There is a third way! Where the animal ears are positioned closer to where human ears would be, taking their place (example: Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet).
@spindash64
4 ай бұрын
That's what I was thinking, too. Can be great for giving the impression of "droopy" ears, too
@norad_clips
4 ай бұрын
@@spindash64 quite!
@roxashunter8879
4 ай бұрын
I do think it is the most underused nowadays, it was more common in older shows and anime, and I think I prefer it that way, it looks good and more realistic.
@jesst_a_frog
4 ай бұрын
There is an even more secret 4th way where you extend the base of the ears to where you would expect human ears to be but make the ears overall larger so it’s not completely out of proportion
@nextombz
3 ай бұрын
It's best for deer ocs!
@Asodym
4 ай бұрын
Cats have their ears high on their heads because the holes in their skulls are higher up but cat humans would still have the same skeletal structure as humans. Cat people's ears should connect to the ear holes so i think the actual solution is making the base of the ears extend farther down. The ears would still point up, but they'd extend a bit around the head down to where normal human ears would be.
@Beeeeeewwwww
Ай бұрын
Wouldn't that make them look more like dog ears though?
@Asodym
Ай бұрын
@@Beeeeeewwwww Only for a few breeds of dogs but those dogs' ears do actually just look like cat ears anyway; however, there are some subtle shape differences that you can optionally put in your art. I think even then, it doesn't really matter because that ear shape will read as cat ears. Make them taller above the head and they'll read like fox ears most likely, although that also depends on colour. Generally, when people want to portray a dog character, they will use an ear shape unique to dogs. Either way, since this just makes the ears more anatomically accurate to cats, I don't see how they could register less as cat ears.
@OneBiasedOpinion
Ай бұрын
So basically Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet.
@Asodym
Ай бұрын
@@OneBiasedOpinion Her ears start at the right point but they don't extend far enough up the head to look like cat ears. The ears should still come out the top of the head like they do on cats, it's just that they should also wrap around the sides a bit to account for the shape of the human skull.
@the711devin4
Ай бұрын
Or perhaps cat people’s ear canals would wrap around the cranial cavity, like the optic nerve does in mammals
@pebblebrowser
4 ай бұрын
Ay I didn't expect the no side ear image to look so normal tbh idk it looks really nice to me
@figard9855
Ай бұрын
For real
@markomega8719
Ай бұрын
Also it looks like she's trying to show her face to me, so that's a plus.
@crowqueenamps
27 күн бұрын
I think the fact they included a bit of hair fluff their helps a lot. It adds something to the empty space so it doesn't feel so empty.
@headphones2308
15 күн бұрын
Personally, I go the 3rd route. Draw the cat ears where the human ears are supposed to be. So they’re basically elf ears, but covered in fur. Answers a lot of internal anatomy regarding ear canals and how they connect to the rest of the body internally.
@vnmememan8657
14 күн бұрын
Thats the one I absolutely despise, it looks wrong, unnatural and honestly just kinda bad, I'm glad no one does it
@tron-do7ii
14 күн бұрын
Thats the one I absolutely adore, it looks cool, functional, and honestly pretty good, I’m glad you're doing it
@vnmememan8657
14 күн бұрын
@@tron-do7ii i see what you did there, but I won't judge you too harshly, its your preference
@flyingfetus4364
12 күн бұрын
I am blind, but I will judge you very harshly, you hate this
@flanfre_skarlett
4 ай бұрын
Yes! He agrees with me! What about whiskers and third eyelids and the correct pupils, what about well placed tails. People get catgirls extremely wrong
@Sly-Moose
4 ай бұрын
The tail, yes. The eyelids? Idk. And the whiskers/cat nose is just too weird looking on a person face for me. Makes me uncomfortable.
@flanfre_skarlett
4 ай бұрын
@Sly-Moose Idk, man. I draw my catgirls hust like this and people love it
@onyxnobody
4 ай бұрын
at this point just draw a cat
@flanfre_skarlett
4 ай бұрын
@@onyxnobody No. I want them to have human fingers and human bodies so they can wear US woodland BDU and carry tactical rigs and weapons and helmets. Also, I want them to be big enough to hug. Hugging a cat feels like hugging a piece of fragile glass. I need a catgirl that can hug back. A humanoid that has fibers on her tongue, which she can use like a hairbrush. I need a humanoid that is 7 times more perceptionate and cautious due to her extra ears, face and ear whiskers, increased sensitivity, etc. I want a human with a tail! I want to rub a humanoid cat's tail! I want to gear her up in human gear and with human weapons and fight by her side!
