Welcome to part one of the 2014 Halloween special, tails! These fabulous appendages come in all shapes and sizes, but are all constructed in a similar way. Don’t believe me? Look below.
To start a tail, a line is drawn from root to tip (however long you want). The location of the root is very important. The tail will be an elongated tail bone and thus comes out of the base of the spine, not the middle of the bottom as I have seen people do before. There can be a slightly higher or lower set, but remember it still should still look as if it could realistically be an elongated tail bone (as that is what all tails are after all).
The only difference is how you flesh it out. For a cat, you flesh it out relatively slim with a squared off end, for a fox or fluffy dog lots of fluff, a devil add a triangle to the end. You can have them short (like the rabbit/hare/deer tail shown here) or long, thick or thin depending on the species. Most of the difference in thickness will be fluff…
Another suggestion, look at the tails above and see if you can make a dragon (thick at base, tapers to tip, scaly) and a horse (just a bit longer than the deer/rabbit but as thin as a cat with long silky hair). The horse should be the most difficult. The ‘dock’ (and thus the movable part) only reaches the ‘bottom of the bottom’ but the hair can be ground length, making it look as though it has very narrow range of motion compared to a fox for example, when it is actually just short.
Get creative and start working on your spooky characters! My deviant art account is http://vulcanvet.deviantart.com/ - don’t be shy, drop a comment and show me your work! I would love to see what tail variations people can think of.
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