Very handy indeed :3

Thanks for the example now I can follow these linings. ;]

Thank you so much for this! This really encompasses the elements in which the anatomy works!
Wonderful, clean, and detailed tutorial!
*Tanek*

> Wonderfull
te-he...

> clean
huhuh...

> detailed
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Hey, as an artist myself (albeit limited in my abilities) I look at the details :P
Love it regardless!

Ooo nice

So schön ^^

All this makes me wonder - which do you prefer to use in your art? And why?

I like 'B' 'C' 'D' for the simplify toes. Why? Don't know, just a matter of personal taste.

Personal taste works! Nothing wrong with that.

very helpful! wow! :)

Oooh, thank you! I really appricate that you did this.

Wonderful ref guide for legs. Thank you!

Thank you! This is so useful!

Thanks yo

Quite a variety!

its good, but I would of brought up the knee a little and forward through the progression. but this is still nice! :D

Thanks, this is going to be really usefull ^^

really hate when people use the last one jaja

You are GODLY! I need this ref! Thank you!

Suddenly 60% of artists get this sheet handed to them alongside the ususal patchwork ref images. XD

Mm, I prefer it when the thighs are shortened so the three parts (thigh/shin/foot) are made equal length. That always looks "right" to me.

Well, it's just a sceleton construction, as I said. Proportions could be little bit different.
But actually, anatomy books and my own experience in 3D modeling/posing says that thigh should be longer. Epecial for female characters. But no need to care if it's just a picture.

Human anatomy wise, the femur is proportionally the longest.
Why do you say that specially for females though?

Funny thing? My actual legs are designed like the half digi-grade. I physically cannot put my heel to the floor and have the bend in my ankles and knees to help me balance and walk like it.

Fascinating.

oddly, I'd like to hear more about you from this statment

Faving for future references. :3

This is a really useful reference. I think my preference is types B and E.

Would be interesting to see how the resting "crouched" stance of the more digitigrade ones would effect muscles & joints in RL applications. My suspicion would be stronger tendons and higher metabolism due to having to keep the body in tension instead of weight being directed straight down at rest.. Possibly even shorter muscles and a more limited range of motion on the calf and upper thigh muscles as a result.

The key to efficient bipedal motion is to have a resting stance while standing. The D through F creatures would simply get exhausted and put down their heel. That's why the digitigrade design will evolve further by shortening and compressing the tibia and fibula combo. The tendons of the tarsal section of the foot, both flexors and extensors will have to turn into actual muscles. That will offset the loss of mechanical strength of smaller shin section. While also maintaining full capabilities and mass of human lower leg. It's the ankle joint that will have to keep raising closer to the knee to achieve this, possibly messing today's mainstream aesthetics. On some anime style pics they have this already figured out.

This is so useful, thanks!
Did you perhaps mean "Digitigrade", however?

may be XD
Have to fix it.

Looks like a foot references for werewolves. Kinda looks like it.

it's just how I call it for myself. Forgot it's not the real name -__-

on the subject of corrections, simplified would be the correct spelling of simplyfied.

This is great! Thank you for sharing it Wolfy - I like that it covers a bunch of variations.

OMG Thank you!, This comes in handy!!!

Hem... May I download this and use it for refference? (Not copy or trace, just refference) I draw myself and this is really useful, even more coming from such talented artist :)

Sure, discription says it's free to use for everyone.

Thanks again :) It's hard to find refferences this good

Good leg refs like this are hard to come by. Very, very nice.

Ahh thank you so much ;__; I always have trouble drawing digit-grade from the sides ugh
And the toony one is simply adorable. Thanks for the wonderful tutorial!!

THIS.
Oh BTW, what about human toed digigade? Ive seen it a couple of time but to give the toes a more feral look they usually had longer nails. Mostly switches between normal and C.

Sweet, really helpful!! Especially since legs/feet are a problem for me. I agree with a comment you have said, my personal prefrences are B, C and D also for furry feet, just find its more simple and looks nicer

very handy when asking commissioners what type of leg their character has/ they prefer. sometimes even with refs its hard to tell if its character specific or the artists style.

Useful, but why "diggy-grade" and not digitigrade?

*fixed it

Oh, excellent!

*flanders.gif* well diggy grade to you ;)

Hi-diddly-ho, neighborino!

This is great! I can deff use this but not for the furry part. For the human part!! That's a weakness if mine. Thank you for sharing!

Hahah this si awesome. I always have issues talkign to commissioners about this XD

Another artist did such a drawing I even have it saved on a flash drive

I'm pretty sured that not even one. But still, can't find it when I need it.

This is awesome. Definitely a great reference.

E and F are my fav's when I'm looking at your art in particular. I always and up admiring the anatomy of the legs when I'm looking at pieces do by you. Every artist has that one thing that sets them apart, and i always notice that you always get the legs PERFECT!!!!! Totally fangirling out there but had to be done ^_^

That last leg is super kawaii; I just wanna cuddle it !!
It looks so soft and warm

This could be quite useful to me. If you need help with English, let me know, yeah?

This should be helpful in future art.

