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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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oooh this is awsome! I always struggle so much with those legs thanks a ton!!!!
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This could help me out.Β I'm always looking for good references/inspiration to improve my art with.
Awesome, by the way!
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One question:
Why do the feet in the action pose seem to point inwards?
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It's common that female poses are directed inwards. So it looks rather feminine if the knees or the feet are pointing inwards. Excuse my bad English.
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Nah, your English is passable.
Personally, I think it makes the pose look.... awkward.
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Thanks this will very mush help me with my drawing, especially of Twokinds characters.
Could you do another one that goes into other details of your characters, like the arms?
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Awesome tutorial! I'll definitely find a use for it. .D.
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Really good tom but is this what you have been working on for 2 weeks instead of he comic?
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Wow, this is really thorough! Thank you for posting this tutorial!Β I definitely will try some of these techniques.
Love the Twokinds comic BTW.
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You should make more of these tutorials Tom
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this'll help when I draw Reina more
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This is amazingly helpful, thank you!!!
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Woah, this looks great
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Thank you thank you thank you!!!
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nice. This is helps a lot and easy to understand.
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Thank you so much for creating this guide. I have been having a hard time explaining digitgrade legs to the artist I have asked to possibly draw a story I have been working on for some time. This will help immensely.
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hey tom, how did you come up with "Keidran" and "Basitin"? names can be difficult things to think of and im currently in the process of trying to make a video game so i need names for monsters, NPCs, etc. could you tell me how you think of names used in twokinds?
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^we smell spam
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Very helpful. Thanks for posting this!
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Thanks! This will help me a lot.
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Thank you so much!
I actually used your comic a little as a reference while doing one of my recent character sheets, but only for the heel of the digitigrade stance.
I have a general problem drawing feet
But I'm better at paws, and I admire the way you draw digitigrades, so I flicked through a few of your pages to get a look at how you do them.
Actually, I forgot to add that on the deviation description; I forgot since it was for such a small bit
But this is a fantastic help for the future!
I'm sure it will help out TONS of artists!
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β₯β₯β₯β₯ very helpful!!!! Thanks so much! !! Huge fan by the way!!!! Lol
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Very helpful stuff. Thanks for sharing!
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Super helpful! Thank you so much for this~
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I would like to see tails next
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I love tutorials this one is really detailed nice work.
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This is pretty funny, I was JUST looking at the comic and coming up with ways to draw these things myself. Β But I got some more out of this.
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This is so important thank you ;3;
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This is intresting; will keep and reffere others to here when help needed.
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Thank you very much, this is incredibly helpful! My comics main character has these and I felt I was doing something not quite right.
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This is a wonderful reference, thank you for sharing it!
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Ive got my comic on DA.. So this is helpful for my backviews!! ^_^
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Wow THANKS I reallyΒ LOVE and neededΒ this, this will be so helpful!
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Wow this is so very nice of you to do! 
You are right this was very needed!Β
Lovely work! I truly admire how you draw!
I was just about to practice drawing my white tiger this was perfect timing!
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