Furry Fandom and Drama General -

[CIA Nigger]

part of the art problem with furries is that a lot of them try to learn art from each others drawings without ever referencing photos of the actual animals they are drawing

it's good to learn from great artists, but you can't learn exclusively that way

Or they'll do what the legacy furries did and copy some older style wholesale, either anime or some older cartoons. Oldschool furry art has that distinct look of someone copying classic WB/Disney but drawn in some older 90s paint programs (or drawn on physical mediums).

You can tell how many artists got into the fandom based on what style they try to imitate.

 

[Kled]

They can't extrapolate from those to anthro versions of those animals, though, because they aren't really artists. They're just imitators who managed to imitate one very specific style.

This is true. The majority of furries are complacent as fuck while at the same time copy the shit out of each other with minimal changes that pertain to their own signature style. This is why all dogs look the same (big cartoonish muzzles, huge eyes, overly fluffy) and most other animals are either rare to see or drawn poorly. There's a guy i follow on twitter (Itakeyourlemons) who has this problem. They're so sameface-y that their wolves and bears look the same. I'll post the examples below, but it's an example on how most furry artists revel in their complacency.

Spoiler: ITakeYourLemons

A lot of their designs carry extremely similar traits when sometimes they look insanely goofy or just unneeded. It might sound like im salty but I'm not. It's just something i've noticed and it's pretty annoying to constantly see. Especially if they keep making cry tweets about how they feel like they've failed as a freelancer.

And frequently when told to try and draw an animal like how it looks, they reply with “let people draw what they want” or “but people put tits on snakes/dragons/sharks/etc.”

I remember last Christmas season, there was a thing going around where you would draw your fursona as a caribou, and some people were like “hey btw caribou don’t have dog noses or deer tails” and oh my god were there some people pissed off by that. I’m talking big threads where people basically said “let people draw dog deer if they want.”

Like fine, do whatever, but don’t pretend you actually know how to draw anything other than dogs lol.

I've been seeing this attitude a lot lately. This "let people draw what they want/do what they wanna do/learn whenever they feel like it" My favorite part is when the same people then try to use the entire "THINK OF THE CHILDREN BEGINNER ARTISTS!" IF you pay attention to their art, you will start to notice that they've stagnated and become complacent in their own style and someone left them a comment that said "this could be better" or something close to this so they got upset and felt the need to make a massive tweet string rant about how unsolicited critiques are the same as getting assaulted on the street or that it triggered them so bad that they just felt the need to stop drawing. I don't know why this attitude is so prevalent in the furry fandom or in any artist circle but it needs to stop.

 

[Power Armor]

this is four different artists

 

[Tron: Deadly Dicks]

this is four different artists
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fuck

 

[Power Armor]

fuck

here's my receipts

 

[DemonBox]

this is four different artists
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Really? I couldn't tell the difference, they could be alternate accounts for all we know!!

 

[Power Armor]

artists, especially """kemono""" ones are the most common targets for people trying to steal their look

rudragon was the first of these four iirc.

 

[Jangarango]

This is true. The majority of furries are complacent as fuck while at the same time copy the shit out of each other with minimal changes that pertain to their own signature style. This is why all dogs look the same (big cartoonish muzzles, huge eyes, overly fluffy) and most other animals are either rare to see or drawn poorly. There's a guy i follow on twitter (Itakeyourlemons) who has this problem. They're so sameface-y that their wolves and bears look the same. I'll post the examples below, but it's an example on how most furry artists revel in their complacency.

Spoiler: ITakeYourLemons

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A lot of their designs carry extremely similar traits when sometimes they look insanely goofy or just unneeded. It might sound like im salty but I'm not. It's just something i've noticed and it's pretty annoying to constantly see. Especially if they keep making cry tweets about how they feel like they've failed as a freelancer.

Yeah I’ve been following them for a little while as well. I genuinely had no idea they were drawing bears?? I still don’t know for sure tbh. I like their canine art, but all the others just look like dogs. Frankly they should just step back and work on practicing the faces of not-dogs (not hyenas though lol).

 

[Uncle Warren]

this is four different artists
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This probably should be a conversation to fit the art thread.

