Finally dug out a stack of unfinished drawings from months ago, and I can see why I left some of 'em unfinished: the poses are boring. (Those ones I erased.)

But how to get to an interesting pose? First of all, forget the photo references: they're good for drawing backgrounds, useless for character poses. What gets you hot? Draw that. And you know your artistic anatomy well enough to know what bodies look like moving in three-dimensional space, right? Cool. (Remember, your significant other is your very own live model, and you can always ask your friends to pose for you.)

Now, what's this pose telling us about the character? What emotion is the pose trying to convey? The first thing the viewer will notice is body language; the facial expression will be a very important gloss on that, but first things first.

Oh right, porn. We wanna draw two (or more) characters fucking like animals in heat, so we're using perspective to solve a problem in projective geometry -- this thing going in there looks like this from that angle -- and we're exaggerating things, because ALL porn is an exaggeration of RL sex. But it's the emotional content that sells the drawn image, so you're drawing (recognizably human but nonhuman) people, not just plumbing diagrams. Briefly, you're drawing "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Emotion!

See? Drawing furry porn is easy.