Ask Me Anything 2: Uprising 🗳️
a year ago
Why the hell not, let's do it again!
Ask me stuff. Art questions or advice, details about my OCs, opinions, whatever.
As per usual, I will try my best to answer as many as I can, but I can't promise I'll answer everything. Ask away.
Ask me stuff. Art questions or advice, details about my OCs, opinions, whatever.
As per usual, I will try my best to answer as many as I can, but I can't promise I'll answer everything. Ask away.
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It's mainly the result of a lot of practice and studying (looking at photos and videos, using my own feet as reference, guides).
I find reference in particular to be very helpful because you can look between the reference and your art and correct any mistakes you've made. You may intuitively want to draw a body part a certain way from a certain angle, only to realize it would look completely different based on the reference. Every mistake you correct builds up your mental model of that body part or object. Don't be afraid of reference, it's not cheating or anything. Even tracing can be a valid way of learning as long as you're paying attention (and don't pass it off as your own).
I think proportions and perspective are some of the biggest hurdles in general and lead to a lot of the issues people have with drawing things correctly. Honestly, again, you really just have to study feet and try to break them down to their base parts, which involves drawing a lot. You'll start to get that frustration that it doesn't look quite right, which means you need to go look up reference and figure out what you're doing wrong.
Ultimately the way I draw feet is the result of my own observations and preferences and experimentation over the years. If you look at my old stuff (https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....8840/Old-Stuff) it's pretty stiff and straight. Eventually I began to inject more humanlike foot features into it and play around with exaggeration (which can also be educational). For example for Ralsei (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51611555/), I just basically tried to make the widest, curviest feet I could. For Towaga (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56486201/), I went all in on length.
Well this was a lot. XP To more directly answer your question, if I made a guide it would be more along the lines of tips and tricks rather than step-by-step how to draw feet exactly like me. I may consider doing some small tuts in the future though.
Here are some more refs I like:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd-xDqZWsAEGQqv.jpg