I Like Drawing Feet
Yes, it’s true. I do love drawing feet. My husband says that I draw them all “knobby” and articulate. I can’t help it. I like showing each little toe and curl and figuring out where the ankle goes. As you can see from the pics, I don’t always get that right… or even the foot position. I LIKE drawing feet, but I have a ways to go before getting really good at it.
Interestingly, I have a horrible time drawing shoes. I can never get the proportions or shape right. Someone suggested to me that I should draw bare feet and just “go over them” with the lines for the shoes. This is a really good suggestion. Unfortunately, I find that I care more about the feet than about the shoes and allow myself to slack off when it comes to the “going over” part.
In the comic for 8/3/2010, I got to draw three panels with bare feet. YAY! The feet I drew are shown in close-up after the jump below. (The red dots are fire ants.)
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It’s a major FEET how well your drawing has improved. ^_^ (Couldn’t resist the pun. You would make a great straight person for a (much better than me) comedian.
LOL at PattiT. I think you should try to draw feet and send it to me.
Hubby: You mean the feet I DRAW, right?
Dale: I’m always the straight man…not on purpose. HAHAHAH
Man I feel exactly the opposite way. I prefer shoes to feet any time. Well, I’m trying to work on changing that. But it’ll be some time before there are bare feet in my strip. (Although, technically, I kinda already do it as one of my characters wears sandals all the time)
Hi Eric! Welcome to Life’s a Witch. I checked out your comic. Very cute style!
I think it’s easier to draw feet in sandals..it kinda breaks up the lines nicely. Maybe you should do the reverse of what I have to do; that is, make the feet in sandals then remove the sandals! Hahaha
OOps, commented on the cartoon about the feet.