SO YOU WANNA DRAW CATS AND DOGS BUT THOSE PESKY SNOOTS GET IN THE WAY

Here’s a hopefully helpful tutorial on how to draw them from memory but it also helps to understand and break down how to see their structure when you use reference!

Remember, it’s always best to learn the anatomy of an animal first before trying to stylize it. This way you know the rules and can choose which ones to break!

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This is my basic process for pretty much everything I draw. The key is understanding the shape of the garment you’re trying to draw and the shape of the body part you’re putting it on.

Drawing the body first forces you to make the shoe, hat, or clothes fit that body. With practice you’ll be able to skip some steps. This method works the same no matter the perspective or pose. It just relies on your knowledge of what a hat looks like from above, or what the bottom of a shoe looks like. When in doubt, just google refs. Don’t necessarily need the exact angle you’re trying to draw. Look at different pics to give you an idea of how it works in 3d.

Shoes are always a bit tricky because feet are a stupid ass shape.

It might help if you think of hats as a cylinder fitted to the person’s head to help you get the perspective right before you push in detail. note: heads aren’t circles. they’re kind of egg shaped if you look at them from the top.

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“ Waaah- Okay, got it!” Zepheron picked up the stick, carefully balancing the pile of woods in his hands. “ I’m a magician but I still have to gather fire wood…” He mumbled to himself. His magic was nature magic though, and that didn’t really involve levitation.

Zepheron made his way the little camp he had started in a small clearing, staggering under the weight of his load. He tripped, tumbling over and dropping all of his sticks and branches. “ Ugh…..” He looked up, before letting out a loud swear, pushing himself to his feet.He then went about the task of picking them all up, and trying to arrange them for a fire. He should hurry, it was almost dark, and who knows what one could find in the woods at night. 

Two eyes reflecting the small amount of light in the area could be seen peering out from across the clearing, the top of his head and ears harder to see, their neutral tones fading into the rest of the forest. Confused and alarmed, he seemed to be watching the pile of sticks. 

Nap was aware that humans liked to make fires, but this human didn’t seem to know what he was doing. The hunters and mappers who usually came through tended to make a small circle with rocks, then put the logs in a certain formation, small sticks underneath, and then dry leaves on top of those. 

He had never liked fire much, though he hadn’t been near it at length. He only really knew that it had more potential to destroy than potential to create, and that he shouldn’t touch it. He took a cautious step out from the tree, hoping he hadn’t been spotted. He wanted to get a better look at what that man was doing…

Zepheron arranged some rocks in a circle around it to create his barrier, before stepping back and admiring his work. “ Seems good enough.”He muttered, before pointing his staff at it. “ Inferna.” And with that one word, flames started to lick up in his fire pit, casting an orange glow around the clearing.

Zepheron then wandered back towards the edge of the clearing to gather more wood to keep his fire burning. He bent down, but then paused as he saw a shape in the dim light. He couldn’t quite make it out, but he could see it was humanoid. He dropped his sticks, backing away from the trees slowly staff held in front of him

“ Whose there?”

Sick of Sunshine

     “Wait until nightfall. It’ll be easier to show and tell than to simply tell you and I cannot show you in the view of the public.” Circadian replied knowing that she was being rather cryptic. “You have brought me here and are giving me a place to stay. That’s all the help I’ll need from you for right now and I thank you. Tonight, I promise, I will show you.”     Circadian quit speaking right then and there as they drew closer to the gate. The guard was met with a wary eye and bared teeth. All of it was for show and once Zepheron had paid the guard, she trotted in after him. ‘If those shady guys are their front lines of defense, I don’t have much faith in the rest of the populace.’ She passed a short whine up at Zepheron and  ‘smiled’ ever so slightly. ‘No harm done, friend.’ It was a very clear shift in expression from the otherwise wary, suspicious look she had about her both before and afterwards. ‘Ishould probably work on some sort of code with him. Until then, I suppose this guesswork will have to do.’     The meridian’s eyes followed Zepheron’s directions, trying to remember them for later use. As he mentioned the slums, Circadian stopped in her tracks. She was looking off in it’s direction, taken aback by the fact that it even existed. Khubar’s guards may have been shady, but at least the city-state as a whole wasn’t like Marshport. Marshport’s government classed every family homestead. Any considered “beneath” a certain line was wiped off of the streets. With a startled look, she realized that his hand was pointed elsewhere then, off in the direction of the Academy. Hurrying after him, she ran up to his side with an apologetic and almost expectant look. That’s where they were going?

“ Yeah, I wouldnt go wandering about in the city alone.” Zepheron explained, indicating towards how people were staring at them as they passed. “ If you didn’t get it,  wolves aren’t really a common, or welcomed sight around here.” Even he drew back a little at the sight of those teeth as she “smiled”.

He turned down an alley, heading towards the big stone building. “ I know it doesn’t seem like much, but its allot nicer on the inside. Cause, you know magic.” He flashed a little grin of his own. “ Its where they train the government magicians. Those who do things for the city. Protect it from sandstorms, water the crops, and keep the river that runs in the middle of the city full stuff like that.” 

Late for an Exam

    “Yes, yes, I know what it looks like.” Circadian answered, doing her best to assure him. She reached for his blankets and dragged them off of his bed and onto the floor in a pile separate from the books. “Not there.” She grunted before shimmying underneath  of a table and back out again.    “Not there either. Erk. Next time, I’ll remind you to lay it out the night before.” Circadian intentionally took responsibility off of his shoulders, seeing as how sounding accusatory might fluster him further than he already was. “Why don’t we just go ask him now? It’s obviously not in here, and the more you dawdle, the more time gets eaten up. C’mon!”  Call her eager, but the sooner he found them, the sooner she could get back to bed or possibly get food. Either one sounded really nice right about then.

“ Ask him?” Zepheron grimaced “ If he does have it, he’s not gonna give it back. “ He’s....kind of....scary.” Zepheron said slowly, scratching the back of his head. “ Yeah, I’d rather not deal with him, to be honest.” He started shifting through things a little, and glanced under his bed. “ I could probably just deal without the book...Can’t go without the staff though, that’d actually be dangerous.”

He pulled back the curtain to the cut out that could be considered his closet, His staff was leaning against the wall near a pile of clothes. “ Why’d I put it there?” He shook his head, grabbing it.

Trip to London

“Yeah! I mean, I am not very good at reading but I still think it is fun! I like to read all kinds of books! And mama and dad help me read if I need them to, so that is great!”

“ Thats good that you like to read Baruch.” Zepheron smiled down at the boy “ And even better if your parents help you. My  mother didn’t know how to read, so I learned at the Academy. Anyways, maybe we could go to the library together then sometime. What sort of books do you like to read, Baruch?”

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