Thanks for the advice. I get it and I agree, paw-like hands can look better in many cases, but every time I've tried to draw them rather than hands it just ends up not looking right too, or not really fitting in with the style of the piece given I lean towards more detailed and "realistic" body proportions. Well, there is one exception, a kemono style thing I nearly finished from earlier this year, the only time I've been able to make something look good in such a style!
I've done as many personal as commission things this year, but haven't been sure about posting them here, so not neglecting creating for its own sake.
I had a quick look through your posts, I'd consider it though will likely need to ask you for more details on any of your characters I draw if I get around to it. Thanks for the thoughtful comment!
Thank you! Keep practicing and one day you'll probably be better than me, I don't get enough practice! Try not to compare yourself to other artists too much since that can be disheartening, and realistically there will probably always be artists better than both of us, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Don't give up, skeleton!
Love your username by the way, it certainly brings back bad memories 🤣😭
Colored sketch gift for a Zoroark friend! His left hand took forever for me to get looking something like correct aughhh! But practice is practice.
I'm considering offering the same kind of half-body sketch for free soon, as long as what's asked for isn't too outrageously complex. Let me know if you'd be interested. Just don't expect it to be done too fast, considering the time of year, and I'd be working on it parallel to my day job and a new refsheet for my fursona.
Oh my god, thank you for such a positive comment! It's very validating to have such an aspect of some work approved by another artist, thanks! And I'm glad you like how the character turned out in it. I hope when you try it in your own art you'll be pleased with the results!
Another bust commission I did earlier this year! Got lots of unfinished stuff cooking but among that, trying to get down a colored sketch style that I can put stuff out quicker with, then I hope to offer requests to you fine folks once I have that nailed. Y'all are the most supportive community I've found anywhere and 100% deserve it 😭❤
Here's something a very dear, long-time friend of mine commissioned! It's my first time drawing a sergal and she wanted the anatomically correct long sergal neck, that was quite a challenge in addition to all the floof! Still it's good to get practice.
Thank you so much! I was so unsure about that I weighed up just making him plantigrade because in the ref I was provided the character was, but the commissioner didn't make any mention either way. So it's reassuring that you noticed it in a positive way, thanks!
You and the community here are so nice! 😭💙 For sure I want to do a raffle or request here sometime in the future and I'd welcome you to take part if you'd wish! For sure it was, I would do well to be able to work consistently with a more impressionistic or sketchy style, but there's an unfortunate combination of perfectionism and not being able to see the wood for the trees in me which makes that difficult. Speaking of trees, you should see me trying to draw one, it doesn't end well LOL
Downloading more ram(wolf)! This is a very late commission result and yeah, I definitely feel bad about that in particular. But I don't feel bad about how next level this is for how detailed it is and how far I pushed my digital art skills! It's one of my first and few detailed background attempts. Hope you all like it! (Please don't actually try to download more RAM)
And it took around an hour, the fastest I've gone from blank canvas to completed piece in probably ever. Needless to say it's very messy when you look beyond the surface level, but I think it works even though going against typical advice.
This is a commission I took from a friend of a friend! I can see mistakes in it these days, but it's still one of the better and more refined, completed pieces I've made!
So I've read the CoC Content Warning policy in the announcements community and wanted to make sure of something to avoid making a mistake in my first post. In 5.1.1, there is: >Any NSFW content, including real or artistic (digital or otherwise), must be behind a content warning message. NSFW content includes, but is not limited to: nudity, sex, kink, and the discussion of such.
To be absolutely clear, should furry nudity absent of any, ahem, "parts" on display be tagged NSFW?
foxide @pawb.social Professional .NET dev (VS Code), amateur furry artist (Paint.NET) and IDM/braindance producer (OpenMPT)