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At first when I tried to make the outline I ended up drawing the body of a cat! Figures, since I live with them. Anyways, many many trial and errors later, I came up with this. Now at least there is a reasonable body. Some experimental shading on the head. It took me longer than an entire day just to get this rough body outline to an acceptable level of grace and accuracy to me.
Working with a large pixel size helps to liberate from the crushing nuance demanded of lineart, but it is also a limitation because you have to work around the pixels in the detailed areas like the paws. Eventually I will reduce the pixel size.
I'm finding that after seeing so much art, I have a gut feeling for what the lines should look like though I haven't even tried drawing since I was quite young. I suppose it's always been in the back of my mind and so I've been mentally preparing all this time as I browse and listen to my brother talk about art technique. For the longest time it was too painful to watch myself fail.
I find what I'm learning now is more about connecting to that gut feeling well enough that the image can emerge without major perceptual distortions. I still think it's a kind of uncertain mix between different anatomies, but I'm not concerned with the mixing unless it disturbs the grace. I think it could be better, but this is a nice place to stop for the day.
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Thanks. So I drew a dog with lordosis. I've just seen so many cats it's hard to think of how a dog looks. I think I started out with the back end too high and didn't realize it, so the butt thing happened as a way to try and make things look right.
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It's a pretty good start for someone with more visual knowledge of cats than dogs. It doesn't help that there is SOOOO much variety in dog body shape, while it all follows a basic standard, there is so many subtle differences between breeds its hard to find that general canine shape. I hope the links I provided are helpful.
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Hey this isn't half bad! I really like your canid's head, and.... dude, even to this day I have problems drawing dogs since they come out with feline anatomy orz
The only thing that has truly proven useful is using photo references and measuring the heads in both so that I keep a slightly proportionate picture, but I always end up screwing something up ugh.....the fear of failure is one terrible thing for sure, it feels like being terribly constrained. When I get that feeling, I just doodle around with whatever I can find, heck, even crayons, and just do whatever comes to my mind while doing lines, feeling and hearing the pen scratching the paper and just focusing on that, no thoughts behind, almost in a childish way, at least until I remember again why I like drawing. Don't draw for others, draw for yourself and your own objectives, your own passion and wishes, and that way you'll get to find your own path for liking art making.
.....sorry, I got a little over the top haha, I'm sure you knew that already, but being reminded of it always helps, and writing it helped me as well.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm such a perfectionist, I just kept doing it over again until it looked right. There are few times when I'm creative, probably 1 minute out of every day, but after a long period of concentrating on work, those minutes seem to add up and eventually there are enough for things like this. I just wonder why I have so little of them. I think I'd be happier with more considering how much I like to look at drawings.
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Perfectionism is a great thing to have, just don't let it cripple you.
Hopefully you can build a bigger gallery with time, be more open for those creative instances and try doing a quick sketch whenever it happens, who knows what may come out from there! My favorite drawings come from situations like those, they have a more "authentic" feel hehe.
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This is a very good start! Pixels are always difficult to work with.
A couple things that jumped out at me that I believe bare mentioning:
-The placement of the ears is slightly off. A dog's ears follow the curve of the skull. The most forward part attaches slightly lower than the top of the skull, and the further back anchor (of what would be on a human, the lobe) is slightly lower than former.
-The body is mostly good, however there is a slight curve to the spine of a dog.
-Since you have indicated the area where the leg muscles start to go into the hip, it might also do to indicate where the front legs separate from the chest muscles.
-Dog butts are a little different from humans. The curve of his backside should slope a little more downward, as those muscles attach at and below the knee. The knee is also further down the leg than indicated in the image. About half of the leg bone goes past the belly.
Good Luck!
Some links that you might find helpful
http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/Fathead/dog\_muscular\_system\_medium\_prod?layer=comp&wid=444&hei=444&fmt=jpeg&qlt=95,1&op\_sharpen=1&resMode=bicub&op\_usm=0.5,0.2,0,0&iccEmbed=0&bgc=0xdedede&bgColor=0xdedede
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Dog\_anatomy\_lateral\_skeleton\_view.jpg/930px-Dog\_anatomy\_lateral\_skeleton\_view.jpg