I could really really use this. Many times i have attempted to make realistic bulges in vore since they seem more nice looking than the random bumps and curves.
Its alot of hard work and detail to do though. But I think this may help me next time I try it!

I wish more people made vore at least semi-realistic. that's why I like snakes, semicircle ribcages make for awesome bulges.

since the hippocampus picture you drew long ago, i've been doing this. its an awesome technique!

The way I thought about the ribs situation is that when the chest cavity expands, the cartilage that connects the ribs to the sternum is extra flexible than it would normally be. The sternum is fine as a bone, as it mostly just serves as an anchor for the 2 sets of ribs to join in the middle. Ribs do naturally move a bit for breathing afterall.

I can't draw but love the internal views in your tutorial.

Realism for the win! Awesome. :)

dang you really get into it dont you? no pun intended.
I love to see this, an artist actually taking skeletal and anatomical consideration. It really makes it all the more enjoyable

Thank you so much for posting this! It will be incredibly helpful for an upcoming commission <3

I dont see the room left for the majority of what the abdomen contains, the actual guts.

Yeah, i mentioned that in the text.

...in a scenario where the pred/prey sizes are this close, as an artist sometimes you have to make executive decisions like that ("Remove her guts! That's an order!") or it's just not possible to show at all.

Yea its understandable. Its all about the focus of the image, the belly, and not the reality, but I was just mentioning it as something I noticed. Still great stuff!

Random... but that goat is really cute :D

Hehe, thanks!  snowhawk made it for me! I'm no GoatDragon with the Goat :3

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Really enjoyed looking at the mechanics of this. It's great to see the process of construction in your work and this highlights just how thoughtful you are when it comes to illustrating something that is particularly awkward to draw.

That's highly fascinating and well done. Thanks for sharing.

And still no hole in the belly from the horn...

Unicorn horns aren't as sharp as your fang i'm afraid :|
Dragons have pretty tough guts, too.

To be entierly fair, that's one of the less unrealistic things here. XD Snakes swallow things with antlers and horns all the time, they just have to be careful about it (some do die from punctured abdomens)

Dat heart monitoring line

Wonderful tutorial ^_^

Saved! <3

Yaaaaaaay! Awesome work. Thanks for drawing this up, hon. :K)

Its more or less how I do it, though when I'm drawing myself I tend to snug up the bulges a bit, since my character is more or less a flesh golem, with no actual internal organs, rubbery bones, exceptionally elastic skin and muscles, able to rearrange his physiology on the fly, etc.

Or on other words, "It doesn't have to make biological sense, he's made of magic!"

(also I am a lazy cheater who doesn't use wireframes/skeletons or circles or anything actual professionals use)

You don't have to use circles or skeletons to be a professional (; I'm not professional, but I don't use any form of graphing before I begin an image. Cheating is totally okay in a fictional world!

Yes indeed, unless I am feeling very lazy indeed I sketch out the prey. Then it's a question of deciding how thick the overlying flesh is, whether to have a "latex" look or whatever.

FA is super slow for me too today, for whatever reason.

i guess 90% of all voreart on FA has the problem, that they forget, that there are also bones in the body XD. good that someone said it :)
i have my problems drawing stuff when people want gettn something swallen that never ever fits into the mouth because there are bones too... the jaw is not made of rubber that can strech and such stuff hehehe :D

I think this tutorial was:

1. Really neat.
2. Very helpful.
3. Definitely useful.

Of course, it depends on the style that you want to draw in.

This is an outstanding tutorial for drawing realistic predators after downing large prey. Some people -and I'm included in that! - like a more 'toony' style to their vore, and some draw it somewhere in between (the 'face visible against the hide' is a very popular intermediate style). It's really a whole spectrum.

You have to decide what style you are going for first, and that determines where you go from here. You're actually fairly good at an intermediate style, not just super-realistic; both of the pics you did for me in that style turned out awesome. But it's far less common in vore fandom to draw realistic-style, so it's definitely worth pursuing.