@onyxnobody
4 ай бұрын
@@flanfre_skarlett ok then, i dont mind 👍
@AryaFadhilahRamadhani-rh9zs
15 күн бұрын
Very genius! This is the first time I've seen someone draw a cat girl without making her have 4 ears.
@LootGoblinPenny
2 ай бұрын
One reasoning for having both animal and human ears is just vestigial ears, a remnant of evolution that was never removed because there was no major need to get rid of them.
@Micah.Lau.navi.
Ай бұрын
Or they could act like extra actual ears, which might be why catpeople (?) dislike loud noises (Kinda like irl cats)
@MazHazPazzaz
Ай бұрын
@@Micah.Lau.navi. Always how I interpreted four ears for animal people hybrids. Two human ears that function normally, and two animal ears that are far more sensitive or evolved to ear something specifically. Like pointing in a separate direction to hear things better infront or to the side.
@Micah.Lau.navi.
Ай бұрын
@@MazHazPazzaz Very interesting...
@captainremington5109
Ай бұрын
Or, it could be because catgirls are popular in Japan, and Japan fetishized ear cleaning, so four ears is better than two.
@Micah.Lau.navi.
Ай бұрын
@@captainremington5109 Wut
@ShiraBrattyCatChief
4 ай бұрын
Roni really showed motivation to my soul with cat girls.
@sirultim8643
15 күн бұрын
It still looks normal, I feel like that’s skill
@juicyjuustar121
2 ай бұрын
for this reason i have a character who is a burly cat man who is entirely bald. no hair to hide the fact that he lacks human ears
@SmartyPoohBear
Ай бұрын
Burning question is... does his cat ears have fur? Are his cat ears also bald?
@juicyjuustar121
Ай бұрын
@@SmartyPoohBear the ears are in fact bald. look at a picture of an IRL sphynx cat for an idea of what it'd look like
@MorpheousXO
Ай бұрын
Nice!
@jamiek8123
Ай бұрын
ok but a cool thing with four ears is that they would have pin point hearing. see there's an interesting thing with sound where the brain can compare the delay in when one ear hears something compared to the other and so tell direction. but with just two ears we only have direction, and mostly just left or right side, we then rotate our heads around to narrow down the range, with four ears you would be able to pin point where in space the sound came from, and I just think that is so cool, and I really wanna see a character utilize four ears to do that, like be an even greater tracker as they just point to where ever sound came from.
@palmberry5576
18 күн бұрын
Who needs hydrophones when you have cat girls lmao
@ericbright1742
14 күн бұрын
Just thought of something. Since modern humans have headbands with cat ears, would it not follow that in a modern setting with catfolk, someone would make and market to them headbands with human ears? In this essay I will...
@hyzmarie
4 ай бұрын
One wacky thing I like to do is draw elf ears like the ears you might see on, say, a dragon. That way they can be more teardrop or triangle shaped depending on how sweet or menacing the character is, and they can be raised and lowered for emotion! (I stole this idea from Dragon Prince, I confess)
@imMittensKitten
2 ай бұрын
ooo you've watched Dragon Prince! also that's a great tip :D
@hyzmarie
2 ай бұрын
@@imMittensKittenI love it so much :)
@imMittensKitten
2 ай бұрын
@@hyzmarie yesss it is a great series :D
@VioletZe
4 ай бұрын
I personally have the ears connect around where the human ears should be cos realistically thats where they would go
@MorpheousXO
Ай бұрын
"realistically" They're fantasy people. They can just as realistically have the ear holes on top of their heads.
@mirkwood579
2 ай бұрын
Nah, you gotta give them 4 ears to give them better vertical sound locating abilities-- We can't let them get ambushed from above.
@emberd-l795
2 ай бұрын
I like the idea of putting cat ears further down on the head so they’re closer to where human ears would be
@proxy90909
Ай бұрын
Double pair of ears are superior for 3D spacial hearing just like owls have an ear lower and one higher it should allow for distinguishing sounds "higher" (in position) and not only if far or close aswell as left right
@Starmanstriker
2 ай бұрын
This vaguely reminds me of that Wolf Woman from Dog Days anime.
@nocount7517
14 күн бұрын
And then you have shilin, the creator of the webcomic _Carciphona_ who has the ears coming off the side of the head, where human ears would have been.
