Diogenes opened this issue on Jan 06, 2010 · 722 posts
lkendall posted Tue, 02 February 2010 at 9:40 AM
phantom3D:
If I may comment on Brad's feet? The feet look good, and there are certainly some people who would have feet that look like the most recent foot examples. To achieve a more average or neutral appearance, I think you could make some minor changes.
From the pictures on page 9 of this thread, it looks as if the heel should be more rounded and less prominent. The pictures of your foot shape show the calcaneus (heel bone) correctly aimed downward. So, that does not need to be fixed.
Because the foot normally bears weight, the bottom of the foot, the planter surface, tends to be a little flattened in adults (and often callused), even when the foot is not on the ground. The bottom “edge” of the foot’s sides should be less rounded, and that looks right on the foot pictures you have shown.
If you look at the palm of your hand, there is a ridge across the palm just before the first finger joints. The foot has a similar feature that includes the great toe, and this is thicker and wider than the hand. This looks almost right in the picture showing the toes bent up (extended). In the other examples that area doesn’t look thick (top to bottom) or wide (front to back) enough.
The front part of the foot, the metatarsus region (before the toes), does not look thick enough from the top (anterior) surface to the bottom (planter) surface. This makes the foot look a little flattened. The anterior surface may need to be a little more rounded.
LMK
Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.