodies are made to be functional and are put together like a finely built machine. Pieces are put together naturally and normally symmetrically.

Now, the head and neck are good, but if you look at a wolf skeleton ([link] ), you can see that the front legs are in dire need of help. To be frank, legs don't bend like that lol. You're making the body (something supposed to be able to flow as the joints and muscles contract and expand) too stiff and "choppy" for lack of a better word. An easy way to draw front legs of canines is to think about us humans. Both species are mammal, and though different, roughly have the same joint and skeletal design for front legs. We both have corresponding joints for shoulders, elbows, wrists, and fingers ([link] ) Yes, they are placed differently, but they still work the same ([link] ).

Now, as for the back legs (what I think is one of the most trickiest parts of canine anatomy), then work like our legs do as well, though probably more exaggerated than our own. Here, you are only putting two joints in. There should be about three. Cuz if you think about it, the back paws are equal in placement as the top part of our feet (which includes the toes and the "pads" beneath them), where as the equal placement of the rest of our foot on a canine would be from the phalanges and a little before the filbula ([link] ) that is why there is another paw pad there where the heel of our foot would be. The joints for the front paw do not apply here. Also remember that, if you choose to put in dewclaws (wolves have them and most dogs are born with them, but a lot of times in domestic dogs they are removed), they are only on the front legs (except for that one 6-toed Norwegian one).

For the base of the body (the shoulders to the butt), you have the general shape, which is good, and a nice placement of the legs :] but you draw it like it's one of those punch-out cardboard figure bodies D: from where the end of the ribcage should be, there should be a slight incline, which you have done here.

Now, as for the butt... >_<+ the part that bothers me the most...as you can see from all the pictures I have linked to above, there is no lump from the back leg up to where the tail is. CANINES HAVE HIPS, and you need to draw them! (like on the rest of your characters too lol xD) If you were to crawl and looked into a mirror, you would notice that the butt/hips flow into the same "line" as the legs. Canines are the same. Here, it looks like the tail is some kind of malignant growth coming out of her butt! The spine flows from the head to the tail and should always be at the same level. The tail is part of the spine so it shouldn't go up like that. The one pic with the back leg tutorial will show you how to place the tail.

One last thing, since I only just remembered it: the paws themselves. They are the hardest things to draw of all! D: atleast I think so anyway (and yet, I still love drawing them) You have drawn claws, which is awesome a lot of people forget that dogs don't have retractable claws (the idiots!) however, it looks like there are only three toes on each foot. Also, the toes are not all the same "height" ([link] ), just like how our knuckles aren't the same height. This tutorial is really helpful and showed me so many things I was doing wrong: [link]

I don't want you to get the wrong idea and think I'm hatin on you or something and/or think I hate your art (which you know is not true! I wouldn't trade and commission you if I didn't like what you do!), I just want to see you improve and have more confidence in your abilities c: I haven't mastered all the things I've just told you, so yeah, I'm a hypocrite, but I'm still learning too x3

...dear gawd, I think this is the longest comment I've ever seen and wrote xD

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BuryTheMaid [2010-08-15 07:51:40 +0000 UTC]

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Lobodeablo [2010-08-15 04:35:50 +0000 UTC]

This is cool. I like the grin lol

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