Toe Total
Added 2023-02-13 13:41:19 +0000 UTCAn interesting topic of drawn feet for artists and fans alike are the preferred number of toes a character should have.
I'm certainly not the first to ask this question but I thought it would be insightful to find out what everyone's thoughts on the matter are.
Will get this poll going just for fun but the subject can have a lot of nuance for discussion below if people fancy it!? There is no truly wrong or right preference to have and I will be offering examples in each option to show how there is space for every type.
No end date for this as its not a competition, also allowing for multiple choices because everyone's allowed to like more then one thing.
Comments
I'd stick with the number of toes the species actually has. Falco is a mystery, because how does he fit in those boots with a hind toe? Putting 3 toes on a 4 toed fox or 2 on a bird is odd. Setting a toe standard is also not going to work. You need to be flexible to the species and situation. Long live the paw of every species!
Zhathnor
2023-02-19 17:26:37 +0000 UTCThis conversation is toetally footy
Zhathnor
2023-02-19 17:24:19 +0000 UTCI typically find that an odd by-product of this approach is the inconsistent decision to have pads on 5 toed feet or not as they no longer resemble anything like a paw (Obviously this exudes Ursidae or Procyon types)! I get where your coming from as there is a missed opportunity to have the feet be interesting or thematically correct while humans already have the human look covered nice and distinctly. There are other odd contradictions with how people view this which I wont go into here but its always an interesting one to explore.
Footpaws
2023-02-19 12:31:50 +0000 UTC3 or 4 toes on my part are both fine. I’m fond of 5 toes irl, but when it comes to anthros I can’t help but find human-like feet dull. It’s not bad, but it feels uninspired. (I can compare it to like how Marvel does it in their movies: they take a basic human, slap green, blue or red paint on it and call it an “alien”)
Pawerup
2023-02-18 18:10:04 +0000 UTCYep, indeed! It's odd: I tried voting for all those the other day but couldn't figure it out. Oh well! ^^
Xss
2023-02-15 19:56:04 +0000 UTCFour often look better and I'm also not always cosistant with it.
Clair
2023-02-15 18:51:47 +0000 UTCThey were quite well drawn and it did become a sort of look for mutant types in the 80s/90s Not sure if you'd count him due to his heel claw but Foghorn Leghorn also comes to mind.
Footpaws
2023-02-15 00:57:16 +0000 UTCYou typically show off more fan art then OC stuff so its good to get your stance!
Footpaws
2023-02-15 00:51:52 +0000 UTC4 fingers, 4 toes. Very easy
Clair
2023-02-14 19:47:45 +0000 UTCDepends on the character imo! I generally like 4 for anthro OCs but the TMNT made me furry from a young age and those 2-toed feet are 👌
Torin Otter
2023-02-14 19:20:23 +0000 UTCTo play devils advocate on this one, I do think there is an active effort by the modern sonic team not to be bogged down by foot details. Sonic is a very stylistically designed character (Coolness over sexiness) and part of that design involves overly exaggerated features like hands and feet. They look right because they are both covered by gloves and shoes with a clear boarder of separation, but the moment those come off there's an undeniable proportion problem that makes putting digits on them look weird! So to maintain the style they opted to make the feet look as close to shoes as possible! (Encase your wondering my thoughts, I do think 5 is the correct number for Sonics crew as it is consistent with the number of fingers they have).
Footpaws
2023-02-14 13:17:12 +0000 UTCIt is interesting but I'm sure I'm not the first to make one like this. Its something people can feel passionately about and for me personally its about consistency. Nice to see some stats regarding it though for myself.
Footpaws
2023-02-14 13:02:22 +0000 UTC3-5 is the range for me. There's a bunch of characters that look cool for each one. 2 is okay, but miss me with 1 or no toed-feet. I'm still incredibly annoyed at the "canon" design for Sonic characters to have these weird, toeless, blob feet. It just makes them look strange and it bothers me.
2023-02-13 23:02:02 +0000 UTCPersonaly it depend of the character fir me ^^. I mostly prefer the 4 toes in general but I appreciate the 5 toes on character supposed to have like Ferret, Raccoon, bears :3 ! I also love 3 toes on cute characters like Fox/cats so if I should said my fav are not exist, I just appreciate 3 toes as much than 4 and 5 toes when the character is fit with thus number UwU ! Still a very interesting pole to do , thanks for this Footpaw ^^
Hake-Feretto
2023-02-13 22:24:13 +0000 UTCYes a dewclaw, couldn't think of the word
Infernal
2023-02-13 22:11:15 +0000 UTCLike a dewclaw then!
Footpaws
2023-02-13 22:05:21 +0000 UTCI think you can vote for all of those!
Footpaws
2023-02-13 22:03:51 +0000 UTCHard question, my favorite characters have different toe digits, but i think I'll go with 4 because I love classic dragon paws (3 big toes and 1 small)
Infernal
2023-02-13 20:50:28 +0000 UTCIt truly depends I feel...I would vote for 3, 4 and 5 toes if I could. ^^
Xss
2023-02-13 20:16:50 +0000 UTC