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In light of a little bit of obsessive study in the attempts to understand orekroarks. I can't be bothered to clean it up more than this.I've been trying to figure out the anatomy of orekroarks on a deeper level to try and figure out how they move a little better, and especially how they make the transition between upright posture and quadrupedal posture, as well as flight. After a while, I narrowed down the animals that I have nabbed inspiration from to develop them for reference.
At this point, most orekroark reference is drawn from greyhounds/Saluki and other sighting/racing dogs (mostly for the spine and ribcage structure and general body shape), monkeys and in particular baboons and mandrills(Heads and inspiration for moveability. Orekroarks first resembled animalistic humans and monkeys), cats like sleek domestic breeds, cheetahs and cougars(Particularly for quadrupedal walking gates, the spinal build and flexibility in movement and general body shape), and bats(Wings and sternum mostly, seeing as they can fly well, but do not have the massive sternum that birds do. I am in self debate whether I have or can use weasels or mongooses as reference for them (For the long spines), and bird reference is light and loose (Mostly for the upper and forearm of the wing, and mixed qualities of the finger). For lack of better skeleton studies, I only have studies of what I've found online. There are no skeleton collections or good museums with the specimens I need where I live, and it bums me out. Good sources are highly welcomed!!
So, with those in mind, I've gone and done little skeleton study doodles of each of them. I'll be attempting to reconstruct the orekroark body skeleton soon, and see if I can come up with something a little more refined than I have in the past.
I'll be doing the same thing for muscle structures. and then beyond that, I'll be figuring out the organs and skin/scale/feather as it is.
Ignore my notes scribbled in there... they are very incoherent, most of them added afterthought late at night when I can't sleep.
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I like how they feel very gestural, but also very accurate. Nice! This has inspired and reminded me to try studying skeletons of animals, I haven't ever really done more than skulls before, which is a bit foolish in retrospect.
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Wonderful studies! For the ones where you have sketched the shapes in pencil and inked the skeletons, did you draw the shapes or the bones first?
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Thank you!
I drew the shapes first, basically just a ghost of the actual animal I was looking at, and drew in the skeleton to practice the perception of the bones and where they went and what they did in those different bodies.
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Oh, that's cool! I'm going to have to give that a try sometime.
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definitely.... I really helps you figure out what is contorting where, and teaches you the limits of moveability in the skeleton and how something can move.
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I guess you'd need a good knowledge of the skeleton and the various bones to start out with, right? I mean, otherwise you wouldn't get the placement or the bone construction right. |D
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Yeah for the most part. Looking up an actual skeleton and drawing that out for reference first helps a ton for that though. A side view, front view and top view tends to supplement knowledge needed to bring out the other positions you'd need to draw in a living figure in movement. After that it's just paying close attention to what it might be doing. Looking at some skinny boney animals walking around helps speculate too.
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Ah, those are great tips. 
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No problem. Have fun!
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Oh my goodness, these are wonderfully - and so clearly accurate! I can't remember the last time I've seen such coherent depictions of anatomy and skeletal system 
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