I dunno, the anteater isn't tooo bad. You got the /shape/ of the muzzle right, just not the length :p

There's a lot of things really, but I have absolutely no framework for dealing with that sort of thing at the moment. x3

My dilemma with faces in general is that I don't want to draw them realistically. Honestly it would be pretty easy to just learn to draw things accurately... but a lot of what I draw is adult in nature, which means I want things to be as attractive as possible. Using a different species as an example, this just ain't sexy.

So the trick for me is to find a way of humanizing species without losing too much of what makes them look like they do, and sometimes that just doesn't work out very well. x3

If you don't mind me jumping in here, I kinda got curious myself and started looking into this a bit. Your style seems to be sort of chibifying them, where the eyes get bigger, the muzzles tend to get a bit stubbier, the heads get rounder, and it works with things like cats and dogs. But when I browsed around for other anteater pics it seems like what's cute about them is the way their facial features are sort of delicate and graceful with little mouths and eyes.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3793540/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1671752/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5230849/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/914998/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7821424/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5833736/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1691443/

Just a few I thought were decent. There are a ton of results for anteater on FA and I only went through a few pages of them. :P

I may have to tackle this idea again in the future... I'm intrigued now. Thanks for the links!

:3

Hahah! No worries, I didn't think you'd even pick my critter. But thanks so much! I'm still learning them too. Looking at lots of different species pictures and trying to get it right. ; 3; We are both learning. They're a fun challenge though.

That's one I'd probably have to work at for a few hours before I could really get something decent out of. Trying to get the right balance of features to make them look like an anteater without looking creepy isn't easy, hah.

I'm still working on that too. I can pretty much only make profile views look good. Getting a straight on or 3/4 view? It's gonna be hard! Haha!

you did great with all the expressions^^

I'd say the anteater looks alright. But I guess they are a species one doesn't get to draw all that often ^^

Still, I'd say you did great job on the headshots! Boom! The expressions are really good looking, in my opinion. But I'm just an amateur doodler so my opinion might not be of much value :3

Yours is actually another I'm not terribly happy with. I made the mistake of learning to draw all canines in one sort of all-encompassing generic canine shape, and it can be kind of hard to unlearn that to draw a different looking canid. That, and it just looks silly in general. x3 Just didn't work too well, heh.

Silly looking? But that is part of my character! I love my "enjoying the gentle morning breeze" expression! :P
And if I had to point out some actual criticism, the only thing I can think of is that the rhinarium, or nose, is a bit biggish. But that might be that generic canine influence you spoke of. I'd still say you can rightfully feel proud over it as it looks like my head in my opinion! :)

Veruca has a good one. Nice kitty nose! Axcle and Terutt came out really cu- er cool too! Terutt is especially different from your usual work, so it's really refreshing. :)

I almost skipped that one, because monkeys/apes and such kind of fall into the uncanny valley for me. But the small part of me that's trying to be an artist got really loud and complainy and wouldn't shush until I just sucked it up and tried it, so that's what I did.

I hear you! Primates are weird territory, even in furryland.

Hey! :P

Present company excluded, of course ;)

And thanks for that ^___^

Most of them are really good ru! :3

Awesome expression!

Awww, those are just CUTE! <3

came out great

:o you did draw a roo-folf :D

The expressions are just fine, love junipers, Teruts and Seraphims

Oh wow, that's pretty adorable, and you actually drew it close to life, thank you so much

Shame more people don't draw fennecs like that~

I vote for more squirrels!

Hehe a bunch of happy faces xD

oooh~ love it!
I like my expression xD
Thank you so much for this!