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Any tips for drawing digitigrade legs?

Any tips for drawing digitigrade legs?

I’ve always struggled with drawing digitigrade legs and would be super appreciative if anyone had any tips on drawing them :3

Above is a sketch I’m working on and I think the legs look a little bit wonky lol

u/lavender_starr — 11 hours ago
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are their breeds (of dog) recognizable without color?

what I'm asking is- can you tell which breeds they are just from their shapes without being told what they are?

and if you can't tell, left is a bull terrier and right is a borzoi. should i add more defining features to make them look more like their breeds?

u/dontsnipemeplease — 13 hours ago

How to get a better "Mental" for drawing?

https://preview.redd.it/12k38rraxckh1.png?width=2122&format=png&auto=webp&s=fdecc3d5a444681b802b4afc71dcf4aa799e8593

Idk how to explain it, its been quite hard for a long time to finish a drawing and when I do I usually feel quite disappointed, sometimes to the point I quit drawing for weeks/months quite commonly (Once quit drawing for like 4 years)

Lately all I have been doing are these kind of rough sketches as I force myself to draw but after like 10 minutes my brain is out, so idk maybe someone has a book, a video, podcast something that could help get out of this Art rut I have been for years?

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u/One_Kiwi6616 — 14 hours ago

Side of face

I'm still pretty much a noob at this, but when I'm practicing I always end up with this problem on my face. I don't know how to solve it or improve it.

u/Snoo_71957 — 12 hours ago

Hiiiii! I need some tips on animating :3

Im new to animating! this was an animating test. any tips? also, its an oc animation.the animating app I used kind of sucks....but, tell me what you think!!!

u/PolyTherian_101 — 12 hours ago

Help make a t shirt design read better

How can I improve my t shirt design? I can’t seem to decide what to do with the limbs positions, and how ‘chibi’ I want the character (bigger vs smaller head and paws). I included 3 versions, which do you like best and how can I improve it overall? If you have any ideas for other stuff to add you can let me know too! Thank you kindly

u/invalidlyorange — 11 hours ago

First time drawing furry art - advice needed!!

Hi, this is my first time drawing furry art after being into drawing/illustration for a long time. I usually doodle or draw cute stuff and haven't tried digital art in a long time. Anyone have any advice and tips for mastering the anthro figure? I draw traditionally with pens but am wondering if I'll be needing to get into digital more...

Any advice appreciated, thank you!!

u/RussellandKlaus — 1 day ago

Need help with Dragon Claws ^^"

Hi there :3 Trying out this subreddit, since I don't have any art friends who are knowledgeable at that explicit topic: Im struggling with making the claws look dragon shaped- its my first time drawing claws in general, and right now they look more like cat/wolf claws- They should be longer, but if i try that, the perspective totally falls apart. (Maybe the whole paws are just already broken perspective wise)

u/Expensive-Smile3128 — 23 hours ago
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Help me with the lighting/shading

Can someone please tell me if the shading is accurate? I feel as it isn't. And would i need a little bit more fluff for the hair? Please tell me anything thats wrong 🙏

u/Thick-Impress-5836 — 20 hours ago

I feel like I’m hitting a wall with my art, but I’m not really sure WHAT is going on, and how I'd fix it.

(pictures above are a summary of about the past 4 months of drawing, don't mind that the blue fella has changed a TON, i never felt happy with his design)

I’ve been drawing for about like 6 months now (with practically 0 prior art experience prior to the initial start) and I can usually make something I’m happy with, but I feel like I’m brute forcing a lot of it instead of actually understanding what I’m doing, and its been hindering my progress, additionally causing a ton of art block the more that I look at how other people complete things of higher quality in a quicker succession than I can make my own pieces.

I'm mostly inspired by Typh and Zeronixu, and have tried to interpret as much as I can from their art. I started with Krita, moved to Paint Tool SAI shortly after strongly disliking Krita's stabilization feature, and have just been sticking with SAI since.

So, given that information, I very evidently have a ton of questions that I simply haven't been able to just google, look at speedpaints from some of the artists I look up to, or ask said artists for help (In hindsight, it was likely a stupid idea to try and get small tips from them regardless, i probably sounded like a bot).

