I am quite happy to hear that. So much furry art is thinly furred
humans. Very rarely does an artist try to figure out how an anthro
should look. I always wanted to try by blending skeletal structures
between animal and human to see how they would map. From there it is not
so hard to see what the rest of the body would be. But when you think of
how many artists dont seem to know that the tail is part of the spine,
its obvious why they dont do more than fuzzy humans.
Of course I like those too, when they are well done.
But now we will have a chance to see how a great detail artist will
genesplice a 'real' anthro ;)
Take a wild, friggin guess wrote:
>
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:SkunkworksAMA%40yahoogroups.com>, "inkwell_01" <inkwell_01_at_...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Jim, is Natasha around 5 heads tall with,
> > Torso around 1 1/2 heads?
> >
> > After reviewing a few portfolios it seems you
> > start the drawings with a loose guideline for
> > proper proportion sizes for the girls.
> >
> > Main character distinguishing features are more
> > focused on face-body fur coloring, not body
> > structure differences, (ie, bust size, ear size,
> > tail size, etc.).
> >
>
> Honestly, I can't recall. I've changed the styles on them several
> times over the years; sometimes, they were drawn with cartoon-ish
> proportions, other times with more "comic book" proportions. Looking
> at a rough sketch of the girls in the new style, I would say Natasha
> is about 7 heads high. I don't have the means to scan anything in
> now, since that system is being refilled with software (and it's not
> networked yet), but once I get it back online, I'll throw up a few
> images. The proportions and features have changed a bit from the
> older styles, and they look much more realistic, perhaps what they
> might look like if they were standing right next to you. I just hope
> folks won't flip out and say they "hate the new style" because they're
> used to the older, toony work. I guess time will tell, though. I'll
> probably upload a picture of Koth first, since that's the one closest
> to completion at this point.
>
> As far as character distinguishing features, the different breeds
> are drawn on different frameworks now, since the bone/muscle/general
> form of, say, a skunk, would be quite different from that of, say, a
> bear. The new style reflects the individual animal-based forms much
> better than he older style.
>
> --JMH
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 22 2008 - 22:43:06 CDT