
Paw Fashion 1: bare paws
This is the first installment of a little project I've had in my head for a while. By drawing a set of Doran paws and legs, I can experiment with a bunch of different types of paw attire for anthros. This'll be a series I'll work away at now and then, designing fun ideas for pawboots that can fit digitigrade anthrodragon legs.
So! For starters of course we have the underlying template I'll be working with, as well as the all-natural classic of just going barepaw. I'm quite pleased with how this turned out, as I started just intending for it to be a fairly quick and simple template. But, I couldn't really leave things alone (Because hey, paws!) and kept working on it, getting some help from
Tarkara and looking at various reference art to try and get the leg musculature to look right. The result was one of my favorite paw drawings to date!
So! For starters of course we have the underlying template I'll be working with, as well as the all-natural classic of just going barepaw. I'm quite pleased with how this turned out, as I started just intending for it to be a fairly quick and simple template. But, I couldn't really leave things alone (Because hey, paws!) and kept working on it, getting some help from

Category Artwork (Digital) / Paw
Species Western Dragon
Size 950 x 1020px
File Size 326.7 kB
Very impressive! These are really close to how the footpaws look on my own dragon design (which has not seen the light of the fandom yet, heh). The positioning of them and the strong showing of the tendons and splayed toes is excellent for the digitigrade type stance. The pads are really interesting too - not often something seen on dragons. On my own, he is technically plantigrade, but if he were to stand on his toes, it would look very much like this. Yours seems to be more the opposite where there's a hint of potential to plantigrade, but he is not. Anyway - very sexy! Hopefully not the last we see of those nice feet. :)
Thanks! :) By this point I've got no shortage of pictures of my own paws in my gallery so feel free to have a look if ya like. I do really like the design of them, pawpads don't seem to be so common on dragons but I've seen them here and there. It does feel to me like in order to be digitigrade while walking on two feet the paw would need to be large enough with nicely splayed toes to distribute the weight and balance, and I was pretty happy with how I got the tendons and muscles to look since I haven't focused so much on legs before now. :)
It is as you say, I'm digitigrade but with that little vestigial heel pad I probably could walk plantigrade too a bit if I wanted to for a short while. Might feel pretty awkward though!
In any case, there are more Doreypaws in my older work as well as more to come. ^^ I'm glad you like them!
It is as you say, I'm digitigrade but with that little vestigial heel pad I probably could walk plantigrade too a bit if I wanted to for a short while. Might feel pretty awkward though!
In any case, there are more Doreypaws in my older work as well as more to come. ^^ I'm glad you like them!
They are tricky things to draw! Took me quite a while and a good deal of practise to get to where I am now, and I'm a bit paw-obsessed so I was kind of driven to keep at it. Best advice I can offer is two things:
1) Look at lots of reference material. Be observant. Use your own feet for reference! Use photos of real world critters. If you're trying to draw something like dragon paws that don't have an obvious real-world analogue, browse artwork until you find examples that look 'right' to you and see how those artists did them, pay attention to proportions, where the muscles seem to go, that kinda thing. Typing things like 'paw tutorial' into FA's search system will probably find some helpful tips, too.
2) Practise lots! Draw all the paws and feet ever, and be honest with yourself that a lot of them aren't going to turn out the way you want at first. But the more you have things turn out not the way you want, the more you can realise what looks 'off' about it and then you'll know what to work on next.
Hope that helps a little! :)
1) Look at lots of reference material. Be observant. Use your own feet for reference! Use photos of real world critters. If you're trying to draw something like dragon paws that don't have an obvious real-world analogue, browse artwork until you find examples that look 'right' to you and see how those artists did them, pay attention to proportions, where the muscles seem to go, that kinda thing. Typing things like 'paw tutorial' into FA's search system will probably find some helpful tips, too.
2) Practise lots! Draw all the paws and feet ever, and be honest with yourself that a lot of them aren't going to turn out the way you want at first. But the more you have things turn out not the way you want, the more you can realise what looks 'off' about it and then you'll know what to work on next.
Hope that helps a little! :)
Of course! :) Please feel free. If you end up drawing something that looks pretty similar to the reference material it's good form to credit the original artist and work, but otherwise I'm happy for you to make use of it and I'd love to see what you come up with!
:) thanks,il credit u for sure! :D here it is! :D http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16726041/
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