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Species Badger
Size 1280 x 640
File Size 1.07 MB
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Head/skull ref https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20172498/
Rubber! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29308753/
Newer ref here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24851643
Text and more ref
Pel's 4' tall with standard anthro body size, but is structurally about as close to a feral badger as you can get, while still having someone who habitually walks on two legs and is able to fill in a tax form.
About half the artists I've commissioned have drawn Pel with a canine style skull instead of a mustelid style skull and/or anthro body, and I've felt stupid having to point it out to them, and guilty about making them do the work I've paid them for.
I'm comfortable with a variant where his brownish back/tail fur is wholly black. This particularly if he's rubberised and glossy.
Hopefully this reference sheet and these pictures make it clear how important that skull/feral detail is: if it's 'not your style' then let me know so I can cancel.
He uses glowy magic, and knows kung-fu. He customarily only wears a waistcoat for the pockets and the style.
He presents as a Disney male because although he's an XY male able to sire cubs, he has the intersex condition 5-ARD meaning that he looks t-male down below. His fur is usually enough for modesty, and only his hyæna girlfriend, close family, and doctor know about it. (It's one of the main reasons he got into magic, before deciding he didn't need to 'fix' himself.)
Rubber! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29308753/
Newer ref here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24851643
Text and more ref
Pel's 4' tall with standard anthro body size, but is structurally about as close to a feral badger as you can get, while still having someone who habitually walks on two legs and is able to fill in a tax form.
About half the artists I've commissioned have drawn Pel with a canine style skull instead of a mustelid style skull and/or anthro body, and I've felt stupid having to point it out to them, and guilty about making them do the work I've paid them for.
I'm comfortable with a variant where his brownish back/tail fur is wholly black. This particularly if he's rubberised and glossy.
Hopefully this reference sheet and these pictures make it clear how important that skull/feral detail is: if it's 'not your style' then let me know so I can cancel.
He uses glowy magic, and knows kung-fu. He customarily only wears a waistcoat for the pockets and the style.
He presents as a Disney male because although he's an XY male able to sire cubs, he has the intersex condition 5-ARD meaning that he looks t-male down below. His fur is usually enough for modesty, and only his hyæna girlfriend, close family, and doctor know about it. (It's one of the main reasons he got into magic, before deciding he didn't need to 'fix' himself.)
Category Artwork (Digital) / Doodle
Species Badger
Size 1280 x 640px
File Size 1.07 MB
i understand completely about the anatomy thing. i had gotten a commission of my wolverine fursona and even after correcting the artist multiple times i ended up getting a k9 with short ears instead lol. i still love and appreciate the piece of course but i was a bit disappointed haha
it's one of the reasons I rarely place 'artistic license' commissions unless I've seen the artist can draw more than generic dog/cat, and I have an opportunity to emphasise that it's a mostly feral character.
Nowadays I'm entirely happy to cancel a piece and request a refund on the rare occasions an artist stubbornly continues to get it wrong despite the ref sheets, my pointing it out in text, and finally when I red-line their WIP. The PayPal refund process good for that - and for ensuring artists don't stretch commissions out for months.
Sure, there are stylistic affectations - I use a shiny pentangle nose on most carnivores - but if someone says they want a realistic nose (important in distinguishing otter species) then I'll happily draw one!
It's one of the reasons I'm trying to get better at drawing: so I can do it to my satisfaction.
Nowadays I'm entirely happy to cancel a piece and request a refund on the rare occasions an artist stubbornly continues to get it wrong despite the ref sheets, my pointing it out in text, and finally when I red-line their WIP. The PayPal refund process good for that - and for ensuring artists don't stretch commissions out for months.
Sure, there are stylistic affectations - I use a shiny pentangle nose on most carnivores - but if someone says they want a realistic nose (important in distinguishing otter species) then I'll happily draw one!
It's one of the reasons I'm trying to get better at drawing: so I can do it to my satisfaction.
The only strategy I could think of was to make a list of things artists kept getting wrong, and add them explicitly to his ref sheet: that way I can point at it and say 'You missed these points - please fix them'.
Numbering each point tends to help folks notice each one, and make it starker that it's on them.
Perhaps it's a bit harsh, but I don't see why I should accept something I'm paying a substantial amount for. (If its a freebie or a cheapie, I'm more relaxed, of course: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/21439115/ is amazing, and it's only his legs that are too long, but they're obscured.)
Numbering each point tends to help folks notice each one, and make it starker that it's on them.
Perhaps it's a bit harsh, but I don't see why I should accept something I'm paying a substantial amount for. (If its a freebie or a cheapie, I'm more relaxed, of course: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/21439115/ is amazing, and it's only his legs that are too long, but they're obscured.)
I can see where the too-long legs are coming in, but otherwise the overall anatomy of it is great (something I really struggle with for anthro characters)
My ref isn't numbered, and it's honestly a mess, but....
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17088943/
People get a LOT of things wrong.
My ref isn't numbered, and it's honestly a mess, but....
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17088943/
People get a LOT of things wrong.
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