
Something I've noticed. Most furry artist draw adults. I don't see many children. That said, people don't pop out of ground as adults; they start out as children. I've always felt it a good idea to occassionally stop and wonder what type of childhhood my characters had since it can have such a strong influence on their adult personalities. Here are four of my more popular characters as I imagine as young kids. As I mull this around in my head I realize that Jessica would have at this age probably considered Carla to be one of those "Sissy Girls!", and Carla would've thought Jessica was just some mean Tomboy. Twitch is just Twitch, and Rosemary's Pompadour has alway been the same size.
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Yeah I know what you meant, and you are correct that without a past the character usually don't ring true. I have heard Larry Niven being credited with saying that a novel is like an iceberg. The viewer only sees ten percent of all the writing that went into creating it. The rest is all notes, drafts, brainstorming and research. While I don't go to such extremes this is why I often do lots of development sketches before proceeding to the final piece. I want my worlds and people to have a since of soul and life.
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