Faun leg anatomy

I was asked a few weeks ago to help with creating a set of satyr legs. The main point I outlined was: only look at the biggest forms when filling out the wire frame with muscles. Keep the curves flowing; show the largest sweeps of these shapes to keep them dynamic; have them show the force of the muscles not just their outlines. Don’t get too hung up on individual muscles at the start, that detail is for later when you’re shading, make sure you’re drawing the big forms to start with. Some…

The legs and feet are the pivotal features of appearing as a faun. Horns, ears, beard, and syrinx are courtesy detail. Here are the different proportions of leg-bone lengths in goats and humans. Obviously, the centre of gravity of the creature must be above where he stands on the ground, otherwise he'll fall over. In practice, that puts a faun's hips exactly vertically above his hooves. Fauns have goat legs, and so I looked in some detail at goat anatomy in order to understand what's going…

From my previous post, here are a few ideas on gestures when it comes to the anthro legs. Firstly I look to draw the curves they create. I've posted before about the elastic energy that digitigrade and ungiligate legs reserve whilst walking, this is effectively why they are configured the way that they are. So simplify this to curves as if the legs were bamboo, bending, curving under strain. So long as you remember that with any stance, the ball of the foot/paw/hoof needs to be in contact…

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Animal legs

Monsters are fun and I'm going to show you how to draw a really cool one called a chimera. A chimera is a beast with three heads, normally a goat head

I challenge you

I’ve gotten a couple of requests with how I draw draenei legs, and I whipped up a quick anatomy reference, including muscular and skeletal structure. Though this shows a male’s leg, the same can be...