Wow, this is awesome. I don't know why i didn't do this instead of explaining it over and over again XD

I was just going to start looking for some anatomy refs and I have this in my sub box! Awesome work!

This is very helpful! Thank you very much for posting this, i'm having the hardest time with drawing anthros ;-;

i walk like a half digitigrade style irl ^^

I really like the C style :) ^_^

This will help me a ton! (Especially for the comic I'm working on.)

Thank you so much for this.

I been trying to improve in my art skills and this looks really helpful ^_^

This is super awesome!! Thank you for sharing.

Does not look like shit! Is quite professional and well done. A great idea. I like the detail you put in each one.

This is great!!

You should totally do a front view tutorial, as well!

Lol I draw mine like G XD

Very neat and easily explained! Thanks for sharing :)

This'll be very helpful!

This'll help :)

I love this!
*Proceeds to scribble in sketchbook*

So which one would you say you use the most? :P

Your Engrish insults me!.....no not really. Just felt like poking fun at ya.

pretty helpful

thanx this was the one thing i had a problem with

I love it when the more skilled artists help the rest of the community with tutorials and references like this, your being a great help those aspiring and growing artists among us!

Things like this are even a help me when I get rusty and feel like I can't draw. xD

This is great, it's been very difficult to properly express half-digitigrade to artists. I'll use this as a reference, thanks!

Super helpful, was trying to draw up something like this for awhile... you saved me time :)

1 and 2 are my personal favorites. Thanks for sharing.

Das ist wunderbar. Ich liebe :D


If my german was horrid, its because I'm american XD

Anyways, I like it :D

Loving half Digigrade. Sadly seems much how i actually walk.

This is normal.

this looks perfect thanks :D

Awesome!

Wow! This is really cool man. If it is up for grabs to use as a practice ref or as a ref for for my own art I would love to snag a copy, but as it is your art I wanted to ask first. And your English ain't so bad. I have seen a lot worse.

This is awesome. F is my favourite. :) I never liked B though.

Wow, that looks just impressive. Maybe you can do something similar with the different types of tail, especially with lizard like creatures, where the tail is the extension of the Body, rather than just looking like simply attached to the Body (when done anatomically correct)

Really well done.

I love it. Its a nice ref for some different legs.

This is really interesting!

Perhaps one like the short shin version. .. with a slightly shorter thigh length (higher knee placement).

Really good! Thanks for this! =D

haha this is awesome, you're the best!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH Thank you for this

G- "This is just like one of my Japanese animes!"

I need to study hell all mighty out of this :I

Damn,such reference.
It's seems that i've been drawing most of my characters with 'human legs with animal toe' type
Awesome work as always

I've always been looking for this.. thank you! ;A;

This is exactly what I needed for my reference folder. Thank you so much for sharing this.

thanks for posting it--its a great rescource ^^

This can actually help me with my anatomy :D

Always C.

Thank you for this Wolfy!

I am still learning even though I've been doing art for a long time. This will help me very much.

Hate that I've been drawing furries for years but secretly hope I don't have to do digitigraded legs! Maybe this image will finally change things.

I really like this! Thanks for posting it. When I usually draw D, E, or F, I try to go with slightly exaggerated musculature along the calf, and wider foot/hooves for weight distribution. Very cool!

oh sweet thank you Wolfy-Nail this ref sheet is VERY helpful i always hav a problem about the leg part

This is awesome its super helpful can you do more like them like face shape ears or maybe hands hands would be awesome! Pretty please with a cherry on top?? x3

very helpfull thanks.

Very good reference!

Anyone else think that F looks implausible for bipeds of human-ish weight? I see it on some people's characters and marketed as "realistic" but they look to me like they could snap at any moment.

This is quite handy and really nicely done! Great to have this.

Very cool, and very useful! Well-done!

this is a great submission, really instructive and useful will help with anatomy issues on legs, for sure.

the scale between human and furry, visualized at last.

Полезняшки.
Хотя я в основном второй вариант рисую, но иногда для коммишнов приходится рисовать и звериные ноги...

Большущее спасибо, Гвоздь! Украду к себе в коллекцию туториалов!
Будет над чем поработать, а то периодически кривова-то лапки выходят, а в чем проблема, сам не пойму! х3

how very cool, it'd be neat to see a anthro horse one from ya

Thanks W.N. for this help.
It really gives a bit of perspective on some things that I was thinking about, but not sure on the distance.

That's is just great! Both your idea, that as far as I see materializes most of the furry leg-shapes that your comisioners could wish for, and your will to share it with us. A clear reference shapes of most sexy digitigrade legs I could wish to be able to draw. Thanks Wolfy. ^^

Thank you so much

Thank you!
You have given me the idea to do it for different body parts too.

D E F are my personal faves.

It makes me cry when I see you drawing everyting else >.>

<=== Loves everything more animal-like

and now show me how to draw paws ! :3~

Thank you so much, it's very helpful!

This is incredibly useful. This is well done. I acknowledge that I draw mostly "F". but have done a lot of "B" as well, I trioed something similar in the past, but this is far more clear and systematic. Well done!

As a growing 3D model maker(self taught so nothin' to show for it now), this reference to leg structure is going to be super helpful. Thanks for postin' it! <3

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANKYIHGTUIGKGTIJ

Yeah thanks dude!

