Lol i was born for this

Scorpionfly, cock-of-the-rock, okapi, blue tree monitor, gharial, chinese giant salamander, bichir, thylacine, mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, gorgonopsid, elephant shrew, lammergieir, fossa, mantidfly

There you go, at least one for each vertebrate phylum + some insects + some extinct stuff, maybe one will tickle your fancy?

you...are a god...
wow thanks so much! i knew a lot of these animals, but i really want to expand my horizon with insects and reptiles/amphibians so i really love this list!
i do love love love fossa, such cute faces. ahh ;-;
im very drawn to fossa, quetzalcoatlus, and the bearded vulture.

ive been trying to make a scorpion characters for a long time, could you maybe give some tips on how i could even begin drawing an anthro one??? x_x i cannot seem to do it but theyre one of my favorite animals

:D You're so welcome, any chance for me to info dump about weird animals is very appreciated!

If your looking for more cool ectotherms may I suggest Boelen's pythons, panther chameleons, olms, tentacle snakes, milk frogs, croc monitors, crocodile skinks, leaf-tailed geckos, sailfin lizards, rhinkals, bush vipers, rhino vipers, rainbow boas, wheel bugs, ebony jewelwings, orchid mantids, trilobite beetles, bee flies, uropygids, solfugids, black beauty stick insects, magnolia green jumping spiders, giant isopods, and horseflies (they can have crazy cool eyes)

And yeah, those are some of my favs too. Lammergeiers really put the dinosaur in avian dinosaur :D

I've actually never tried to draw an anthro scorp so I had to take a minute and try to figure that one out via sketching http://m.imgur.com/HnEYc8a (feel free to use any of that in your own studies)

I found that the way scorpion's claws work doesnt really lend itself to being used as an anthro characters main set of arms, so I just used the secondary set to put hands on, it also helps of you dont think of the tail as the same thing as a mammalian tail, it's more of an extension of the body. Really study the way those joints work on the animal too, it usually ends up being more important than you'd think. Primarily though, I think the key is to really look at the anatomy of the critter and determine how each part of it corresponds to the human body, its A LOT harder with invertebrates than with vertebrates, but it can still be done with an arthropod.

http://www.saroachman.co.za/Home/so.....--and-fictions

Like for instance, if you find the leg anatomy image there, you can relate the coxa to the upper arm, the femur - forearm, etc., for legs I would ignore the coxa and fashion them after the femur and tibia, using the last segments like a digitigrade foot.

Thats my methodology behind anthropomorphization anyway, experimenting a lot is really the best way to do it. :D I hoped this helped somewhat!

UGH I WISH I WAS AS COOL AS U like honestly im just sitting here with my mouth open in awe...you know so much stuff it is goals.
where'd ya learn all this??! did you take classes or read up somewhere?

thank you SO much, im gonna try so hard on this scorp guy and a lot more now! im very excited to draw new animals, i am going to work my tablet down to the wires >:3c
one of my dream pets is a croc skink! i have multiple snakes and geckos i could use for reference, i never thought of that :3c

LOL NO, I'm just a huge dweeb, you're undoubtedly cooler than me XD U wanna know what I did for fun as kid? Basically nothing but read old science books and field guides, then every time I'd go out I'd be catching critters and drawing them obsessively. Even to this day every time I see something new I nerd out a bit and have to go and identify it (and probably draw later). I've also had the opportunity to examine non-living specimens of quite a few species and figure out the way the body works firsthand, which is the most effective method in my opinion, even if it's not for the squeamish.

I think a keen sense of observation and a bit of curiosity go a very long way. I'm constantly surprised by the immense amount of stuff people miss going on around them. I've found that quite a lot of people don't know what robins are where I live and I literally cannot step outside without seeing like s i x of them.

That's what I like to hear! I bet he's gonna turn out fantastic :D

and me too, I adore croc skinks, although I think the next lizard in line for me might be a blue-tongued. Do use your own critters in studies, you'll be surprised how much you learn doing that. I have a pair of hissing roaches that make excellent models considering that they'll let me do anything I want with them, they're so useful :3

oh man dude i did that as a kid too!!! but i would like get bullied?? so i kinda stopped for a bit...but recently i just wanna go to the library and tAKE OUT EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL BOOK baafjfhfa
i had so many of those bug catching thingies, like the bug vacuum that sucked them up and was clear so u could look at them, but it didnt hurt em or anything
i really wanna do that again, since i have graduated i have a lot more time on my hands now so i definitely want to get in tune with nature again and catch them cuties and draw them and read all about a bunch of animals all day ahhhhh

Kiwi bird, pangolin, angler fish, gulper eel, eye-eye, Capuchian Monkey, Okapi, scorpion, Dumbo Octopus, koala, Basilisk Lizard.
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KIWIW, PANGOLIN, AYE AYE!
aye ayes were my favorite animal when i was a kid ^^

I'm a big fan of moles! Even though everyone knows what a mole is, I don't see too many on FA. I've been meaning to make a mole character myself, actually! Wombats are in the same boat.

I love skinks. A few of my favorites are blue-tailed skinks, crocodile skinks, and blue-tongued skinks.

Moths are super cute little bugs.

Pink fairy armadillo, tree kangaroo, tenric, saiga antelope-- those are about all I can think of at the moment.

i am making a pink fairy armadillo immediately and they will be named NIGIRI CAUSE THE RESEMBLANCE IS STRIKING
proof:
fairy armadillo-
https://www.sciencenews.org/sites/d.....k_itsalive.png
nigiri -
http://www.sushipierone.com/images/.....giri-u3391.png

omg that's gonna be so cute!

BRUH

red-eyed crocodile skinks, they make the funniest screeching sounds when they get defensive!

tufted deer are hella cute, bc who doesn't love a deer with tusks

Sunda Colugo are cute lil spotted nuggets... not entirely sure what they actually are tho

Gobi Jerboa cute lil mice/gerbil things?!?

Lowland Streaked Tenrec

Glaucus Atlanticus a badass lookin sea slug

venezuelan poodle moths <3

Saiga Antelope has a weird lil nose, but's still kinda cute

Bush Vipers are always fun!

Thorny Dragons!!!!!

I essentially just made a list of all the types of characters I'd like... except the croc skink, I already have one ^^
Have fun!

I SO SO WANT A SEA SLUG, I HAVE BEEN WANTING A SLUG/SNAIL FURRY u reminded me thank u!! ;;;
i love all these suggestions, thank you! i gotta start a list

manta ray or https://www.google.com/search?q=coa.....03BioQ_AUIBigB