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Published: 2016-10-03 18:04:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1371; Favourites: 117; Downloads: 0
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I didn´t draw this for inktober but since I haven´t been able to scan today´s inktober yet, have thissome dog hind leg studies I did a week ago
each one took a couple of minutes, sketched directly with pen
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Beautiful work with your inking, I love the definition and shading, and your use of varied angles! ^^
Also nice to see a variety between the different legs, as they look like they've been drawn from different dogs. ^^
The only thing I would say is that in the top skeletal study, your metatarsals seem a tad short and the degree of curvature really looks a bit excessive (normally these bones look pretty straight: digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Scie… markasmithoca.files.wordpress.… www.exploringnature.org/graphi…), but I suppose it's not beyond variation in dogs that this is still within limits. The way the calcaneum and outer metatarsal bow backwards looks almost a tiny bit human here with the shape of the arch. Maybe just something to watch though if you're thinking of drawing skeleton doggies any time soon... But anyway, I guess it depends if you reffed off a dog or a breed with more atypical leg proportions/anatomy, in which case that would explain this. ^^
(I hope you don't mind this tiny bit of critique, the rest looks amazing, and of course I could never draw anything like this! 
Overall very amazing work, I envy your anatomy and ink skills! :'D
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hm you are right! i don´t remember the pictures i was referencing it from but i do remember they had more arch than I thought was normal. i will take that into account next time, thanks a lot!
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Ah, no problem at all - I just remembered from all dog (and indeed felid too) anatomy I was familiar with, the bones normally look very straight in side profile, so the arch looked exaggerated to me indeed (and also the metatarsal region as a whole looks a bit too thick in profile as well) - perhaps that reference was indeed a bit off? (sometimes I don't trust drawn diagrams etc. for that reason - they're not always drawn right! 
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i dont seem to be able to find whatever i was using as reference so i´m very confused rn. was it all a fever dream. are my sketches real at all
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Ah, Google images likes to play tricks with us - we look at a picture, then try to find it again and can't.
I think this was it though as it looks veeeery similar - and actually it's not even a hindleg, it's a front leg! :'D I was wondering when I looked at yours what was going on with the tarsal bones and why that region appeared to be so short (normally it goes further down and appear to form a little square/rectangular block), but this explains it then! (also, haha, your sketches are of course real - and REALLY awesome! 
This is the ref I think you used for the hindleg as it looks virtually identical (even though it's actually a front leg, but it's drawn kinda funny in the diagram so it looks a tiny bit like a hindleg):
www.merckvetmanual.com/media/p…
TBH, it's not even a great ref for a front leg, this is much better and more accurate (whoever made that diagram I think needs to go back and edit it!): hippie.nu/~unicorn/tut/img/bas…
s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/o…
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oh MM i know for sure it wasn´t that picture but UH i still cant friggin find what the heck did i use. it might have been a front leg tho because when I started drawing the legs I wasn´t going for only hind ones...........mmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Ah, no problem - it's very similar to that one though at least, I'm sure, as it looks like it a lot. ^^ No worries about it, it'll turn up - besides, if the diagram itself is off, maybe it doesn't matter if you don't find it as you won't be using it again.
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so simple
yet so perfect
like that anatomy
is spot on ahh
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ahh thank you so much <3
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This looks so neat and accurate, my studies are always squiggly ass lines or hairy sketches that are barely worth showing to anyone XD.. when ever I do make a study of something.. last time was billion years ago...
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So laaazyyyyyy Dx
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