You draw teeth sooo cool. Like the way you draw teeth and jaws is the neatest thing ever, and the teeth look actually pointy. How do you draw jaws without somehow running out of room for all those teeth (I usually run out of room for some reason)
OOH TEEFS
(JACKAL TEETH FOR REFERENCE.)
OK. First and foremost: Use actual skulls and images of the closet animal as a reference. Then I used to block it in, and still do with new types of teeth. Put lines to block out how many teeth/how big before drawing the actual teeth. My rat teeth are designed as gnawer teeth, not regular rat teeth, as in a hunter or superpredator but the 'rat' part, bug incisors and gap between teeth, is still there. I plan on actually changing the design to be more of hyena-leopard based. (While maintaining big incisors and gap. I added canines to this oc but wether or not they'll go on gnawers is up in the air. It kinda fills in the gap in a way I like, but size would be adjusted.))
(Like wolf teeth but a bit 'blockier'. Fits the design and is a bit easier to draw. Wolf teeth on humans actually isn't hard! Block in normal human teeth and make them a bit pointier and drag out the canines/make them a bit wider. NORMAL HUMAN TEETH HAVE POINTS TOO!!)
ARES' teeth are based on actual fisher bat teeth, but with more gaps (like large fish eaters, such as crocodiles) and pronounced canines like the flying fox. makes the teeth look more vicious.
I personally tend to follow the rule of 3 for each face half if I'm bullshitting my way through it. 3 across front on each side before the canine, three big pointies, and three lil' points on a molar (There's three molars going back, which you usually can't see, never all of them.) for a total of 40 teeth. Adjust with size of skull to teeth, and species.
AND REMEMBER. Study and account for the way the lips/inner cheek cover a good portion of the teeth depending on how the mouth is flexed. Not all your teeth are on display ever unless your doing horror bullshit (which I do). I tend to pull the mouth pretty extreme to show off the teeths cause I like it, but if you shape it right it can look pretty natural.
Once you figure out the basics, even unnatural 'generic spiky' teeth can look just fine! MAKE TEETH CLUNKY THEY'RE BONES.
HAPPY TEETHING!
