Kano approves

I love the long and short honestly <3

The helmet type. Makes me think of X-coms.

Very cool! :D

this is SO helpful! I struggle with cobra hoods on my characters all the time so thank you for this!

always a challenging idea when designing cobra characters. great work, this makes a perfect reference

I'll try to share any of my thoughts in the future about challanging designs or anathomy topics. ^^ I'm glad you like my mini reference!

thanks a bunch, always happy to learn from other artists

I LOVE THIS!
I have a snake girl myself that has a hood, I got her recently, and this will certainly help me when drawing her ^^
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/31175030/

Very helpful resource Viktria, thank you!

oooh this is good really good this well help me draw cute female cobra in future sweet X3

If anything the simple most traditional hood is the first hood the one it reach down to the lumbar bones the one that rests on the chest area the collar bone? (Not sure but second hood) it seems more of a very uncomfortable postiotion in my designs I have made I tried to think of the hoods connecting to top of the trapizlaters (Your back muscales that make a shape of a kite. Top portion. PS I can't speak it's been a long time since I looked into anatomy LoL 😋) to give the hood that site feel but I guess it be how the Character looks when their hoods are close for the corba hoods show when they are threatened and such. So it's best know that thier hoods should reflect their emontions.

(And I call myself an artist when I can't understand anatomy LMAO 😅😂)

I prefer the long version. Makes her head seem less... cluttered, I guess, if that makes sense.

Me to, and I probably prefer even more something middle between both pictures from Zummeng.

Very good variations.

Slightly disappointed cause from the thumbnail I thought it would be one of those "If a Cobra wore a hoodie would it be like THIS or like THIS" memes

A very interesting study!

Definitely one of the coolest things you came up with. You've been using it so nicely to work in tune with their face expressions, it's great

Very nice! I like the shorter hoods for sure.

:D Thank you!

Now I'm imagining cobra hoods big enough they can fly with them.. 🤔

It's not impossible :U Everything is possible on paper.

Ooooh, I'm so glad you've done this as I'm currently practicing drawing Zaphira myself :3 And of course very nice classification of hoodies~

I'm so glad she inspired you! ^^ Thank you!

So pretty. It feels like "short" would be more convenient but "long" looks a bit more feminine. Oh and Zaphira is for sure one of the most adorable character I saw so far, and her hood and the emotions they reflect is one part of it.

Thank you so much for this! I greatly appreciate it!

I always love these sorts of exercises, trying to explore how these characters could work! I'd almost like to see "fringe's" on the hoods, like hardened scales that give a "spiked hair" look, or a "Hoop" scale to have it look like ear rings. So much you could do to make them look so diverse, and unique.

The more I try to understand the characters and how their parts funcion so to say, then the anatomy exercise works much more smoothly, that's for sure :)

I like your thoughts about the scales :D Hood and scales are very important combination.

I've got two characters like this (well, 1 and a half, Pep's a cobrat), and I usually set hoods low. I believe Pep is in my sketches.

I have been working on a redesign for one of my species for a long while now, and the big hangup was that I decided that they needed to have Cobra hoods, but couldn't decide on how it should look in relation to this exact thing: how it attaches to the head, neck and shoulders. This will be very helpful for ideas, thank you!

You can't draw a real life-like cobra hoody if you want tp draw your character with a humanoid body, I think you can only imitate it. It's not easy to find the right line between animal and the human anatomy that works well, so everyone has a different result. So you have to do tests or look for other ideas. I'm glad my ideas were helpful ^^.

Speaking of which, it is clear that everyone approaches this differently. Though I am curious where you draw your inspiration from when you draw snake hoods.
As in, when you draw its overall shape, do you think of them being heavy bags or balloons or pieces of cloth to give them this soft organic look? (ergo, what are your references :3 )

They all look so good, I'm having lots of trouble deciding which I like most, though!

I think they all look so amazing!

Interesting and helpful hood instructions. They are quite useful!

I'll definitely consider using these references next time when I draw my cobra gal again. You're really good at drawing these hoods and I could make use of a few pointers.

Very nice.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *DIES* actually i was working on a shorter hood possibly for the one i have in my brain lol

aw, the helmeted one would be a great choice for a warrior or mage character O: awesome designs!

I just differently adapt the structure of the hood of real cobras +sometimes I make an extra row of "ribs"