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Crap snippet from the upcoming RL page. I posted it sheerly because her expression makes my soul giggle.
Crap snippet from the upcoming RL page. I posted it sheerly because her expression makes my soul giggle.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 312 x 493px
File Size 193 kB
I'm feline :o
Possibly hot...i guess..?
And ornery? can be xD
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5710062/
Possibly hot...i guess..?
And ornery? can be xD
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5710062/
I just wanted to make a note to you... Unlike canines, feline heads don't do well perched atop an otherwise human body (fur, tail, whatever, it's a human body). Not saying there's anything wrong with your art, per se, but you might want to consider modifying the head, neck, posture, or all three to make feline heads appear a little less awkward on their anthro frames.
PS This isn't something I just noticed with this one piccy, btw, so don't think I'm singling you out. It's a gripe I've had with every artist who uses the model of animal heads on human shoulders. The shape just doesn't agree. Felines are probably the hardest mammal to make appear natural, from what I've seen.
I think the problem is their jaws. I can't draw to save my life, so I can't field test my theories, but I usually have a good eye for this stuff. Humans and canines actually have similar jaw-lines, so even if a canine head looks awkward, it doesn't look bad placed on a human neck & shoulders because a human neck basically attaches at the jaw. Felines, on the other hand, have essentially no jawline, which means that it looks like there can't possibly be a proper connecting point for the head.
Their heads are also very flat (vertically), so it might help to shortern the neck slightly. Honestly, though, I think the best approach is to hybridize characters a little more. Remember that they are designed so that you would normally be able to draw a horizontal line alone the spine, through the neck and come right between their forward-facing eyes. Because their head has this unusually low-profile, I think a good approach would be to set the character's posture so that the neck can attach somewhere between human and feline positions.
This picture provides a good indicator of what a lioness might look like if you went very animalistic in the design. I think you could get away with bring the neck-line down a little, but try to avoid the concave curve the is signature of the human neck. http://www.birdsasart.com/rootjpegs.....ness%20cug.jpg
Conversely, you could alter the jaw to fit a more human standard, but then you'd be making the character even less feline, which would be a little sad.
Their heads are also very flat (vertically), so it might help to shortern the neck slightly. Honestly, though, I think the best approach is to hybridize characters a little more. Remember that they are designed so that you would normally be able to draw a horizontal line alone the spine, through the neck and come right between their forward-facing eyes. Because their head has this unusually low-profile, I think a good approach would be to set the character's posture so that the neck can attach somewhere between human and feline positions.
This picture provides a good indicator of what a lioness might look like if you went very animalistic in the design. I think you could get away with bring the neck-line down a little, but try to avoid the concave curve the is signature of the human neck. http://www.birdsasart.com/rootjpegs.....ness%20cug.jpg
Conversely, you could alter the jaw to fit a more human standard, but then you'd be making the character even less feline, which would be a little sad.
Cool...and yeah, I know it's not easy. Hopefully, you can figure something out, though, because you'd probably be the first artist on FA to draw a decent feline without going too far human or keeping it too animalistic. (shows what a challenge it really is!) Either way, good luck!
You know what I usually say to people who tell me it's 'not biologically accurate'? 'It's my fantasy.' I mean, furries are, by nature, not biologically accurate. They're fantasy creatures. My idea of what they should look like varies a great deal from many others. There is no 100% accurate way to express what your idea of a furry should look like. It's fantasy. Everyone's entitled to their own piece of it.
...and if they continue to complain, I just stop listening and enjoy my fantasy. ;)
...and if they continue to complain, I just stop listening and enjoy my fantasy. ;)
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