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How I made my fursona
6 years ago
This gets asked every so often and I’m lazy and hate repeating myself.
I wrote this out a long time ago and was cleaning up notes and since it's almost thirteen !?!?!?!?! year on FA I'll go ahead and post.
I'm sure you've seen stories like "since birth I was always obsessed with cartoons and drawing and aced art class and have dozens of filled sketchbooks and my fursona came to me in a flash of genius" and felt discouraged- well, Bennu is a combination of ineptitude and indecision.
I liked cartoons but my main teenage interests were more guitar and writing sci-fi and fantasy. I was inspired by Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side, so in like 8th grade I had an idea for a comic and used cartoon animal people for me and the redhead girl I had a crush on (who became a vixen of course) but that died quickly and I just dabbled in art- I think I drew a total of one dragon in my pre-furry days.
Then at some point in like 2004 I stumbled on furry art online, and I started thinking of a fursona, because that’s what you do right? I just had some paper and color pencils. I think first I was working on a green tiger, something stealthy looking but that didn’t work well. I took some online quiz that said African wild dog, but that is a lot of work to color.
With no strong choice I fell back on astrology, either Aries goat or Chinese monkey.
But I couldn't draw a goat, or monkey, and dragon head is the best I could do. And since I still liked the idea of comedy, a monkey/dragon hybrid sounded like the silliest thing possible so I tried that.
My mom was also born in the year of Monkey, and my dad always stomps around the house and grumps and hoards books, so it made sense (and was funny) to have monkey mom and dragon dad.
Since I was going “funny animal person” I made him fully anthro. That meant slap on monkey tail and dragon head and boom, instant fursona!
I went with yellow (horrible banana or lemon shades at first) because I’m blonde and blond is yellow right? NO but that didn’t stop me lol.
I just made him the same color all over, with slightly darker hair. I never really thought of doing anything fancy with his colors in spite of starting as a painter, haha.
Then I was dating an artist and she added some details, like the snoot scales, and ever since I’ve just gone along those basic lines. I have added to his facial hair over the years but it's still 90% the same basic idea. banana colored dumbass.
I wrote this out a long time ago and was cleaning up notes and since it's almost thirteen !?!?!?!?! year on FA I'll go ahead and post.
I'm sure you've seen stories like "since birth I was always obsessed with cartoons and drawing and aced art class and have dozens of filled sketchbooks and my fursona came to me in a flash of genius" and felt discouraged- well, Bennu is a combination of ineptitude and indecision.
I liked cartoons but my main teenage interests were more guitar and writing sci-fi and fantasy. I was inspired by Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side, so in like 8th grade I had an idea for a comic and used cartoon animal people for me and the redhead girl I had a crush on (who became a vixen of course) but that died quickly and I just dabbled in art- I think I drew a total of one dragon in my pre-furry days.
Then at some point in like 2004 I stumbled on furry art online, and I started thinking of a fursona, because that’s what you do right? I just had some paper and color pencils. I think first I was working on a green tiger, something stealthy looking but that didn’t work well. I took some online quiz that said African wild dog, but that is a lot of work to color.
With no strong choice I fell back on astrology, either Aries goat or Chinese monkey.
But I couldn't draw a goat, or monkey, and dragon head is the best I could do. And since I still liked the idea of comedy, a monkey/dragon hybrid sounded like the silliest thing possible so I tried that.
My mom was also born in the year of Monkey, and my dad always stomps around the house and grumps and hoards books, so it made sense (and was funny) to have monkey mom and dragon dad.
Since I was going “funny animal person” I made him fully anthro. That meant slap on monkey tail and dragon head and boom, instant fursona!
I went with yellow (horrible banana or lemon shades at first) because I’m blonde and blond is yellow right? NO but that didn’t stop me lol.
I just made him the same color all over, with slightly darker hair. I never really thought of doing anything fancy with his colors in spite of starting as a painter, haha.
Then I was dating an artist and she added some details, like the snoot scales, and ever since I’ve just gone along those basic lines. I have added to his facial hair over the years but it's still 90% the same basic idea. banana colored dumbass.
