Alright, so I might not be the best artist around, but I think I have a basic enough knowledge to help.
First off - dear goodness your art style is adorable and I love it
Secondly, the drawing seemed fairly flexible for it to be either a cat or a dog, so I red lined it as if it were canine. This guide's still kind fine for if it's a feline, but the front leg bump doesn't apply for them at all.
Third - I know, I'll get to the drawing in a second,, - if you ever need more help with other redlines there's this wonderful place called redline HQ with people a million times more skilled than me that will gladly help out!
Alright, now for the notes:
That's all from me! If I need to clarify anything I can, and if it's not a canine I can try relining it as a cat, though they're not my strong suit,,
First off - dear goodness your art style is adorable and I love it
Secondly, the drawing seemed fairly flexible for it to be either a cat or a dog, so I red lined it as if it were canine. This guide's still kind fine for if it's a feline, but the front leg bump doesn't apply for them at all.
Third - I know, I'll get to the drawing in a second,, - if you ever need more help with other redlines there's this wonderful place called redline HQ with people a million times more skilled than me that will gladly help out!
Alright, now for the notes:
paws wrote:Paws look very different depending on the dog. The biggest factor is just hair. Short haired dogs tend to have more obvious toes, long haired dogs just look like one soft mass down there, and wiry haired dogs tend to be somewhere in the middle. I drew the wiry haired sort of paw, because that's easiest for me (once again, I'm no genius)
back legs wrote:You've pretty much already got the back legs down. My only suggestion is to make it just a tad sharper, they're not as soft as you'd think
nub wrote:Dogs have got this little sort of.. nub on the back of their front legs. It's easy enough to draw. You just go slightly out and then extremely slightly back in then up. It's best to look closely at that part of a dog in a picture to get how it looks.
base of tail area wrote:I'm just gonna straight out call it a butt, that's what it is. Dog's actually look like they've got a bit of one, it would be just a bit bigger. But only a bit,,
matching length wrote:Your back legs and front legs don't quite match up in length, I used to struggle with that a lot. Then I
noticed there was the handy dandy line tool. Take that sucker out, hold the shift button - boom perfectly straight line. Use that to match up your leg lengths, good easy stuff
belly wrote:Your belly was just a bit too small. It'll go up a bit because that's the difference between the rib cage and the stomach, but do it that much and suddenly you've got a very hungry dog on your hands. Don't go up too much and you'll be good. A good way to keep it from being too skinny is instead of going slightly diagonal into the back leg, just go straight to it, should work like a charm.
shoulder blade wrote:Just a super quick note, ties in a bit with the hungry dog look. You're gonna want to have the shoulder blade just a bit more rounded. A well fed dog's gonna have a nice layer of fat to cover that up and it'll be less of a shoulder blade and more of a shoulder smooth. In some cases you might not see the shoulder blade at all, you'll have to figure out how you want it for your art style and how you want it for the pose they're in.
That's all from me! If I need to clarify anything I can, and if it's not a canine I can try relining it as a cat, though they're not my strong suit,,