@EvoWatches
4 ай бұрын
A Minotaur pitted against a centaur would be cool to see
@xcess7
Ай бұрын
Thank you for this. I’m glad some people will go far enough to show that human-like characters with animal features will have the animal ears only. Glad this short found me!
@MadAliceInWonderland
Ай бұрын
I agree! Having the human ears down there in addition just makes it look like the character is wearing a cat ear headband.
@Sickcrazyneet
Ай бұрын
That sounds like a skill issue on your part
@LegendaryDorkKnight
16 күн бұрын
FFXIV never shies away from showing you the sides of miqo'te and viera heads. It's to the point where it's not even uncanny to me anymore. My viera characters even has short hair now because my brain has just accepted it now.
@xuanduyphantrinh8753
Ай бұрын
I prefer 4 ears since I like both cat ears and human ears. The reveal of that area without human ears just doesn't feel the same
@bluchismoon
21 күн бұрын
The four ears one just reminds me of the tumblr drawing where someone does the reverse catgirl and draws human ears on a cat and then does the four ear one.
@opinionofmine3238
Ай бұрын
The fantastical creature explanation works just as well for ...well, mostly anything, really, including the four ear hypothesis. And I do think that one is better.
@Secarious
Ай бұрын
Actually that's how they've always been in my head cannon. No human ears
@professionalaccount8012
27 күн бұрын
There is something so mortal in watching you redraw the hand 300 times just to get it -just- right at the increased speed. I felt that so.
@mikiru_0914
Ай бұрын
gosh i LOVE the way he renders the hair. in the timelapse just LOOK AT THE WAY THE LIGHTER COLOURS EXPLODE. omg
@tomjames9681
4 ай бұрын
Kienan Lafferty was ahead of his time.
@ericbright1742
23 күн бұрын
This is one of my favorite details in FF14. The Miqo'te (catboys/catgirls) and Viera (bunny boys/girls) only have one set of ears. This also goes along with the emote to listen to their "linkpearls" (magic-based ear buds). Every other race goes to the side of their head to press down on their ear to listen. The cats and buns move their fingers a few inches higher, to press down on the base of their cat/bunny ear.
@Fangria
Ай бұрын
i like giving the character just really big ears that start where human ears start and end on top of the head.
@crystallight808
24 күн бұрын
I like making my animal ears either super big or on the sides of the head where the actual ear area would be on a human skull because changing that changes the entire human skull anatomy😅
@lifjyruss
Ай бұрын
I have talked about this so often with people who don't care! LOL it's great to see somebody else thinking the same thing
@AlphaDaArtist
2 ай бұрын
I remember The KNKL Show (a.k.a Kienan Lafferty) drawing characters like that with just the animal ears as well, and I also wish people drew those types of characters like that as well lol
@SushiKat_Studios
Ай бұрын
This is why I connect my cat ears to the base of where the ear would be, saves a lot of trouble & is easier to draw from more complex angles
@brbdogking7643
Ай бұрын
Honestly the unsettling part is there being just a bald spot there, covering it a bit more with short hair makes it look so natural.
@Karyl02
20 күн бұрын
Man now I won't be able to see Karyl the same way again
@Space-Milk
2 ай бұрын
My brother doesn't have ears lol so I'm used to the uncanniness of seeing the side of the head without ears
@jjaa_joyjoyartist
21 күн бұрын
I usually draw my cat ears where the human ears are, like a hybrid of a usual human ear with them in a way
@KBY30
Ай бұрын
I kind of like it when the animal ears reach to where the human ears would have been or close to it.
@tyruku18
2 ай бұрын
I usually make characters with kemonomimi with the human ears getting replaced with the type of kemono (like cat ears). Covering some part of the area near the ear being covered by the tuffs of furs. Similar to the artists who did Utawarerumono and the sequel duology.
@DiamondAppendixVODs
4 ай бұрын
Or draw the cat/animal ears growing from the side of the head, where ears are supposed to be!
@andrehashimoto8056
4 ай бұрын
That works for Holsteins/Cowgirls. But Cat/Dog/Fox girls? Nah, look way too odd
@Lowseeds
Ай бұрын
hope you get well
@KiraiKatsuji
Ай бұрын
Finally someone put what i always thought, and also still super cute/hot
@anonimolmayankullanc6824
4 ай бұрын
I thought they were not actual cat ears. Well I did learned something new today I guess.
