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First of all, credits go to
Sparklies for all the art.
and to
TerraMcBass for all the writing
and also
QuetzaDrake for coming up with the "quetzadrake theory" featured here. (hope you don't mind me adding it.)
Episode 2: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3740998/
I do believe I had commissioned these drawings from her, but she always evaded the question of how much I owe her.
Anyway. I wanted to make a documentary about furries. about a touchy subject, furry tattoos and non-natural markings. because they get so much flak.
I'm offering alternatives here so that furries can have artificial marking that are plausible. This is actually my one submission that I hope will spread amongst the most people because I really think it could help furry artists out there explain their stuff and be useful.
So if you know people who are getting wise-cracks about their character's tattoos and haven't come up with a proper explanation, show them this. Or heck, just fave it and pimp it out to anybody concerned or interested.
(also, if you think you have another method or explanation that could be discussed, send it to me through notes. if I make a second episode to this documentary and showcase your method, I will credit you.)
just in case: hit f5
Sparklies for all the art.and to
TerraMcBass for all the writingand also
QuetzaDrake for coming up with the "quetzadrake theory" featured here. (hope you don't mind me adding it.)Episode 2: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3740998/
I do believe I had commissioned these drawings from her, but she always evaded the question of how much I owe her.
Anyway. I wanted to make a documentary about furries. about a touchy subject, furry tattoos and non-natural markings. because they get so much flak.
I'm offering alternatives here so that furries can have artificial marking that are plausible. This is actually my one submission that I hope will spread amongst the most people because I really think it could help furry artists out there explain their stuff and be useful.
So if you know people who are getting wise-cracks about their character's tattoos and haven't come up with a proper explanation, show them this. Or heck, just fave it and pimp it out to anybody concerned or interested.
(also, if you think you have another method or explanation that could be discussed, send it to me through notes. if I make a second episode to this documentary and showcase your method, I will credit you.)
just in case: hit f5
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I had forgotten about this. I love the branding most. <3
I may make more installements of this. When I find enough extra methods to make another one, would you like to be the artist again? I'd like to have consistency. :)
I actually don't think I'd use this method anymore. What I would say now is going on with my character Campy is either something involving freeze-branding (basically 'whitewashing' hair follicle pigments) and a theoretical recoloring/replacing of the damaged fur cells, or, well, straight-up genetic modification of the fur cells (it's the "future" in the comic, apparently, after all).
Also, localized genetic modification seems pretty plausible, heck, I wouldn't say it's so far off even today.
But since you wouldn't use that method anymore, do you mind having your name on it here?
Looks like no. 2 is widely accepted amidst FA. :D
The process is where you cut the skin and intentionally agitate it during the healing process to make the scar larger.
Here's a great video telling about a tribe that EVERY male member gets scarring over their body to look like Crocodiles: #
Since most people wouldn't want the same branding as others, or a new form of making brands would have to be made to make it quicker and cheaper for people to get one custom made, I'd say scarring would be the most likely method of getting a "tattoo".
On the fur dyeing method, I think that would be more used as people do now like they color their hair; something many do because, like now, it's nothing permanent, is painless, but gives individuality. It's also limited in the fact that fur moves and would prevent any type of detail from being incorporable.
This would also be an issue for the first option. Imagine getting a face tattoo then your fur grow long: You'd go from Mona Lisa to
the Scream painting. :P
And as far as dying goes, yes, it's not ideal, but, hey, it's out there, you know? it's good comfort to know you can use it.
Besides. I imagine such processes would be refined by the professionals. hairstylist would learn to dye fur appropriately, along with the grain, so that the shape hardly ever gets displaced because the hair always sits like that anyway.
And also, short fur wouldn't encounter those problems at all.
And like I said up there. Fur doesn't act the same way as hair, it doesn't grow continuously. You grow a coat at a set lenght and it just sheds when it's time. So your tattoo wouldn't get mangled after your fur kept growing since you'd get it when your coat is done growing.
And oh gosh I am so late in putting the third dpcumentary together, ugh.
However in the world I'm creating for my character, traditional tattoos are generally shown on furs that rock the "furless" look.
But when you think about it, tigers have coloured skin, too. if the ink was made to have those same pigments, yadda yadda yadda, it makes sense!