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The reason I'm doing this is because I wanna , uh , kind of create that connection between how much detail and effort I actually put into drawing a human leg compared to what I just showed you , Co , though all those layers with the muscles and bones are much more complex than you will actually need to go into detail with to draw the the human or animal .

So the first thing I do is start off with a circle that resembles a bit of a hip shape .

The next thing is , I draw a line that resembles the larger upper leg bone and a joint , and then a line that resembles the , uh , lower leg .

And then often I draw the construction lines of a foot just by drawing like simple blocks block shapes like this .

Now I'm drawing one that's sort of divided into two .

Cos I'm gonna have the , uh , the foot kind of on its toes .

And then still , in this construction phase , I go into a some silhouettes .

So I just kind of roughly outline where I know the muscles kind of set out , and sometimes I might draw the muscles themselves just to make sure I get things looking right .

But you won't always need to do this .

Horses have very large hind areas , so you can see the proportion difference is quite large there .

And , uh , then we start off by just drawing the basic structures of the horse leg here .

That is how I would draw the construction area of a horse .

Then I would go to adding the meat on the bones , so to speak .

It's important to get a basic grasp how the , uh the muscles are proportioned or how the skin and fur sort of sits on the different animals .

Uh , as you can see , the horse leg example is very different to the early animal leg example that I showed comparing it to the human leg .

But the basics of how I would put it together is very similar .

Uh , you will notice that you we're not gonna need to go into detail into things like the toes or the foot because they have a a hoof , which hides a lot of those inner workings .

Um , even though they do sort of have those bones .

And then , of course , we get to the fun of just drawing the outline .

And then if I hide my construction work , you can see I've got the basics of a horse leg here .

Now , comparatively , let's say if I drew a wolf leg might draw something that starts off with the , uh , a larger hind leg area , but much smaller compared to the human and horse one .

Then we have the proportions kind of taking place so I'm gonna start adding my outlines .

And then once we're done with that , we get our line tool and do the same thing .

Now the cool thing about drawing things like wolf and cat and , uh , various other more canine or feline animals is you can add little details like hair kind of hanging out from some certain joints .

You also have that dew claw that I mentioned before .

And then , of course , you get the cool claws or pores that are at the bottom .

And then , of course , I hide my construction work to see how that's come together there .

Now , of course , they are some examples as to hind legs .

And let's do the same sort of thing with a front leg .

Let's say we'll do , uh , the front leg a cat .

So we have the cat sort of has a a very arched back a lot of the time , so we're gonna have a large sort of shoulder joint here , and then we'll have the bones of the front leg kind of joining there , turning into that hand sort of area Now , in reality , of course , I'm drawing this as big as the wolf leg , but it would be much smaller .

So I'm just gonna shrink that down so you can kind of make those connections and then we draw in the outline or the silhouette .

And then finally , we add the meat on the bone by during the outline .

Now I hope if I've conveyed anything at the end of all this , it's quite simply that it's easier than it looks .

It's more simple than , uh , early illustrators seem to sort of understand .

I would recommend that artists learn and familiarise themselves with human anatomy as much as possible , and then that knowledge can be taken and applied to various situations like this .

I'm actually not specifically interested in that role , but I'm really worried that I'm not gonna get a job .

And I think my best strategy is to just basically shoot out as many applications as possible , and it doesn't work like that .

You have to think about the cover letter and the resume as being indicative and representative of you and your brand as an employee in the market .

So if it's not special , don't send it