I'm making a xenobiology project, and when things got to anatomy of my creatures I've began to struggle a bit with how to adapt human anatomy for some non-human traits. Then I had a thought "wait, aren't furry community is basically built around creating non-humanoid anthropomorphic characters?" and decided to go dig around a bit, particularly the 18+ images. I lowkey understand that porn is maybe not the best thing to study anatomy, but it's the only genre I can think of where the characters will definitely be naked and drawn from all sorts of unusual angles and postures.

but what I saw was honestly a bit disappointing. One of the main topics I was interested is how the pelvic area gets changed when there's a thick tail being present, so I went to shuffle through some reptile pics, but majority of pictures is either take perfectly normal female anatomy and then just stick the tail between the ass cheeks, with it often looking like it has no width to it at all (like here example: https://e621.net/posts/2036189 ) or place it too high on the back, or go to the other extreme and ditch the anthro aspect making the characters too animalistic in posture and proportions. What's left is the pictures drawn from such an angle where you can't see much.

Ok, so since jusr rummaging through the sire failed, I need help. Can you share artists that have good and detailed anatomy of that kind of things, or maybe even specialize on specifically non-porn anatomy studies? any help would be appreciated.

darth_e621 said
One of the main topics I was interested is how the pelvic area gets changed when there's a thick tail being present, so I went to shuffle through some reptile pics, but majority of pictures is either take perfectly normal female anatomy and then just stick the tail between the ass cheeks, with it often looking like it has no width to it at all (like here example: https://e621.net/posts/2036189 ) or place it too high on the back, or go to the other extreme and ditch the anthro aspect making the characters too animalistic in posture and proportions. What's left is the pictures drawn from such an angle where you can't see much.

Ok, so since jusr rummaging through the sire failed, I need help. Can you share artists that have good and detailed anatomy of that kind of things, or maybe even specialize on specifically non-porn anatomy studies? any help would be appreciated.

I've noticed that Asian artists are more likely to have a firm grasp on anatomy. I don't mean this to offend anyone, they just usually study both human and animal anatomy more than western artists.

That said, are these images a little closer to what you were looking for?
post #347298
post #2520149

^ I agree. Here are a few artists I like who draw reptile tails with a little more attachment to the torso than a butt add-on (coincidentally, mostly Japanese)

• kame_3 eg post #750812, post #365902, post #2334735
• kameloh eg post #1878292, post #1815296, post #2214445
• ajin eg post #1922104, post #178300
• wkar eg post #440626, post #26084
• costom10 eg post #1735571, post #916374, post #568034

Also maybe check out b-epon, scappo. And Salazzle from Pokemon Sun/Moon is a well-done scalie character with a 3D model you can actually download and play around with.

darth_e621 said:
What's left is the pictures drawn from such an angle where you can't see much.

Unfortunately what happens with a lot of furry art is the porn-relevant bits get moved around a bit to either make them visible when they shouldn't be, or to make posing work. Even many artists who will draw "accurate" anatomy construction in some circumstances will draw completely differently at another angle.
I'll poke around my personal archives for posts that might be relevant.

Incomplete:

• 60percentscalie might have a couple: post #1529830 post #1624437
• ancesra has post #2228880
• backsash is a bit of a dig-through but there might be a few that count? post #1974174 post #1941683 post #2069467 post #1979059 post #2104617 post #2237789
• b-epon was mentioned: post #1777345 post #2354699 post #2098866
• braeburned has a couple post #2374284 post #1835541 (on_back seems to enforce it in a bunch of these)
• buyobutt: post #2117795 post #1622537 post #951247
• ctrl_alt_yiff: post #876097
• dacad: post #2199448
• daftpatriot: post #2309850 post #1766540
• dzat: post #2074739 post #2111491 post #2153350 post #2255700 post #2475280

Thanks for the examples, y'all! Well, from looking over the examples posted, I think that my own version is turned out to be quite close to the most common depiction.

https://i.gyazo.com/fcf8c98e8be857472d4ff27dc93aff1b.png
https://i.gyazo.com/1618446ff0e21acebabf967cb1909b33.png
https://i.gyazo.com/4630eb86f5b1069f746c77648cf68b85.png

Although I still have no idea if this is the anatomically correct or "everybody doing that" kind of deal, on most pictures it is rather hard to define any muscles beside the butt. ^^"

Do you think it looks anatomically correct?

An artist's grasp of anatomy could be flawed even before you consider that anthros, dragons, taurs, etc. are loosely related to any actual living creature. And there can be honest mistakes and deliberate exaggerations.

This will become more important as we start to venture into genetic engineering, or if humanity discovers and captures images of alien lifeforms.