Having read your journal, I'll offer a small critique: between the head shape and the upper body pose, her breast look...kinda abnormal.

well i am not a artisit by any means but the arms look odd to me and it makes her head look small

i agree, its just odd looking, compared to your other works. and yes, the pose makes it look like a really skilled 4th grader drew it...

I think how the arms are positioned, it just does not look natural or comfortable.

Re: your journal question...
It's just that she looks. Erm. A bit manly in an awkward way. And i'm not talking about the muscles.
And as diarmaidhutchence noted, the boobs are a bit on the weird side.

But i like the idea of a buff panther femme, so please do some more! :)

I like the idea of her. My comment is do a image search on the She-Hulk. She will give you some idea on a womanly body with muscles.
But Great idea!

Her head doesn't really give off a "panther" vibe... honestly I thought she was a panda. Her arms look a little too long as well.

She looks a bit manly. I think that her hips need to be wider in correspondence to the upper body, in an hourglass-shape. The pose also looks stiff abit. I hope this helps!

The head doesn't look in proportion to the rest of the body, it's too small.
One other thing, did she get implants?
On account of the nature of muscles and the cutting cycles bodybuilders do, females tend to lose their breasts.So some get implants to give them a "chest"

Ok, here goes, the arms are too big. Femme bodybuilders tend to value the overall picture, nothing too big, nothing too small. The breasts look like silicon globes instead of pear shaped. The legs are like a trunk. What she looks like is a female o´d with steroids. And the head is too small compared to the body. Maybe some analysis on real life female bodybuilders or fitness nuts would do the trick. She looks like a german swimmer before the fall of the berlin wall.

The one thing I'd say is to remember that females' pelvises are generally larger than their chests (whereas with males it's the other way around). That should help a lot of the proportional issues in this drawing.

The second version is much better. Coming soon

well I think its the posture, is she lying on the floor... or just try to make her posture more feminine, remember a woman technically walks along a line and is the legs cross over. if you want to get a feminine posture.

I like females with muscles, both IRL and in art.

Suggestions for next time:

Larger head - big cats have big heads to take big bites of big prey.

Wider hips, bigger glutes/butt - females are built that way, and it looks good on them.

Small tits on big pecs - take a look at the photograph of BeastInShow that I sent you; like BIS, Laura is lean and has lots of definition - there won't be a lot of tit fat over her pecs.

Arms and shoulders a bit too big for a female with a torso of that size. Females, including body builders, carry more of their muscle mass lower (butt/glutes) than men.

Basically, you drew her like a guy with huge silicone implants. You can draw fine muscular females, like your drawing of BeastInShow: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1708813/
Use female bodybuilder reference photos. You have been drawing males so long that you don't need refs for them anymore, but you haven't drawn a lot of females yet, and they really are shaped differently, even those with admirable muscles. You had a ref photo for Beast, and your drawing came out great! You are just starting to draw female musclefurrys (hurrah!) and I suspect that using reference photos for a while will take care of everything.

(I've got it easy - my photomorphs have the reference photo built in.)

Yea I would not say your best drawing ever, for her head, chest, hands and feet-ankles.

well since u posted a journal to ask the things that personally "bother" me are
the position u dont know if she is floating , lieing down on something or if a "puppet master" holds strings on top of her . with a background of something she was lieing onto it would have chocked less i think
then i think the head is a bit small but above all personally its the connection between the arms and the chest the lower muscles seems to come out of the chest like a pair of wings and not even from inside her clothes due to the lower muscle (sorry am not good in those in english) that should be right under the shoulder.
am sorry
i wouldnt have dared to say that if u wouldnt have asked in ure journal. hope u wont be mad

It's a Work in Progress. It say right there.

Not at all, buddy. *licks and hugs*

She sounds like a good work out partner for Meanbeard who goes at it till he is the last one in the workout room on his days off and after work. She does sound like she will work out very well.

Well, it's not bad. The problem I'm seeing is that the physique is built more masculine. The chest is huge, the waist is small. Women (traditionally) have larger hips than chests. The way her arms are hanging looks less like someone showing off and more of a buff marionette.

Erm....


First, I agree the head's way too small. And it looks like she can't hold her arms normally.

she looks flat.

HAWT!!!

Wow amazing I didn't even notice her you drew fer wow
good job and so cool

hmm well I never good but the thys

The head looks way too small in comparison to the body (and the pose is a little strange)

Other than that, it's good.

Looking at it. I see a few problems (will have to make a list. I"m not gonna trash it even though it's gonna look like I am)

1. Pose - Looks awkward and uncomfortable. A few people have mentioned the stringed puppet look so I'll save repeating it.

2. Face/Head - The face just looks a little too masculine. I've heard of a few artists who can't do a bald female cahracter cause it's next to impossible to make them look feminine without the hair.

3. Build - I know a couple of people have commented on it but I am going into a diffrent route. It looks almost as if you are trying to shoehorn a female into your regular muscled male. A Set of Tits does not a woman make! I think you might have to create a totally new "build" for this character and be able to apply it. Perhaps going backwards from your standard and altering pieces to get to a female form. A woman's hips are different for instance, making the torso look different. and so forth.

4. Boobs - Alright as I said a set of tits doesn't make it a woman. But in this case you might have to. In female bodybuilding, the boobs nearly disappear due to the loss of body fat (as that's what boobs mostly are. fatty tissue). So more than likely for her to have any sort of "Rack" she'd have to have had a boob job at some time. Just a story element you might want to take into account


I HIGHLY recommend the work of someone named David C. Matthews over at DA (Links: http://dcmatthews.deviantart.com/ ) if you need reference on how to do a muscled female without it looking masculine.

I hope this is atleast somewhat helpful.

she looks really stiff.