100% medically accurate? :)

And the irony is that your (relatively) understated bulges don't evidence all the work you've put into it. Most of the bulges I see include extreme levels of detail (entire faces, usually), that make it quite easy to see the prey's position. My mind immediately tries to determine how that position came about, or can be, and is usually jarred by the results... which somehow causes me to be significantly less aroused by the picture than I otherwise would be. I'm guessing most viewers (and probably most artists, too) must not have that sort of mind. :(
This is the result of most of the pet peeves I have regarding vore:
*Impossible positions
*Positions changing between frames. Most common: Arms at sides (not in front) in one frame, lower torso and below sticking out in the next (but no pinned hands visible at sides).
*Entire length of tail sticking out of the mouth. Unfortunately it looks like you succumbed to this one, though you did at least consider the length of the throat. There's only one way I can picture this situation arising, and I don't think the pike position is the most efficient way to be swallowed. Not headfirst, anyway.

In case this wasn't clear amidst all the bitching: I approve.

It is unusual that she swallowed the prey with the rear legs pressed against the body and not stretched out (in which case the hooves would be the last part to go down) ...but it's not impossible. I mean, not any more than the rest of the scenario :P

Wow you make vore look somewhat believable and a little more...tasteful? Nice work.

Ooh, a tutorial...I'd say that's a bonus! This is very informative; I quite enjoy seeing the more "realistic" side of vore. This is actually inspiring to make an "inside" piece. Thank you for making this, EC! :3

This is great! There are so many things to think about when trying to concoct a plausible scenario. Also, it can be easy to forget the prey has a skeleton too- there are so many times where I had to alter the one of the participant's positions when I realized oh it would be painful/impossible for the prey to slide down that way if the pred was curved just so!

I love these 'the realism behind the fantasy' tutorials that some artists have done. Strega's breakdown on jaw anatomy is also a favorite of mine. Yours looks amazing too. I like the bits about the rib cage and internal organs. It sounds like you know how to take yourself seriously but not too seriously, which is the way to go in my opinion.

Very helpfull!

mmm, salty.

But i like my shrinkwrap vore :<

heh . Great little tutorial!

I really love how you do bulges but also depict that cramped inside.

These are good pointers for someone like me who doesn't really draw vore often enough to think that deeply into it!

Love this. I always sketch multiple chars fully to some extent, even if it's just delicate outlines only I can understand in the rough stages. Since you do such careful and extensive shading and texture work, I'm sure any different approach would be unbelievable in the end. Great job on the tutorial~

Kinda makes me wish there were more opportunities to draw fully visible rib cages in stretched positions >>; So beautiful in its own way.

Make a character with transparent skin and organs, or do some X-Ray themed pics.

Very neat!

awesome, thanks

I'm not a fan of vore, but this is MOST interesting! I certainly wish people were drawing this kind of stuff more accurately like how you show. I can at least appreciate that!

Very informative! :) mine end up looking rather unrealistic for sure

Oh wow, I was hoping for something like this for a while. Fantastic work./

I was going to ask, as an artistic, how do you approach prey being in the stomach, in regards to air and acid? Do you just ignore it (as many people do), just handwave it or do you have some sort of idea for it? I always was under the impression that in such situations acid would burn the prey badly but it'd be the lack of air that did them in.

Is it strange that the number one thing I notice here is that you have a presumably egg-laying creature - the dragon - that has a navel? I fail to see how an egg can contain an umbilical cord.

wow this is incredibly helpful,

it would be amazing to have a set of images/ tutorials to help learn realistic vore.

This is very neat I really like it :P

I fully endorse this message since it describes far more succinctly what I've been trying to explain to people than I myself have managed. Yet again, you prove your awesomeness.

Muchas gracias por el tutorial!
I appreciate your time for explain us how it works!

ty ty ty! This was very helpful, as I am horrible at drawing vore but I love it so. ^^

hm now i want a picture of my dinosaur like that :O

Yes yes yes, 100 times YES! XD
Faved and saved. This is soooo helpful. I'm glad you thought to draw it. ^^

This was really helpful! I’m thinking of trying to draw vore later on, and I’ll try to use stuff like this tutorial

Going to fav it for later use.

This is why i'm just okay with this kind of bulges, but prefer to see sizedifferences to make it a more realistic fit.
This one will help to show others what i mean when they argue against what fits in my characters and what dosen't xD