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We swiped this bit from Cartoon Brew, since they put it so well: “The Hollywood Reporter is reporting about Universal Pictures new plans to revive Walter Lantz’ classic cartoon star Woody Woodpecker in a CG feature film.  Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, Hop, and The Lorax) is now developing the film with Blades of Glory co-writers John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, who are planning to ‘modernize the character for contemporary audiences’. Altschuler and Krinsky were exec producers and writers on Fox’s King of the Hill and currently on MTV’s Beavis and Butt-head.” Should classic cartoon fans rejoice or shudder? Stay tooned and we’ll find out!

image c. 2011 Cartoon Brew

A couple months ago I really got into drawing. I'm really aspiring to be a decent furry artist. But I'm really crappy right now.

I try to practice every day, drawing furry and non-furry things, but I can never exactly seem to put what I see in my head onto a piece of paper or a computer screen. I can't even draw what I see very well; looking at a chair and trying to put it onto a piece of paper holds horrible results for me.

Should I take basic art classes or something, just to improve my overall drawing skills, rather than going through "how to draw furry ears, how to draw paws, how to draw muzzles, etc.?" Or does practice just make perfect? (I feel like I actually need guidance on how to actually draw...trying to do something over and over again usually doesn't work unless you have an idea of how to do it.)

I posted this here rather than in /r/drawing since I'm sure more people here will have more knowledge in drawing anthros and such than those in the drawing subreddit.

I'd just like some tips on how to draw, I guess.

Thanks :3

EDIT: If anyone's looking to see things that I've drawn, whether out of curiosity or for critiquing me, here's a couple things that I'm not too embarrassed of. I know they're basic, but that's about all I can do. :\

Headshot of some sort of canine wearing a helmet - (this is before I started drawing on actual paper) This started out as a doodle line somewhere on the page, and turned into a helmet after I curved it. I decided to add some ears and what is sort of a snout, and eyes.

A non-furry sketchy thing of a cottage in a field - Maybe someone can help me with proportions or something, because I had a horrible time signifying that that's definitely grass (those things that look like birds on the ground? Yeah, those are tufts of grass). The grass at the bottom of the drawing is supposed to be up-close to the viewer, as if their eyes are just looking over some of the grass. ...bleh.

(Added 11/19/2011) Rigby and Mordecai from Regular Show - I drew both of these by looking off a picture of each of them (here and here). I think they turned out pretty good. Rigby's legs were the worst part of him; they still don't look right. His tail's a little stiff, too. I totally forgot about Mordecai's tail feathers...I may have to add those in later.

(Added 11/20/2011) Kovu from The Lion King II - Again, drawn by looking off a picture (here).

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I've noticed that out of the forty bazillion furry artists, it seems hard to track down prints/posters from anyone. It kinda makes sense, since a lot of furry art = dicks and vag, but for those of us interested in art focused on being actual art that might also be anthro/furry/whatever and might look good on a bedroom wall or something, what would be a good resource to look at? Any artist recommendations?

tl;dr Prints/posters, especially G-rated, where to look?

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I Just had this idea right now. We should all get together and place all the important Furry artwork, stories, books, music, and photographs in box and bury it in the ground. We uncover it in another 31 Years (Since it's been 31 years since September 1st 1980, the beginning of the Furry Fandom) so when we are all grey muzzles we can reflect back on how the Fandom was when we were young and how it changed. What do you think?

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The game by Nexon, pretty fun, though I don't have anyone to play with. My username is TehSofaWolf, if anyone else plays we should make a /r/furry clan :D

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 Another new playable character has been announced for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, or Sly Cooper: TiT for short...though that seems inappropriate...anyways!

Part of playing the new Sly Cooper game is getting to explore and learn about the part of the Sly Cooper lore the new ancestor is in. Glen Egan, President of Sanzaru Games, explains:

"The first ancestor we want to show off is Rioichi Cooper, the master of the Ninja Spire Landing! We were introduced to him back in the original Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus and learned about his cool Ninja ability. Now, when you get to play as Rioichi, you will see how much more powerful the original master’s techniques are. For instance, by focusing his energy Rioichi can execute his Leaping Dragon Technique and span great distances between spires."

