They are very hard to do, but so are feet in general.
She looks really good though.

The always-angled look is fine on a quadruped's hind legs.

For a biped, people always want to draw a standing digitigrade with their legs bent. Try that with your own legs sometime -- it's tiring!

Maybe if you remembered the joints, their placement and direction, and that the feet look like "walking on toes," but otherwise kept a standing DG's legs straight?

Yes it is tiring... I've tried it for a bit a while back.

Really though, digitigrade is a very poor way to walk upright, since balancing gets fairly difficult... a tail would probably make it a bit easier though. when running however it gives a much better speed since the leg springs a lot more, and you don't need the same kind of balance while running, plus a tail helps greatly there, as you could lean even further ahead and run even faster.

But eh, I doubt I'll be drawing digitigrades all that much anyway... plus a straight digitigrade leg would be hard to make good looking, I think... but you never know until you try ^^'

personally I think it's more important to place the paws under the body's point-of-weight, or else the character would fall backwards. also, they would need a lot of balancing when they stand still.

in your above pic I would elongate the forelegs a bit more, and shorten the feet (not the paws themselves). I myself make the whole leg a bit longer and distribute upper leg, foreleg and foot by 2:2:1 (if that makes sense).


I like her body type, the mischievious expression, and the nice little dress. err, skirt. I mean, hankie. XD

you can't stand still while standing the way you described, because the paws are oputside the body's point-of-weight.

you are right, of course, digitigrade legs are muscle-power consuming, and evolutionary forces probably would eliminate them soon. but I think we can assume that, if any species would keep those legs, their muscles and tendons would be strong enough to keep them going.

"...If you move too fast, They're falling down like a Domino..."

Feet look fine!
She's cute.

Egypt cats - no probs. Likewise with the feet since I'm still learning to draw them properly meself ^^;