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12 years ago General

Yo why you gotta make yo heads so dang big all the time

69 Comments

missmab ~missmab

the Ambaaargh

12 years ago

Ah needs a place to hold all my ego! >:U

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

I would keep mine in a drifloon!

LonelyLupine ~lonewolf

Anthro Artist

12 years ago

You try putting snouts and big ears and big horns on a human-sized head and let's see how tiny your heads look.

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

:P Note that I'm also a furry artist. There's a difference between heads LOOKING big due to snouts and heads BEING too big. Artists in this fandom have a major problem with the latter.

LonelyLupine ~lonewolf

Anthro Artist

12 years ago

Well, I would look at influences. Many artists are influenced by anime or various other sources that emphasize over-sized heads. I used to be influenced a bit my Sonic the Hedgehog, and those heads are wider than the bodies. Dook me ears to work my heads down to a "proper" size.

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

ohgosh Sonic. Yeah that'd do it.

The question is which series.

LonelyLupine ~lonewolf

Anthro Artist

12 years ago

My primary access to Sonic in my developing years was the Archie comics.

Laini ~laini

Watcher

12 years ago

To go with their egos? :P

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

snort

Ajna ~ajna

Drawer of cute girls

12 years ago

Cuz it's cute

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

I have no argument for this

F_Mr ~fmr

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Lol was expecting to see a comment like this. And was expecting you to be the one to say it haha

Lisky ~lisky

Traditional Artist

12 years ago

Because clearly the 12th and 14th chromosomes become corrupt when forming with animal features, and therefor head-size is the compensation for the deformation?

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

....

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

no u

Lisky ~lisky

Traditional Artist

12 years ago

But... but my fanfics D:

Lisky ~lisky

Traditional Artist

12 years ago

I love you :B

LonelyLupine ~lonewolf

Anthro Artist

12 years ago

This comment wins. Everybody go home now.

Chakat-shadows ~chakat-shadows

Watcher

12 years ago

I would think it is more connected to the strange fur colors. LIKE BLUE.

Chakat-shadows ~chakat-shadows

Watcher

12 years ago

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Y-YOU SUCK
THAT'S DISCRIMINATION
CRIES IN CORNER

Chakat-shadows ~chakat-shadows

Watcher

12 years ago

Cry all you want, watched you too long to know your not. Your most likley plot revenge.

Chakat-shadows ~chakat-shadows

Watcher

12 years ago

oh oh oh,,,,lets not forget the chest, crotches, armes, stomaches(for the samiches), and the ever famous VAGS that can take a 12 foot long 1 foot thick PEENER. just sayin

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Well yeah but those are specifically altered to suit fetishes or whatever. My beef with large head size is when it ISN'T intentional because it's just a little bit off rather than "yeah I stylized this to make it cute, so WHAT". Which is really often.

Chakat-shadows ~chakat-shadows

Watcher

12 years ago

Ok, all joking aside. You are one of the few that make the head porportional. Why all the otheres make them big? As many reasons as artists, wish I could give a more enlightened answer.

rjbartrop ∞rjbartrop

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Not just Sonic, but there's a long tradition of drawing large heads. I think it's about making more childlike proportions that trigger the child rearing instincts that make you go, "Awwww, that's cute."

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Maybe, but I see it in more "realistic" / "srs" / "adult" stuff too. Idk I think what happens is that artists forget to relate the animal head back to the body once it's complete and see if it looks too big in proportion.

rjbartrop ∞rjbartrop

Digital Artist

12 years ago

I do know some artists try to apply traditional proportion rules to anthros, and while the head may be the "right" number of heads high, with the muzzle and everything, it still ends up looking like too much head.

HyenaVoid ~hyenavoid

Musician

12 years ago

I've been FOUND!

Mifmaf ~mifmaf

PrOn Artist

12 years ago

Have you seen how big their eyes are? They need all that head to still have a human sized brain in there.

Chakat-shadows ~chakat-shadows

Watcher

12 years ago

Lizab ~lizab

Traditional Artist

12 years ago

7 head body proportions are more work.

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Netrogo ~netrogo

Watcher

12 years ago

You've met me, do you really need to know why my head's so big?

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

No I know why YOUR head's so big...

Fuzzycoma ~fuzzycoma

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Have you ever tried drawing a character with a big head? Just to see how it feels. XD

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

It feels WRONGGGG

Fuzzycoma ~fuzzycoma

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Dont wuss out on me. I KNOW you can be an adult about this.

Cajes ~cajes

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Drawing or fur suits? If drawing.... yeah that bothers me as well. Looks like bobbleheads.

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Suits I totally get. You gotta build around a human head that's already there. (If you didn't... creepy.)

Cajes ~cajes

Digital Artist

12 years ago

True. Still creepy as hell though..

Nix ~alishka

i draw stuff

12 years ago

cuz they don't look right when i make them littlllleeeeeeeee

F_Mr ~fmr

Digital Artist

12 years ago

You know who else has a big head? My mommmmmmm~

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

IS YOUR MOM A FURRY

F_Mr ~fmr

Digital Artist

12 years ago

PROBLY. But its funny, once and only once i tried explaining what an anthro is to her. She calls them "furbies"

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

MY DAD DID THAT TOO
he also refuses to talk about it any further

F_Mr ~fmr

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Parents are big narrow minded dummies >:C

Anri ~tikki

Derp supreme

12 years ago

MY SPIRIT ANIMAL IS CHIBI!

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

how... chikki of you

LavaBat ~lavabat

Watcher

12 years ago

They do it because they use bobble heads as anatomy references!

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

God bobbleheads creep me out, no word of a lie D8

LavaBat ~lavabat

Watcher

12 years ago

They creep you out eh? Then I shall sent you 100 bobble heads as a gift! 100 evil bobble heads! >:3

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

>:I

LavaBat ~lavabat

Watcher

12 years ago

I dun a bad thing!

JackMcSlay ~jackmcslay

Traditional Artist

12 years ago

Maybe they're just short?

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Hey I'M short and my head isn't that big

Spoonyfox ~spoonyfox

Ain't no goddamn fox

12 years ago

I blame alcohol.

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Beer goggles. They're bad for you

Spoonyfox ~spoonyfox

Ain't no goddamn fox

12 years ago

Maybe it isn't their heads that are big, but the bodies that are small? :o

Randt ~randt

Digital Artist

12 years ago

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT BIG HEADS?

big hats

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Hard to find hats >:
One of my bros has that problem.

Randt ~randt

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Me too! Getting hats that fit on the baseball team was always difficult.

zenia ~zenia

Digital Artist

12 years ago

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12190576/

hehe

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Wahahahaha!
Awesome.

stokerbramwell ~stokerbramwell

Watcher

12 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvW5aynsB8I

SlippingStar~Chakat Shade ~slippingstar

Anthro Artist|ze/they|shi/hir

12 years ago

I make a point not to!

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Goooooood. OuO

Caltroplay ~caltroplay

PrOn Artist

12 years ago

It happens from time to time with me, sometimes purposeful, sometimes not.
A lot of my sketches I'll even put in notes when I notice I made the heads too big, an arm in the wrong place, and other errors I made that could easily be fixed with the transform tool while inking.
But of course there are always times I don't catch it.
XD

Ziblie ~ziblie

Digital Artist

12 years ago

Putting notes in the sketches is a good idea actually. o_o

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