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Why don't I draw Humans?
8 years ago
Well well well, today I got a rather interesting question from someone on DA.
Well for me the short answer is I really find them to be boring. Like I really do, anthros to me offer so much more variety.
A longer answer would be, humans are drawn by practically everyone. You can find human art ANYWHERE! Why would anyone want me of all people to add to the pile? Now I know the things people are going to say and some of them were used in our conversation. Things like "you can reach a wider audience", "you can make a career out of it (cuz studios don't really like furries I guess)", "You can make more money".
I'll be pretty blunt here. I'm not trying to win over human lovers...
I never planned to make a career out of this...
I don't care about their money either...
Look I'm not trying to say, oh I'm too good for your money. I like making cash. But drawing to me is faaaar more than for money. I've been drawing for years LONG before I realized I could make a dime because I loved it. I may rip on sonic a lot but I'll always enjoy drawing that over humans because it was different, it was not like what most artist draw.
Humans are... ...well they're humans... I'm a human, you're a human, we've been living as humans are whole lives, we see humans on Tv, PCs, video games, the paper, the wall, the ground you name it. How can you blame someone for not being bored of humans? Now in art they are still everywhere. Theres really no lack of them obliviously. But how about animals with human like quality's? How about aliens with animal like properties? or how about just aliens? To put it simple Non human species can to F***ing anything! they can look like anything, you can mix and match whatever you want, color how ever you want, make them do whatever you want. with humans... there has to be a certain about of that something that keeps them human-like. Like its a literal ball and chain that can hold back on a characters design.
When I got more serious about drawing, its always been about trying something new, do what is rarely seen. Now... whether I've succeeded in that ill leave up to you, if I haven't well then I have motivation to keep trying and experimenting. I made the jump from sonic to furry BECAUSE I wanted to improve, get better, and keep the goal alive. Yes anthro was what made me wanna improve "anatomy", thats gotta be ironic. But hell it worked. I have so many ideas that humans just couldn't bring out of me.
I remember an old Mitzy picture I drew mocking some of the things the internet that people say. One of them being literally "Stop drawing what you're drawing and draw what I like such as anime" or something. That's just the kind of tone I feel when someone wants me to go out of my way to draw something I really don't enjoy. Maybe its not their intention but thats how it feels to me, to do something you enjoy your whole life just for some stranger to give you a list of why you should do something completely different... when that different thing is what millions already do.
I have nothing at all against people who love humans or artists who draw them, its just not for me. I'm sorry if that disappoints some of you but I gotta do what I love and do it the best I can and this is it.
***(update the guy unwatched me) hehehe see what i mean people? Don't change for anyone.
Well for me the short answer is I really find them to be boring. Like I really do, anthros to me offer so much more variety.
A longer answer would be, humans are drawn by practically everyone. You can find human art ANYWHERE! Why would anyone want me of all people to add to the pile? Now I know the things people are going to say and some of them were used in our conversation. Things like "you can reach a wider audience", "you can make a career out of it (cuz studios don't really like furries I guess)", "You can make more money".
I'll be pretty blunt here. I'm not trying to win over human lovers...
I never planned to make a career out of this...
I don't care about their money either...
Look I'm not trying to say, oh I'm too good for your money. I like making cash. But drawing to me is faaaar more than for money. I've been drawing for years LONG before I realized I could make a dime because I loved it. I may rip on sonic a lot but I'll always enjoy drawing that over humans because it was different, it was not like what most artist draw.
Humans are... ...well they're humans... I'm a human, you're a human, we've been living as humans are whole lives, we see humans on Tv, PCs, video games, the paper, the wall, the ground you name it. How can you blame someone for not being bored of humans? Now in art they are still everywhere. Theres really no lack of them obliviously. But how about animals with human like quality's? How about aliens with animal like properties? or how about just aliens? To put it simple Non human species can to F***ing anything! they can look like anything, you can mix and match whatever you want, color how ever you want, make them do whatever you want. with humans... there has to be a certain about of that something that keeps them human-like. Like its a literal ball and chain that can hold back on a characters design.
When I got more serious about drawing, its always been about trying something new, do what is rarely seen. Now... whether I've succeeded in that ill leave up to you, if I haven't well then I have motivation to keep trying and experimenting. I made the jump from sonic to furry BECAUSE I wanted to improve, get better, and keep the goal alive. Yes anthro was what made me wanna improve "anatomy", thats gotta be ironic. But hell it worked. I have so many ideas that humans just couldn't bring out of me.
I remember an old Mitzy picture I drew mocking some of the things the internet that people say. One of them being literally "Stop drawing what you're drawing and draw what I like such as anime" or something. That's just the kind of tone I feel when someone wants me to go out of my way to draw something I really don't enjoy. Maybe its not their intention but thats how it feels to me, to do something you enjoy your whole life just for some stranger to give you a list of why you should do something completely different... when that different thing is what millions already do.
I have nothing at all against people who love humans or artists who draw them, its just not for me. I'm sorry if that disappoints some of you but I gotta do what I love and do it the best I can and this is it.
***(update the guy unwatched me) hehehe see what i mean people? Don't change for anyone.
Fun fact, all three of these are races in the game Starbound, Hylotl, Floran and Novakid.
Like you said, there are plenty of other artist that do draw humans that the guy could watch, so why bother you about it. Unless an artist asks what would liked to be seen there was really no reason to bother you about this.
Just rally make me wonder why he even watched you in the first place.
I kinda dislike drawing humans (or even playing as a human in any game that lets me not play as a human) cause well humans are everywhere and everyday I meet humans
so yeah if I wanted humans I'd just return to IRL stuff. You don't see anthros IRL.
I can honestly say just about everyone's had to make this decision at some point and you made the right call.
I don't draw humans much but there are some simple human characters I like enough (preferably other artists characters) However if you get me to play as a human when I'd much rather pick the beast/creature character I'll always pick the beast character, I'd never like to be a human character unless that's all there is and the game happens to be good enough to where I wouldn't mind so there's some exceptions but that's why I don't like Street Fighter, or Tekken as much as I would Killer Instinct as an example. for the exact same reasons you stated in your journal. I'm already a human in real-life what better way to escape reality for a bit by being something your not? '3'
That being said it's always good to keep human anatomy books and references around considering that even though you are drawing anthros they can pretty much be as much as just humans with animal heads with fur and tails etc. In those instance (which a majority of my characters are basically) So knowing how to draw the human body is always a good thing to keep in mnd. Granted I think you already know that :)
I can certainly understand the feeling of not being forced to draw something you don't want. I don't wanna draw m/m cause it's something I'm not comfy with and it's something I'd never touch. and all I can say is you do what you wish. :D