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16 years ago
sometimes (or usually) I'll think'n about the way how I present the furry stuff (art, life way, anything)
my teachers told me I have to paint something which are around me, like people, landscape, etc.
so I always(yeah, not just usually) think about how can I draw something is both furry & around my life.
of course the furry are my life, they fulfill my life, but no one know if I didn't tell them, so that's why I feel painting furry is so hard.
glad is, I think I already find out a way to do, it's still in my brain though, I'll do it recently, and let my teachers believe it :)
my teachers told me I have to paint something which are around me, like people, landscape, etc.
so I always(yeah, not just usually) think about how can I draw something is both furry & around my life.
of course the furry are my life, they fulfill my life, but no one know if I didn't tell them, so that's why I feel painting furry is so hard.
glad is, I think I already find out a way to do, it's still in my brain though, I'll do it recently, and let my teachers believe it :)
or when people behave like animals?
good luck with your idea!
What about painting scenes with both furries and humans in them? Or painting anthros in real places, for example on a city street among the crowd?
I've been thinking about it for like... 5 years?.. And still have no idea.
1. How do you explain to non-furries what you find attractive in this genre? How do you explain what they should find attractive in it?
2. If you find it physically attractive, how do you explain it to those who find this idea outright repulsive? Good critics can see right through your work into your very mind... how do you explain what's so "art" about painting make-believe physically attractive alien creatures? What do you answer when a critic asks "Aren't you just painting porn for yourself?"
3. In fineart: traditionally painted representational works is "old stuff", moving towards representational instead of conceptual is a "step backwards", animals is a very very banal/kitch subject mater (everyone ridicules Franz Marc for painting animals; the way he did it is "sort of OK" because he was moving towards abstraction, but sticking to such banal subject matter is an unforgivable sin), illustration is too primitive means for art... how in hell does one pass off traditionally painted illustrations of anthropomorphic animals in such an environment?!
Ofcourse there are a bunch of great ideas and symbols possible with this anthropomorphic animal genre, and we know them intuitively. Like the fact we're "just" animal, the fact that the idea of common descent hasn't made it into cultural consciousness (people still instinctively deny being "low" as animals), explorations of sexuality and sexual attractiveness, life stripped to its very essence, animal symbolism in culture, genetic determinism, ethics towards animals, personhood, consciousness, etc. etc... The tricky part is how do you approach these themes in a way that's interesting and not banal. 3. (above) is the biggest problem, imho, furry doesn't fit any ideas of what art should be like in our times.