@MrEel-dc4kh
4 ай бұрын
My headcanon is that a catgirl's ears are just cartilaginous protrusions and don't have any hearing capability. The real ears are where they should be.
@Imaizuko
2 ай бұрын
My Headcanon (only for kasha) Cat ears are for hearing spirits and souls. Human ears are for hearing like a normal human.
@blackdragon796
Ай бұрын
In my opinion it would be better to jave both sets of hears. So they use their animal hearing to hear sounds their human hears can't hear. And when it is too noisy or they want to listen to music, they cover the cat ears. So they keep having the best of both worlds.
@steve_cat5504
22 күн бұрын
I like the way they did Catra in Shera, her ears are on the side of her head
@DracoJ
2 ай бұрын
Personally I like the idea of the "animal ears" being false ears that only serve to amplify sound or something and cool down blood more easily but the normal ears still function normally. It would be really weird to make a skull with ear canals going through the top. Perhaps acting like the little can a string thing. Where some fleshy doohiky on the inside runs down to the ear canal to deliver sound from the false ear. Or literally just being vein filled flaps of skin and hair that resemble fluffy ears for blood cooling like jack rabbits. I personally focus a lot on the speculative biology, paleoart, and fantasy anatomy genres of art One of these instances being combining the structure of human tailbones, moneky tails, and cat tails to make anatomically "functional" tails.
@Sly-Moose
4 ай бұрын
YES! Exactly! I intentionally pointed this out in my fanfic during a romance scene where the bf kisses the catgirl gf on the spot where the human ear would be! People gotta stop giving catgirls 4 ears! 🤣
@Imaizuko
4 ай бұрын
lets go back to 2008 and... You will never know :)
@Newtothis42
2 ай бұрын
Drop the fic name pls?
@Sly-Moose
2 ай бұрын
@@Newtothis42 Sorry. It's still in RP form and not posted publicly yet atm ^^'
@MrPanGonzo
Ай бұрын
disgusting...
@Sly-Moose
Ай бұрын
@@MrPanGonzo Says the one who prefers 4 eared mutants. XD At least aliens are already earless, so we have that premise to go off of.
@armageddon7432
4 ай бұрын
undertale had cat people with two cat ears and two dog ears
@je_juis
20 күн бұрын
No way your so talented
@2D_Emerald
Ай бұрын
THIS IS REALLY COOL AND I LOVE IT
@inkycat191
Ай бұрын
I’d say 4 ears seems the most normal
@iceburn41
Ай бұрын
I adore this style very much wish more people would do it this way
@everchangingabomination
Ай бұрын
This actually answers a question that's been screaming at me for weeks. Like one of those "how would a dog wear pants" kinda questions
@alanmiraanime
Ай бұрын
I like to take inspiration from my cat and connect the ears to the side of the head!
@setster007
10 күн бұрын
I'm absolutely sending you my OC once my artist friend is done with him.
@colorbar.s
Ай бұрын
THE CORRECT WAY!!!
@StrixOcci
25 күн бұрын
I think that the eye should be more the same size, otherwise it looks a bit weird but other than that, this looks pretty good
@edi9892
22 күн бұрын
There are two other questions though: 1) the base of the tail. I frigging hate the 90° spine bent. 2) the worst I've seen was a creature with six nipples but two big breasts. Also, in terms of world building, keep in mind that the number of nipples also correlates to the litter size! Yes, both questions are implicit.
@18u.
8 күн бұрын
Oh my god your drawing didn’t even feel like a drawing it felt more like i was looking at a selfie
@th4t0neMairy-_-
Ай бұрын
You could draw the fox ears in the position of where their human ears would be
@hyzmarie
3 ай бұрын
Huh. I have two OCs with animal ears, and they both have the sides of their heads covered, but that’s because i just wanted floofy anime hair for them :)
@draconisdemiurge
Ай бұрын
lonely diamond is a hella based fellow for rocking that ami from gwain saga pfp
@zigtailzapper3723
Ай бұрын
There’s a really interesting video by winged canvas where they show how to draw various animal ears so they find a balance between where humans have their ears and where the animals have them
@feathern6106
24 күн бұрын
Hair should also be growing around the area that the ear was so there aren’t just some random bold spots on the sides of their head.
@Netherwolf6100
27 күн бұрын
Just look up short-haired nekos. You get the same result. They're often drawn with longer hair because more often times than not, women look more beautiful with longer hair.
@willowtdog6449
Ай бұрын
I love doing ears like this!