 

[Power Armor]

This probably should be a conversation to fit the art thread.

i appreciate your backseat driving and all but even if it were there's barely anything left to discuss

 

[Sheeeeeiiiiiittt]

artists, especially """kemono""" ones are the most common targets for people trying to steal their look

rudragon was the first of these four iirc.

ZuDragon is actually RuDragon’s adult alt account. No excuse for the other ones though

 

[Power Armor]

 

[Cactus Wings]

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I honestly just call it the "girl irl" style at this point. It's as if all girls gravitate towards the same playful gem-eyed style, and it's kind of hilarious really.

Then again, there's some dude drawing the same dragon jock on repeat, literally just changing the color pattern and selling it at $30/hour.

 

[Yutyrannus]

Furry species butchering, especially in suit making, is so pervasive. It's why I always hear people asking "what makers are good at doing cats?" Because most people want a feline muzzle. Not a dog. Related, there's a maker I like despite them having a very same face style in their suits...and they have a recent example of this muzzle problem.

Spoiler: For reference: An actual red panda

Spoiler: The "red panda" suit head

https://archive.md/lwPt3/7f1cea844f2c717c4729a432a5b7fa45e38904b8.jpg
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lol houndsteeth is for fags

whats with their suits being so popular among ftm transtrenders and moralfaggy softsuiters anyways

 

[I'm Just A Human Bean]

Ran into a Twitter thread of furries celebrating their fursonas looking trans.
https://twitter.com/HuskyZephyr/status/1035568924228837376 https://archive.md/yHtGU (This was archived 17 minutes before I started this post. Is this a crosspost?)

Yes, these traits that male animals have, some that humans traditionally consider feminine, on a trans woman furry.

Spoiler

MtF peacock jumping spider. (The males have colorful patterns while females don't)

Spoiler: I don't know

Spoiler: so brave

https://archive.fo/FDQLd
"Trans Bird girls with colourful plumage. Trans Gazelle with small or big horns Trans caribou boys with antlers in winter."

 

[Frogasm]

can't lie, the barnyard one fucking confuses the shit out of me because it doesn't make sense for a bull to have an udder and no horns and NO ONE on the movie production team thought of that. Everyone knows male cows don't have udders. This had to have come up in conversation.

 

[Alberto Balsalm]

can't lie, the barnyard one fucking confuses the shit out of me because it doesn't make sense for a bull to have an udder and no horns and NO ONE on the movie production team thought of that. Everyone knows male cows don't have udders. This had to have come up in conversation.

It did come up, and the consensus was "udders are funny, so who cares". Lord knows how much they accidentally contributed to this.

 

[Cactus Wings]

Ran into a Twitter thread of furries celebrating their fursonas looking trans.
https://twitter.com/HuskyZephyr/status/1035568924228837376 https://archive.md/yHtGU (This was archived 17 minutes before I started this post. Is this a crosspost?)
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Yes, these traits that male animals have, some that humans traditionally consider feminine, on a trans woman furry.

Spoiler

MtF peacock jumping spider. (The males have colorful patterns while females don't)

Spoiler: I don't know

Spoiler: so brave

https://archive.fo/FDQLd
"Trans Bird girls with colourful plumage. Trans Gazelle with small or big horns Trans caribou boys with antlers in winter."

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Literally nobody but exceptional people write a story for their OC. I've yet to see anyone with a drop of insanity in their cockpit describe why their character has 4 dicks, except obviously trannies.

 

[Tron: Deadly Dicks]

Literally nobody but exceptional people write a story for their OC. I've yet to see anyone with a drop of insanity in their cockpit describe why their character has 4 dicks, except obviously trannies.

You clearly never played Corruption of Champions

 

[totse]

Literally nobody but exceptional people write a story for their OC. I've yet to see anyone with a drop of insanity in their cockpit describe why their character has 4 dicks, except obviously trannies.

It really does scale. At the heights of exceptionalism, you can find veritable novelas of backstory that nobody ever wanted to know. And at that point, it tends to be less a "story" and more an assertion of true facts revealed to the writer via dreams, visions, or past life regression.