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Twokinds Tutorials - Digitigrade LegsLooking around Deviantart, I noticed that there weren't very many good, detailed guides on drawing characters with digitigrade legs, like those featured on my Keidran and Basitin races. Digitigrade, for those unaware, is a term for an animal that walks on their digits (toes) rather that flat-footed, as we humans do. This style of character design can be difficult for someone unused to this type of anatomical structure. Now, I am not claiming to be any sort of expert. But I have been drawing these guys for more than ten years now, and I often get asked how I draw certain things. So this is not necessarily a "how to draw" tutorial" as it is a "how I draw" tutorial, if you get my meaning.
I hope this information can prove useful for those of you who are aspiring artists, or at least interesting to those who wish to learn more about how I go about my drawing process. So without further adieu, please allow Flora to demonstrate for you how it works! Enjoy!
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Would you ever consider making a "how you draw" tutorial for drawing a full-body anthro animal? I want to be able to at least try and improve my work. Normally when I try and improve my work, I try to make it similar to some one else's art (I don't publish it), with their permission first of course, and see how good it looks in comparison. I don't know how many other artists do this as well, but I find it very helpful when it comes to practicing. Anyways, naturally I have my own style, but I like to base it on other styles sometimes for fanart purposes and for reference to see how I'm improving
Anyway, regardless, I've been a fan of twokinds for years, and unfortunately only recently discovered your deviantart, but keep up the great work, I love your work and you too!
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Great resource for fans of digitigrade anthros - thanks for sharing this!
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those pictures are so nice I had a hard to focusing on the text!
really nice job! finally found a beautifully done, crystal clear take on bipedal digitigrades. needed this -3-
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Oh wow been wondering about a ref sheet like this.
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It's a good refrence guide to refer to when doing my drawings.
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A life lesson has been taught and learned
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YOUR KINDNESS & THOUGHTFULNESS IS DEEPLY APPRICATED FOR THE ONE WHO CAN NOT DRAM A COMPLETE CIRCLE ^^
(In other words, thank you for all of your, and this, help)
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This has been infinitely helpful! I actually drew a thingy that looked like a thing instead of a what-izzit. Any tips on doing hands?
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This is a really good guide, and shows the thought you've put into digitigrade anatomy. I just wish I could get a commission...
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can my fursona be a Keidran? idkΒ much, but I shall learn the way of this race.
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You should do more of these tutorials.
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Trying to draw Tabaxi for my D&D campaign.Β Very helpful
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Sort of helpful to me because it is too crowded and I can tell which one I'm drawing.
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This has helped me a lot to improve my drawing thanks !!
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This would be quite usefull for me drawing anthro characters or made up creatures that walks on toes. Β Thanks for drawing this.
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i find this dynamic pose very helpful thanks for sharing ^^
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Just asΒ Exquisite17 Β says you have blessed us hopeful arts with problems getting good scientific anthroΒ digitigrade leg anatomy drawings with this work of art.
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this is so cool.... and leaves me wondering what the skeletal structure of a keidran/basitin would look like.... where do the tail bones attach to the skeleton? also, i think animal pads (on the feet) help to pump blood back up the legs? do keidran pads do the same?
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They would just be an extension of the spine, as with all other tailed creatures. Hell, humans even have some sort of "prototail" left over called the tailbone, much like dolphins and whales still have some leg bones floating around in their torsos.
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The pelvis, like the animals.
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Great tutorial! You should give Flora something for her help though, she did say it was exhausting.
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I've been struggling with digitigrade legs since I can remember. Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial, it has finally clicked in my head, how to draw these. More simple than I thought...
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I'd say I've looking for aΒ digitigrade leg tutorial like this. Hopefully this will help me to draw characters with digitigrade legs
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Well drawn! I bet you took anatomy classes at some point.
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For someone who is new to furry art, the easiest way to think about these kind of animal legs is to imagine walking only on your "tippy toes", your heel always in the air.Β Simply make the heel far less pronounced.
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