Siderian tutorial

How to draw my fantasy feline species - the siderian- correctly...Based on the many mistakes I have seen in fan works and mistakes I did myself....It is also useful to draw typical cats and to learn the difference with dogs.

This was a good exercise for me and I hope it will improve a lot of fanworks too.

You're allowed to draw your own siderian character, but please ALWAYS refer to me (my DA) and show me the result (I'm curious!! ) feel free to submit your fan work in the group

Siderians are as tall as a horse (although weigh less). They look roughly like a hybrid between a tiger and Oriental cat (extreme type Siamese), with some influences of the Eurasian lynx, like the big paws.
With this video you get a good feeling about the siderian appearance www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&fea… (but keep in mind that Oriental cats have more gracile legs than cheeds).

Individual siderians vary largely in the % of tige, Oriental cat lynx represented in their anatomy, but all siderians have:
- the overall body shape, powerful frontlegs, large shoulderblades and narrow hind-legs and butt of a tiger.
- the head of either an Oriental cat, tiger or something in between (although the eyes are smaller than in cats and the head has more the pantherine 'heaviness'.
- the headlenght - shoulderheight - bodylenght proportions (but this approx. the same in Oriental cats as well) and huge paws of a Eurasian lynx (some have a slightly longer body or slightly shorter legs).

Some examples of siderians with various influences of the three felids:
*Tiger-biased

*Oriental cat-biased:

*Lynx-biased:


Siderian species and art by me!! Please don't copy and/or use it without my permission!
...srry for the typos...