@smullins17
Ай бұрын
doing gods work
@dragonofberk6865
Ай бұрын
I wish more people drew characters with animal ears in the area where human ears would be
@gtt390
4 ай бұрын
So beautiful❤❤❤
@MorpheousXO
Ай бұрын
I did this once as part of a Hair Style art meme and people got really weird about the pic with short hair since the lack of human ears was very obvious. Just made me wanna do it more! XD
@hikaruishida1420
2 ай бұрын
As someone who has a condition that resulted in one of my ears being deformed, I am happy for my cat eared sisters getting some rep!
@solarwind
Ай бұрын
I prefer when they just have the two animal ears. The four ears things kind of creepy. Also, if they're an alien race that's basically cat girls that would be awesome
@crusaderanimation6967
Ай бұрын
I agree, i want from fantasy creature to look, well fantastical, out of this world, of course someting like that to make me uncomfortable, i want not only for it to look uncomfortable but also like it dosn't care it makes me uncfortable.
@UserOfTheName
2 ай бұрын
I've seen characters with the cat ears near where the human ears would be
@boredaf5782
Ай бұрын
Something people seem to forget is that dog, cats, foxes etc don't actually have ears on top of their heads, they have them to the sides but they're so big that they also reach to the top So of anything, animal people should have Something similar
@Blakbox92
Ай бұрын
I've seen animal people with ears big enough to reach down the sides it looks better than mixing ears.
@chrisshorten4406
Ай бұрын
This is beautiful!
@Swagnar666
29 күн бұрын
I always feel like anthrotype characters should have their ears more inbetween the human and animal position. Beast races in fantasy are often humans with an animal head, but what I find more interesting is when those features are blended together, and the proportions are adjusted to fall between both. Like a cat person who's facial proportions resemble humans in terms of muzzle length and all, but retain things like rhinarium, kind of like the Dinosauroid theory, which I remember learning about from a documentary as a kid.
@boi7316
Ай бұрын
Someone: "How is she gonna wear glasses?" Me: Tape
@Stratelier
Ай бұрын
I wonder, how many artistic tropes do we artists employ that are based on some strong reaction (e.g. dislike) of popular depictions of something else?
@theprinterdude9687
2 ай бұрын
Very inspiring
@jennathekitsune6456
Ай бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree m8
@Tigersight0
Ай бұрын
Side-head-cat-ear gang rise up!
@Royal_MellowZ
4 ай бұрын
At least i have a way to draw Animal eared characters now thanks to this!!
@lyra_sen3482
Ай бұрын
I believe that there is the third way of drawing cat girls with the ears coming from the same place of normal ears but going up (not sure how say this in English but like imagining how anatomic visibly they could be)
@SirSoda-tq7en
4 ай бұрын
Dope! 🔥🔥🔥
@iaminds2312
Ай бұрын
CUTE KAWAII
@RedStarWC0
2 ай бұрын
CAT GIRLS 😍😍
@connerkline1534
22 күн бұрын
Would cat girls realistically have a harder time keeping hair out of their face because they can’t just push the hair behind their ears?
@carpty6252
Ай бұрын
Bro is gasping for air
@anthonyina_bottle2443
28 күн бұрын
well a lot of the time in manga, they'll elaborate on why having 2 sets of ears is better. Such as the cat ears hearing at different frequencies than the normal ears, or the cat ears being better at pinpointing the location of things rather than everything at once. Doesnt really matter to me as all catgirls are best girls.
@lordwarryl5712
Ай бұрын
If these characters have 4 ears its easy to incapacitate them with sound based attacks
@Noah60
Ай бұрын
That i do personally is extend the cat ear so it would reach near whwre the ear should be. I dont just plop cat ears on the top of the head and call it a day
@e8ios
Ай бұрын
FFXIV has a few hairstyles for their Miqo'te that show the side of their heads with no hears.
@SlimJibby
Ай бұрын
Dawg, this has gotta be the first time ive thought about ears and how whenever a friend sends a picture of their face they dont have ears, like what?
@bluesnake4626
26 күн бұрын
I can’t agree more
@Someone_ExistsVtuber
26 күн бұрын
I just make it so there are 4 ears and its either explained by "they can hear better" or the cat ears are just for looks.
@FirstLast-wk3kc
Ай бұрын
It's better if it's just longer higher situated cat ears instead of human. So not on the top of the head, but in the middle of side/top.
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