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Published: 2010-08-29 00:06:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 108005; Favourites: 5690; Downloads: 1275
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I really like drawing dog paws and one day while life-drawing my sleeping mutts' feet I noticed an easy method to block out the shape of a paw pad, so I thought I'd share!
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life is full of geometric shapes.... too bad i sucked at geometry 
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Although I dont like to draw paws on my furs (I prefer to draw hands and feets, to make them appear more human), this will be useful to me when I get around to drawing some canines. Thanks alot mate.
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I just started geometry. I'm now going to start right pawlygons instead of poly...Sweet. lol
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Wow! Thank you and thanks to the POWER OF GEOMETRY! ^^
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PAWS!!!!! *dies*
i freeking love the squishyness of animal paws i use to always just randomely shuish the ads of my cousins cat's paws XD
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Well done ! ^^
It's really simple when you think about it. Thanks for uploading some tricks ~
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awesome idea!! XD
math is power!!!
lol what am i talking about?? i hate math...>3>
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That's totally cool. Never would have thought of that!
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I especially like the part "The power of geometry!" ; )
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Awesome, this is amazingly clever. Faved for the future ^_^
This will prove to be very helpful, thank you.
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So easy a caveman can do it!
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That's awesome and amazing! Thank you for sharing this trick!
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It's interesting to see all the "tricks" people use to draw what at first seems like a simple drawing. I'm not into drawing myself but I've seen this tutorial and the one showing a few tips and tricks about drawing faces and it's all quite interesting 
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wow, that's great! I always have trouble with paws.. I will keep this in mind next time!
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you gave me one of the simplest advices yet very helpful one, this gonna help me when I get to draw doggies
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This is good, but you're missing the thumb and the finger-like limb that makes up a part of the palm further up on the foot.
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the dog's thumb is called the "Dew Claw" (D) and the clawless, boneless finger-like limb is called the "Carpel Pad" (E)
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Those are on the front feet of the dog only (except some dog breeds who have dew claws on the hind legs), this is a sketch showing a dog's hind-paw. I probably should have stated so but the general shape of the actual paw pad is relatively similar with all 4 of a dog's paws.
But yes, people drawing fore-paws should not overlook the carpel pads or dew claws!
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I agree entirely, and brb, I will check my dog's anatomy around its hind legs.
YES THAT SOUNDS WRONG.
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Really great break down. Totally faving this for later references. Thanks.
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Really helpful ^_^ Before I was drawing paws with three dots and a X through them ^_^ Thankies
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Well now why didn't I think of this
Great way to do this, now I noticed you have one that is kind of at an angle. You would just kind of shorten one side of the Pentagon??
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O MY GOSH! I CAN USE IT IN REAL LIFE! They never told me it would help!
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Yess!! I have such issues with paws, thank you! Maybe you can find the secrets to paws from other angles? XD
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Very cool. I found myself in the position of drawing dog feet just the other day and wondered about this very thing.
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