Hiding Geometric Disasters

I didn't live-stream drawing the British car, mostly because I had no idea if it would come out okay and if I'd rage quit in the attempt lol. When I go in without a clear mental image of a pose that's a risk of happening, and I don't want you guys to see that. XD So as a consolation I screen shot a situation that happens sometimes that you guys might find interesting.

Needless to say when you take a solid creature like a car and try to make it able to twist, turn, and articulate. You run into certain positions that well, while not necessarily impossible given a stretchy enough body material, does look very strange and even a little off putting to an audience that lives with cars and knows what they should look like.

The two main areas this happens is around the front wheel well and particularly the cab/roof area. For the latter that's why I prefer to use convertibles whenever I can as they're the most twist-able and when anthro have the thinnest most human looking shape. Some cars particularly SUVs and hatchbacks look very fat and thicc in weird areas with the cab being such a big part of their body and them not having a trunk/butt.

Today's issue is the head though, a look over the shoulder for a car can easily look very strange. As you can see above one side of her left side wheel well comes from her right cheek and stretches all the way over and under to just above her boob. Again, in universe that might not be a problem, they have some pretty amazing stretchy bouncy materials to work with. But sometimes I still have to protect our universes audience from their own pre-conceptions and mitigate the character looking contorted and off-putting. 

So in the next picture you'll see how a cleverly placed arm or leg, or even just opting for a pose that hides that area can save the day. I remember I used to be strict that the shoulders always had to be INSIDE the wheel well with a little wiggle room forward and back, up and down for shrugging and shoulder movement. Sometime in the last couple years I decided to loosen up on the arm ability and give the shoulders the ability to pop out of the wheel a little, this really helped with me continuing to do more and more complicated poses. Not only to help hide geometric disasters but also to give more rich poses like a shy girl being bashful and hiding her face behind her arm for example.

Anyway I just thought you guys would find that interesting. With stuff like that I'm not surprised so little people draw anthro-cars other than me, they're definitely not easy to draw, as much as I'd like my anthro-car designs to be open to public for people to have fun with.. like certain 'rat' and 'bat' characters.