Of which, the most prominent are:
- What exactly am I missing in my art that i simply haven't been able to find the cause of, yet can identify it?
- Looking at my art, what are some absolutely necessary things that I need to learn (if the answer is fundamentals, can you please just explain briefly WHAT fundamentals are)?
- Am I actually progressing decently for how long I've been drawing, or at the very least, doing pretty well?
- Could some of these issues that appear in my art be because of SAI?
- Should I consider using a different drawing software if these are because of SAI?

Does ANYONE here have answers to some of these questions after seeing some of the stuff I've been doing?

u/Severe_Rich1216 — 1 day ago

How can I make my art better?

Feedback, criticism, hate comments, give me anything to help me grow! I’m really proud of this piece, but I feel like it needs MORE but my eyes aren’t seeing what it’s missing. I don’t think I’m going to do any more work on this piece, but what can I improve on for my next piece?

u/WeewooArt — 1 day ago
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Sleeping beauty (look into the desc)

I was clearing my Google drive space and stumbled upon this sleeping dragon I drew back in highschool on the whiteboard, imo looks bad but it's a lot better than what I do now

u/DoroDerg — 1 day ago

Any critiques on how to make the perspective look like its from above

I had trouble getting the angle right so I drew the face and skewed it. I feel like it just looks tilted instead of being from above. Any advice would be appreciated!

u/Shinsou07 — 1 day ago

shading? rendering? line width? 🥹 all advice welcome please

hi, members of r/furryartschool ! could i please get some feedback on this art i finished recently? this is only my third finished furry drawing

the person i art traded with loves it, but i feel like my line weight and shading/rendering (truly i don't know the difference) are just off, and i've reached the point where i didn't know how to improve it any more.
if anyone has any advice, critiques, or resources to help me get improve i would really love them! thank you guys!

u/treecraftz — 1 day ago

So I started not long ago but I need help because I don't really know how do things

First of all, sorry for my bad English I don't usually speak in it.

I started to draw from this day like 5 days ago(received a drawing tablet recently and wanted to try it out), I'm a programmer and never draw something in my entire life, I have some artists I like and tried to replicate the trace or something like because I like the way they drawn, but of course not coping and pasting, trying to copy the minimal, like forms and poses, but I dont think I'm going anywhere, seems to much like the original to me, and of course I'm doing more like a hobby, and I was avoiding tutorials and stuff like because as a programmer I was in tutorial hell for so long that anything that remembers it to me I avoid, so far, I saw basic video of forma and lining but never went to deep, I will put the draws from each day, the artist in question I love the art is the zouldoodles

The last draw is from yesterday.

u/lendagron — 2 days ago

Help with 3D modelling wolf guy's head.

I don't know if this is the place for 3D art, but I've got some experience modelling humans but nothing non-human. I'm trying to model this OC of mine for a game, and I feel like I can't grasp how a head like this is supposed to be modeled in 3D with a relatively low (~10,000) tri count.

Looking up "furry 3D head modeling" doesn't really help, because none of it matches the style I'm really going for. The only character I really know who has a 3D model and looks fits the style is Von Lycaon from Zenless Zone Zero, and he's got more tris than everything I've ever modeled combined.

Here are some images of my second attempt at this so far (plus how he's supposed to look). Any help and feedback is appreciated.

u/Shin_Jyuusan — 1 day ago

How can I fix my pfp? (Anatomy and maybe rendering)

I suck at drawing guys but it's okay 💔

Anywho, the face, mouth, and hand just looks wrong to me and the whole thing looks flat

It's supposed to be a dog (maybe Bernie or something else) if that helps ^^

u/FuelBackground7449 — 1 day ago

help me improve my stylized anatomy!

just sketched this lil friend. i feel like the neck, head, & back/shoulder area is not correct but i'm not at a stage where i can fix my own stylized anatomical errors. any advice would be very helpful, especially redlining/redrawing those parts!! (i'm bad at visualizing textual info)

u/Far-Interaction1887 — 2 days ago

How would I go about shading/rendering this ref sheet exactly?

I'm struggling the most with the center part if I'm honest, I cannot for the life of me find an image with a pointed edge pointing straight forward. All the surfaces apart from the center part are metallic. Also some feedback on the shading of the far right piece would be very greatly appreciated

u/Tiny1275 — 2 days ago