[geinkotsu]

Looks quite intimidating at first, doesn't it? But don't worry, it's actually quite simple!

Whenever you start with something like an animal, I generally like to do the main circles first. So that rump circle, and your skull circle, and your upp arm muscle/shoulder circle, would be your main focal points. Not so hard to see those three circles all on their own, now is it? Well, simply connect the spine from your head circle all along your other circles and curve the tail as you want it. And you have the spine! The ribecage is a simple rectangle between your shoulder and rump (or you could extend it to it's proper length, but it's easier to see things when you dont overlap them too much).

Here comes the trickier parts... lets start with the face. You see all these shapes? Well let me break them down for you. The eye is a simple circle, as far right on the skull circle as possible without overlapping, and pretty centered. Now you simple make a strait line out from that eye and then make an oval. The three lines simply come from connecting the circles to make the muzzle.

But what's this <----> line with the two under it? Well, that's a measurement! The ear should be two eyes in measurement from the actual eye! So if you aren't sure about placement, just make two circles roughly the same size of the eye towards the base of the ear and draw your oval base there (all this should usually fit within the base skull circle). Not too hard now that you've done it step by step, now is it?

Now here comes the leg. The bones, are simply lines. Start with the pelvis/shoulder bone, and then just make your line to where the pose has been suggested, and make a circle for the joint in the knee, then make another line, to the ankle, with a circle for the ankle (the back foot has an extended line because of the bone protruding there). Your boxes for the toes/feet dont have to be complicated like mine, just make a simple rectangle and flesh it out as you please.

The muscle is pretty simple and the last thing you add to help you with fleshing out your drawing. The back leg's thigh muscle is pretty orieantly towards the knee (I forgot the second thigh muscle, I'll add it later maybe). The upper arm muscle is overlapping the shoulder circle and above the elbow. And the lower arm muscle is between the elbow and the carple (aka ankle/wrist).

If you didn't notice, I threw in a few new worsds in there. Humerus, Radius, Unlas, carpl and Metacarpls. (The radius and ulna are like the tibia and fibia and the Humerus is also like the Femur (except it's for the front legs/arms and are much shorter, but they connect and twist generally the same). And carple is that knot of bones at your wrist/ankle joint, and metacarples are like your finger joints, except they are more like little strings and pullies of muscle to move your actual fingers (or 'filangies' for those bone enthusiasts).


Okay, I hope I explained this well enough. I am really tired and forgive any mistakes (in the diagram and in my writing). Point out anything that is wrong, I'm human and I'm prone to being forgetfull and wrong, and I will surely fix it~

No refferences used for this, I do these kind of simplified shapes on my own knowledge.

Copyrights:
Species thing (c) Cody's Lost It
Art/Diagram (c) Geinkotsu