Thread:Abbykurle/@comment-43643973-20191102215344/@comment-32657625-20191208052432

Hind legs were my greatest foe up with until this spring, where we got cats and I could study their legs more... it's really difficult with their floofy fur getting in the way of structure viewing, though, but floof is very good in every other regard... now I want to go huh a cat immediately, aaahhhh

I first noticed that hind legs were different when I was watching MLP in third grade, but I didn't really care about drawing back then and all I did was stick figures, so I had no clue what I was doing and started drawing completely straight hind legs with big dents in the back. It looked really odd, like someone had taken a bite out of their upper hind leg, but the habit stuck with me for longer than it should have. Then I started basing the legs off of a Z or S -ish shape, but I always forgot which way it went...

I liked the cell-shading style I sometimes use in the AJ paint studio because it was easy to cheat on hind legs due to simplicity and blockiness.

Another weird thing that I keep doing is making snouts too short, but since I don't base everything off of realism, I guess it's a style choice...?

Like, uh, this sounds weird, those anime guys with anatomically correct muscles in their arms but then really weird-looking  noses

But one other thing that drives me up a wall is C L O T H I N G   F O L D S

I spend an unhealthy amount of my time staring at the creases and folds in people's clothing, trying to gain a better understanding of it

But then, naturally, they wonder why I'm staring at them

Furtivenessssssss