Нравится твой профессиональный, системный подход к делу) (да и вообще ты молодец)
я обычно как пойдет - так и рисую, тот еще пофигист (типа, нарисую перса но в "своем стиле" т.е. как получится), вот последнее время на E перехожу, ну и люблю шерсти распушить^^

Cool!

I am a fan of something between E and F but with a longer shin and shorter femur.

Oh my god, I've been needing something like this as a reference o_o you are amazing!!

A ,B, C and E. Guess they all legit. provided that different critters have actually different anatomy of hindlegs. There are semi-digitigrade mustelids , rodents, there plantigrade skunks and some canidae. ALso, equines have neither of those - their anatomy is different and visually close to F, but isn't same shape\structure.

Y guess B also can be divided into 5 and 4 toe subtypes. Hard to tell about shape, even humans have different types of foot shape, not to count rare regional variants (there are even some tribes who got only two toes on their feet).

really great idea and done
thanks for sharing it for us rest as well :J

Thank you very much!!

Very helpful! :3

Just to note:
Human leg is Plantigrade
Animal leg is Digigrade

This is really helpful !

Many, many thanks

Wow, these are fantastic! I'd love to see more references from you!

Rather like the A and B

Nice ref!

this is a helpful reminder, thanks :)

Anna:

Hm, how about foot=shin=thigh (so all the 3 leg parts of the same length) ? ^^ All of these have long thighs^^

thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou

Digitigrade is best grade.

Also thanks for the helpful chart.

"Oh my gott, what is it and why does it look like shit?!"

I think the better question is why you decided to post it as a reference sheet for others to follow at that point.

I think you're missing a version with both full digitigrade feet and a longer shin (at the cost of really fuckin tall characters) (ala twokinds / tom fisbach)

Damn if i had this months ago i could have saved alot of hardache commissioning someone my very first Reference sheet for my fursona>>

Thank you very much for doing this^^

PS: Drpickle was commissioned a set of similar References as these here...

THIS will help me a lot. I usually have trouble with anthro legs.

E is best

I use F alot

This is such a wonderful reference :>

Thank you.

ARRGH So many comments! :)

I'm posting this link to FurReal (Facebook group). It's amazing. :)

lol they are all awesome but the last one looks like a wet noodles xD

Hmm, a lot of my story characters have legs sort of in between B and D, but noooot quite C.

They're more like B, but they have D's foot-type. If that makes any sense.


Still, this whole chart is very helpful and informative! I'll have to def. keep it in mind, when Im developing OCs. c:


Love your leg anatomy, btw. Very believable~

Found this very interesting. Cheers!

okay if i use this as a base to make my own i'll reference you as the inspiration ect.

This is very helpful thanks!

A B C D i love so much i would love when more Artist draw it fantastic style

edit i mean only B and C.


would be cool when Mr wolfy-nail draw more of B and C :3

Such a helpful pic!

I would say my art encompasses the "B" style the most. Animal toes with paw pads too

Ah! I was looking everywhere for this the other day! Gonna fave this this time around 'cause it's incredibly useful! :3

cool c:

I saw this last year. But for some reason, I keep forgetting to fav it. @_@

I mostly draw digitigrade feet in G style, because it fits with my general "cute" style of my art.

Thanks for the ref, Wolfy. These help a lot.

Very usefull, thanks a lot

4000th fave! yay. ewe Thanks for this!

I like D and F

Love you for this

You have no idea how this help me all the time, really!

There needs to be a haunchy toony one at the end :P

auugghh i need one for lizards!!! turned frontward!!!

The last one looks very painful

ACK! This is exactly the sort of referency thing I needed! Bless you. <3 <3

oye! why no short femurs?

the last 3 have way too long thighs

Hmmm I guess you could say you got a LEG up on the commissioners huh?
you wanted to have them dip their FEET on different options.

Okay I'm done. I'll make like a pair of Legs and SPLIT

(I am not sorry )

I've been looking for a good tutorial of this for a while

Very useful! Thanks for posting!!!

Owooooo

This is a helpful reference that will help those of us who write as well to imagine what it looks like before it is put to words.

I know this is five years old by now, but still, thank you for taking the time to create something like this for people

A all the way :D

Wait... if humans had four toes, how would they play "This Little Piggy"? I just realized that today.

Noone draws the fifth toe on a furry it would be up higher on the foot just below the ankle.

I did something similar but for a horse. My fursona picture is the front view.

omg you're the source of this ref.

awesome!
now.. how do i draw fat obese furs?

I’m adding this :3

Legs are hard to do sometimes

Just fyi I still heavily use this.
Thank you Wolfy!

Thank you for the reference these are really useful and appreciated <3

Paws details are very important. I love the animal toes 2nd from the right. I would anyday transform into a wolf

i want you to know that this picture has stuck with me so long in the time since I first saw it (i got into furry stuff around 2014 with Skyrim Khajiits) that now, 8 years later, I scoured the internet to find it for reference now that I'm getting back into the furry community

E

really really helpful!!

Is it bad that I kinda like how the last one looks?