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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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Finally something helpful that i can actually follow! thank you!
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This is so helptfully finally a tutorial i can follow, you know i find the keidrans so aweome and i like their legs beter than the humans legs
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Now, if i were actually good at drawing
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Wow, this is so helpful and inspiring! Β Thanks so much!!!
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This is very helpful you should make more tutorials like this ^^
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Dear, I really love this tutorial/referencesheet thingie! It is really well drawn and the speechbubbles inbetween the bubbles are adorable.
I hope that I may one day become an Artist like you .3.
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Thank you,Β Twokinds! I could never draw anything right before finding this, and it really helped. Again, thank you.
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very very helpful and get what you mean by make charcters like this is
hard to do in my mind you are a expert at this so this helped finish my
godess characterΒ for my comic so just ring a door on me if you need help
ever with arthermophic (bug/bug like/feeler ) like forms
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woah this helps with drawing digitigrade~
thanks~
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Things to be learned from this tutorial!Β Perhaps something similar for hooved characters, cloven or otherwise?Β This subject was always hard for me to draw convincingly.Β
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You say you're not an expert but for someone who has being doing this for 10 years, I'd say you are.
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Ohhh, how I thank thee for creating such a masterpiece.... Weeeeehooooo!!!!
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would you maybe do one that's identical to this but for plain human anatomy drawing. Coz I'd like to do some sketches of your characters but humanize them, such as the New Christmas picture you uploaded today of Kat drinking a hot chocolate by the window
It's just the feet I have the problem with
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i am going to use this and draw only legs untill i know how from mind.
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that was useful and very lovely looking tutorial!! thank you : )
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I have to keep this around, it would be helpful.
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Thank you! Your characters always look so free-flowing. So nice to know the process
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Love the comic, can't wait for more. :3
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Where can I get the Two Kind books, if you can get them
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A very well done guide. Β ^ ^ Β
-Kurocyn
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This is truly a great reference guide, it even kinda made me chuckle as i was reading Flora's dialog, Your Opinion on this matter is very well thought out and perfected. I can actually say i will probably be using this throughout my drawing career
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This will help me immensely for digitigrade drawing characters since I prefer that type for Anthro-type characters as opposed to the 'flat foot' style. >.<
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This is extremely helpful!Β This is similar to trying to draw some of the WoW characters that move digitigrade by default: tauren, worgen, dranei, all are up on their toes or hooves and thus their legs have that "not quite upright human" look to them.Β 
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Thx, The bit on walking was incredibly helpful
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Helpful stuff! I gotta say I'm really digging those wiggling toes in the top right.
Wiggle wiggle!
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is it supposed to say tkturials?Β
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Ohgosh this was so unbelievably helpfulΒ
o v o
Thanks so much for making this!!
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Wow, this is indeed amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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This is extremely helpful. Thank you!
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very nice tutorial thank you for submitting it!
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Since I almost always walk on my toes when I'm not wear shoes anyway, it was nice seeing someone pay attention to HOW that configuration moves.
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Loving this tutorial, funnily enough it's helping my perspective on body structure. You taught me something I couldn't learn by looking down at my own body.
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Hello. I love this tutorial. If you don't mind, can I save this so I can study it more thuroghly? I am an anthro artist myself, so this would help me refine my own characters.
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I very recently got into the comic and frankly felt somewhat inspired to do some races like this a bit. just would like to say I really like your work!
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Great reference art here. It is very rare to find good ones, as far as I know. But this is really awesome. Thanks for sharing this. Lately, though I have been in favor of plantigrade anthros, in my drawing style for my hybrid character. But this would certainly help for a dragon like character I've been working on. I enjoy the humor you added in the art guide, it was really entertaining.
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Oh my god this is what I've been looking for ALL THIS TIME.
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Cool! Ima so try this!
Thanks!
-Darky
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I was good at digitigrade before, but I've always had trouble with scale and proportion. It's because of that pesky little bend at the knee. I keep making the legs too long because I make all the angles too steep. I've gotten better recently (After reading you webcomic :3) and this will only help me improve. Once I get a print scanner to use I might actually link you a "What I learned from this" drawing.
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