lowkey just curious but do u have any tips for drawing yautjas? :]
Hi! Tbh this is somewhat difficult to answer, and is specially because of their heads that is the biggest "anomaly" compared to the rest of their bodies. I'll be just listing the things I noticed trough all my time drawing them, so I hope this helps.
First of all, their mouths are similar to ours in terms of how they open and close, but the skin of their cheeks is attached to the tusks. This is pretty clear when you look at pictures but when I first started drawing them this was one of my biggest isues.
The tusks are like extra bones connected to the jaws, formed by two joints, base and fang mobility.
Here is a little example using said pictures. It might seem like the upper tusks have three joints but no, they are just kinda close to the inner mouth and the upper jaw sides sometimes can be mistaken by part of the tusk. While doing this I noticed I use to do that tiny error.
Their heads are a lot more easier than some might think. The position and size of the eyes are same as ours because remember many of the movie predators are actors with massive build heads.
It consist in two parts: a crest and the hard skin that covers the base of the tresses, sometimes being more spiked, bumpy, or smooth
This, however, is not always the rule and the appearance of it can change drastically. Just look at Wolf and the emissaries (Sorry for the quality lol) or even Feral and Berserker but these two have the excuse of being a subspecies.
Hands are similar to us too but more scaly. Sometimes they have a side claw just like their feets an the texture depends, bumpy, plated or just textured like the rest of the boddy. The finger pads are just their normal skin but subespecies like Feral look like if they had something similar to gecko pads.
I tend to do them plated, is more fun to me
Gender dimorphism depends a lot on what you want to do. Its said that females are sleeker and with tiny, sharper mandibles (Hunting grounds) and some others say they look exactly the same as males and bigger (Mig mama / Dachande mention, AvP: prey - Novel) . Just have fun I guess. However! As a species that does a lot of phisical activity, it leads to a lower overall body fat percentage, which includes less fat tissue in the breasts
I might add more but this is what I can think about for now, thanks for leaving your ask :D
