Hey everyone, Merry Christmas (or happy holiday season). It's been....wow, four months since I last said anything here. Well, a lot's happened since then. I had a semester of classes at my university and did quite well, finishing with a 3.557 average for the term. I finally got a real job, working as a delivery driver for a local bagel and coffee shop, the shift times for which resulted in my almost completely reversing my sleep schedule. And I fell in love with a wonderfully sweet male gray fox, causing me to reconsider everything I thought I knew about my sexuality. But none of those are why I'm writing this journal.

I'm looking for art advice. Primarily, I'd like to know if there are any tutorials tips, and/or references you've found particularly useful for helping improve your technique, especially in regards to anthro characters. I'm looking for things like a layout of the whole development process from simple shapes to the finished character, the basic elements of common anthro design as well as species-specific features, fur texturing and shading techniques, and so forth...pretty much anything you've found useful, whether you got it from an instruction book or somewhere online. (If it's from a book, tell me the name of the book.)

Also, I still need material to practice drawing with so feel free to make requests.