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* I want a great picture just like you do, so to avoid your nearly finishing a piece and then my pointing out basic model errors, for paid pieces I'm urging a gesture sketch (<2mins) and for gifts/prizes politely encouraging one, so I can help with proportions before it becomes too late to change them: it needs to show head, stripes, limbs, and body as featuring in the final piece. This particularly if you tend to treat quads stylistically differently to anthros (e.g. cuter/chibi). Nearly half of my paid commission artists seem unable to break out of the standard furry mold, and I panic if I think it's too arduous to fix things..
When we draw as youngsters, we tend to draw symbols instead of what we see, and I think many furry artists are doing a more sophisticated version of that: most don't reference real animals any more because they 'know' how to draw whatever it is, and that collective drift is reinforced when they're only ever glancing at work drawn by others who also don't check primary source materials.
I've binned too much money by silently skipping uploads of unusable pieces because they're 'complete' and I feel bad asking for a redraw - and I never ask for refunds. I'm going to start pointing to this text, asking for paid commissions to be fixed privately with annotations, and if a fix isn't forthcoming on an agreed schedule, I'll be uploading the annotated versions to use as counter-examples.
Latest reference
Old reference: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38198407/
Martial arts style poses are good, with blue glowy magic!
Update: needs white eyebrow dots! But not the wonky head stripe!
Physically quadrupedal, looking natural when sitting, but only walks upright and has thumbs.
Pel is physically more therio than anthro, but has opposable thumbs, prefers to walk upright, and will fill in tax forms rather than eat them.
Practices Tai Chi and blue glowy magic. Think Stephen Strange, or drippy anti-gravity fluid
Sometimes made of shiny rubber
He often wears a waistcoat - or just his fur - it's generally squiggly lines and dots, and helps to focus his magic (allegedly - probably why his face stripes are bordered in gold fur). So long as you stick with the red and gold magic focusing theme, do what you like - I prefer these waistcoat interpretations rather than the original pattern, and the less radical versions which are cool.
His 'common law' wife is a hyena barrister called 'Hefty' and there's a gallery of them together if it's helpful.
For more background, see below, after the rant.
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Anti-ref because fully half my commissions have been with artists who are otherwise beautifully competent, but who struggle with the requested animal-shape (therio-morphic) badger head anatomy.
Badgers heads are as different to cats and dogs as horses are!
Badger skulls are long: they don't work normally with the usual sphere construction. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20172498/ Badgers have a smooth convex profile down from their ears to just short of their nose, and their eyes are a little over half way from their ears to their nose. And in particular, this character's neck follows the animal style of coming from the back of the skull, not underneath like humans'. And his arms and legs are all the same short length. Male badgers have a more domed head, but I'm relaxed on that given the character's 5-ARD intersex condition.
Use Google images to find a real badger with its head in the right direction. I don't mind if you photobash the thing if your style is realistic (really!), and then assess it for model accuracy just as you would any other subject - direction of gaze, visibility of obscured details, etc. Ask for feedback if that's not working - I'm happy to redline.
Hopefully the above will be clearer than the last rant - I wish I could soften the aggressive aspect for the honest mistakes and/or knowledgeable artists out there, but I'm fed up of wasting my money and my emotional energy trying to cajole so many otherwise skilled artists into drawing a properly animal-looking badger.
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Male, but with 5ARD intersex, so virile but looks FtM externally there under the fur, so we can stick with 'tastefully furred, no danglies'.
Inspiration music (for his magic escapades anyway) Mussorgsky's Night on a Bare Mountain: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fizh0M8TczA
When we draw as youngsters, we tend to draw symbols instead of what we see, and I think many furry artists are doing a more sophisticated version of that: most don't reference real animals any more because they 'know' how to draw whatever it is, and that collective drift is reinforced when they're only ever glancing at work drawn by others who also don't check primary source materials.
I've binned too much money by silently skipping uploads of unusable pieces because they're 'complete' and I feel bad asking for a redraw - and I never ask for refunds. I'm going to start pointing to this text, asking for paid commissions to be fixed privately with annotations, and if a fix isn't forthcoming on an agreed schedule, I'll be uploading the annotated versions to use as counter-examples.
Latest reference
Old reference: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38198407/
Martial arts style poses are good, with blue glowy magic!
Update: needs white eyebrow dots! But not the wonky head stripe!
Physically quadrupedal, looking natural when sitting, but only walks upright and has thumbs.
Pel is physically more therio than anthro, but has opposable thumbs, prefers to walk upright, and will fill in tax forms rather than eat them.
Practices Tai Chi and blue glowy magic. Think Stephen Strange, or drippy anti-gravity fluid
Sometimes made of shiny rubber
He often wears a waistcoat - or just his fur - it's generally squiggly lines and dots, and helps to focus his magic (allegedly - probably why his face stripes are bordered in gold fur). So long as you stick with the red and gold magic focusing theme, do what you like - I prefer these waistcoat interpretations rather than the original pattern, and the less radical versions which are cool.
His 'common law' wife is a hyena barrister called 'Hefty' and there's a gallery of them together if it's helpful.
For more background, see below, after the rant.
----
Anti-ref because fully half my commissions have been with artists who are otherwise beautifully competent, but who struggle with the requested animal-shape (therio-morphic) badger head anatomy.
Badgers heads are as different to cats and dogs as horses are!
Badger skulls are long: they don't work normally with the usual sphere construction. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20172498/ Badgers have a smooth convex profile down from their ears to just short of their nose, and their eyes are a little over half way from their ears to their nose. And in particular, this character's neck follows the animal style of coming from the back of the skull, not underneath like humans'. And his arms and legs are all the same short length. Male badgers have a more domed head, but I'm relaxed on that given the character's 5-ARD intersex condition.
Use Google images to find a real badger with its head in the right direction. I don't mind if you photobash the thing if your style is realistic (really!), and then assess it for model accuracy just as you would any other subject - direction of gaze, visibility of obscured details, etc. Ask for feedback if that's not working - I'm happy to redline.
Hopefully the above will be clearer than the last rant - I wish I could soften the aggressive aspect for the honest mistakes and/or knowledgeable artists out there, but I'm fed up of wasting my money and my emotional energy trying to cajole so many otherwise skilled artists into drawing a properly animal-looking badger.
----
Male, but with 5ARD intersex, so virile but looks FtM externally there under the fur, so we can stick with 'tastefully furred, no danglies'.
Inspiration music (for his magic escapades anyway) Mussorgsky's Night on a Bare Mountain: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fizh0M8TczA
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