How about everyone giving striped skunk characters white muzzles and undersides, when the only white skunks have is their stripes?

Most of us skunks are guilty of that for sure.

Preach, sister, preach! (I also apologize for ever doing this)

but think how hard it is to keep all that white fur clean!

think of Italian tomato pasta sauces!

I kept my fur clean once. Those were dark, dark days.

I'm curious, are you saying that red panda characters should just stick to the normal black/orangey-red/white color pattern?

This isn't coming from a place of authority so much as noticing a large swath of artists either copping out for the sake of their linework, not researching the actual animal, nor challenging themselves to work with black/colorless fur. Very rarely does this arise from the owner of the character's choices.

chill

no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Eq8TUki44&feature=youtu.be&t=2m34s

omfg XD

But what about my unique neon pink fur pattern! I'm a special snow flake! NOTICE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People are just translating the back to the everything.

They see the dark fur and think "That must just be a shadow" mentally.

Folks very frequently go by (faulty) memory rather than reference. This is why ... well.... almost everything.

There are tons of Furry-isms in art, from coloration to anatomy. You could be making these for a while.

You have some good points -- and finally, a job I can depend on!

i think it was meant as a "please no" rather then encouragement.

most animals also aren't anthro... so, please.

just, lets use the common rule of "furrys be furry" and move along with our lives?

What?

TLDR:

everyone's different, furry's aren't "real" animals, and everyone's drawing talent is different.

embrace and accept.

Embrace, accept, repress, control, contain, bottle up... No thank you, I would rather express myself and my thoughts.

It's more of a "This is a long, uphill battle that may never end"

You are a braver person than I to fight it.

Next we can touch on Tail Placement.

i have two of them, and your welcome to touch if you ask first :P

*Pats in the direction of the tails without touching them, because didn't ask first, so... umm... psychic patting*

Two is fine. Do they come out of the connection between your spine and your pelvis though? Or the middle of your lower back? O.O

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yes


XD

IDK, im not an artist, the artist draws then were they draw them XP

XD

The idea being that the artist should put the tail in the proper place. :)
You want HAPPY tails, not broken tails. ^.^

The more the artist knows about things, the better their art can be.

well i think my tails are already broken though, ya know, one spine two tails?

By that logic, you shouldn't complain if the artist starts your tails coming out of the side your neck, because they're "already broken" anyway. ;)
Yours is a cross between full anatomical physiological accuracy and fiction. One to Two does not in any way move the base of the tail(s). And the misplaced base happens with one, too.

Also, I'm not advocating for 100% accuracy. On plantigrades especially, that would just be weird. See http://forums.furaffinity.net/threa...../#post-1802218 for a good example. The downside is the number of artists who do the very-wrong third one. o.o

aaaaand ya lost me?

My observation was that tails should go in a proper place and a lot of people put them in very-broken places.
Your reply was that you have two tails, so that counts as broken.
I pointed out that there's a difference between artistic license and artistic error, and that if broken positioning is defended with two tails being broken as well, then you may as well defend any level of broken with any intentional style decision.

So, just pointing out that "what about...?" is not a defense for a problem, and that there are differences in inaccuracies, where some inaccuracies are fine (these are anthro animals after all) whereas others are just broken despite the artist and character creator not intending it to be broken.

Overall, this whole process is just trying to help artists improve.

"But it's my style" is the enemy of the good.

I want to frame or bronze this comment somehow.

This reminds me of the "Tumblr Nose" Problem. So many artists on tumblr draw people with red noses for some reason, SO MANY OF THEM, it's like they never looked into a mirror

"Red shape in the middle of a face is a nose" is also a spur in my side >.>;

only if your a reindeer at Christmas

Yup. Add it to the list of problems. :P Lack of fur/fur textures have become an epidemic. Everything looks like it's just covered in coloured skin these days. And the stickers people put over fur and call them tattoos. Like, perfect patterns sitting atop (some of 'em are baaaaaad, like literal copy-paste and no blending) coloured ski... damn, I mean fur.

This is why Damian's birthmarks on his arms are furry, irregular shapes <3

i think that shine looks amazing, miles-DF and others like him.

that soft sheen is amazing, looks great when wet under a water effect

Ugh. His work has gone sooooooooooooooooo down hill. Copy/paste and recolours these days is basically all he does. :( He's settled in to a huge rut like a number of formerly fantastic artists are. Nothing new, unique, or challenging to the artist.

Don't want to badmouth anyways else though so I'll shut up. :)

if it aint broke, and people will pay 500+ for it *coughs* done that *coughs*, why fix it?

Self-respect?

whats that, can i eat it?

Fur is f'ing hard, yo. Though there's at least one artist I know of who openly declares "I treat my characters as having skin so I can give them facial hair." At least integrate the facial hair into the design and don't give them weirdo stubble!

But +1 on those tattoo fails. It's not a dye that goes into the skin and sprouts into the fur like some plant drinking up easter egg water. If it did, the furry tattoo would fade in weeks after shedding. But zero thought goes into it.

the violets in black fur are often quite beautiful. i think they are missing out with that recolor.

Now don't even get me started on putting pawpads on red pandas....

You forgot to add the oversized genitalia... ;)

He'd be about the only one who forgot them. :|

In general, as opposed to eingerized? O.o

I don't recall the specifics, but when I looked though furry art and did relative measurements based on static body sizes, the average size of "small" was like 9 inches and "normal" was about 13. That was conservative too.

Nah, I was talking about the need for furry art to have a Horse Cock on everything, or breasts that indicate some sort of evolution on a low gravity planet or an atmosphere composed of helium.

If you know what I mean... ;)

Digitigrade raccoons

Because some furs dont understand how lighting works

Many artists in general don't. But lighting and how the human eye perceives it is a challenge no matter what.

If people did the same thing, there would be arguments about who owns the original colours and all that. We all need some sort of distinction to tell that we're not copying someone else.

Blame the coloring on popular culture. Most furries draw whas as mainly being red in color because Shifu from Kung Fu Panda was colored like that. Its like how people think skunks have a white underside And white face because that is how Pepé LePew looks.

But the furry version is so much ciuddlier

This is quite acceptable i think. Some use white instead of black.
Atleast the colour palette is "natural". *looks at the sparkly fursuits* yap... *rubs his sore eyes* x.x