More pictures of him in action in the full article!

I'm what you'd call a closet fur. I keep my interests to myself and only a handful of my close friends know (besides the internet friends, but there's only a handful of them near me, so they don't count.)

My question to you, /r/furry, is are you open or closed about this whole love of the fuzz? I just wanna know why or why not. It intrigues me. o.o

edit it's not a sheathing question, sorry kids. XD

edit part 2 really great discussion. I feel a little better, I think? Definitely got myself some new perspectives.

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So! This is how this works, I'll write the first part, then someone else will write the next part, so on and so forth, till we have an epic story.

The Beginning: Devon woke up to the smell of bacon filling his nose. Sitting up in his bed, his tail wagged back and forth happily. "I love it when they cook in the morning!" But first, he would have to get dressed for the day.

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Everyone's favorite theiving raccoon will be available in a new format this month with the release of The Sly Collection on PSN. The three games will be available though PSN on November 29, Sanzaru Games president Glen Egan announced today. The digitally distributed version includes everything that was in the retail title, including support for Trophies and stereoscopic 3D.

The collection can be purchased as a bundle on PSN for $29.99, or as individual games for $9.99 each.

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Found myself wondering if there was a furry subreddit. Of course there is. Then I saw that the upvote/downvote buttons are pawprints and I'm pretty sure I suffered some sort of stroke or mild neurovascular attack of some sort. Also I think I may be the 2,500th subscriber. Cheers.

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For many, perhaps most, it’s easy to envision furry as being made up in large part of gay males.  Some evidence bears this out, even; results from the Furry Survey suggests that a majority of furry is indeed male, though the sexual orientation side of things suggests a different story, which is still, of course, far and above what’s considered standard in western society.  The point of interest comes in the way gender and sexuality are explored strictly within the context of furry, whether through art or through text, particularly on the Internet.

I, admittedly, grew into the fandom with a similar mindset, expecting that it would be a warm and welcoming place for a young gay (as I identified at the time; things have since shifted) man, and I certainly wasn’t disappointed.  There was a very welcoming, bordering on celebratory, attitude towards non-heterosexual orientations, and there was certainly no shortage of guys around to fit into that niche.  I came from a pretty standard family as far as gay kids from upper-middle class liberal America go, and even I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of acceptance and testosterone flowing around within the fandom.  It definitely fit in well with my burgeoning sexuality, in that I had a lot of supportive people surrounding me and, to put it bluntly, a lot of choices for the targets of my affection.  Even today, I’m surprised at how large a part sexual orientation plays in those that I meet, to an embarrassing point, in some.

More surprising than the gay men, however, was the women I met.  Specifically, the discrepancies in gender ratios online versus that which I heard about and encountered at conventions, meets, and in person in general.  This wasn’t some sort of taboo phenomenon, either.  Some openly joked about how males on MUCKs were males, and females on MUCKs were probably males too.  Others who were a different gender online from in person treated it as an open secret and joked about it often.  Even those who didn’t joke about it weren’t coy about differentiating between player and character when talking online.

I’m sure that there as many, if not more, reasons for someone to have a character of a different gender from their player online as their are people who actually do that.  In fact, there almost certainly are a good deal more reasons for someone to do that than there are people who do that, just due to the fact that people change over time.

Here now, I’ve been playing coy, and that’s probably not a good thing for writers to do.  I know that this is the case because, in eleven years of being around within the fandom now, I’ve done my own fair share of playing around with gender and talking with those who do similar online, and I think I definitively state that there are several reasons for doing so.  They can be divided into needs and wants: those things that are biological or psychological imperatives and those things that are more desires than must haves.

Topping the list of wants is likely the desire for heterosexual interaction – not necessarily just in the realm of sex, either.  In a predominately male social group where sexual orientation is divided up fairly evenly, people have found a way to increase the amount of females available for this interaction through role play and art.  When it comes to sex on the Internet, it’s then easier for people to find partners even if they’re playing the female role in the act. This has surely led to more than a few instances of relationships that have started based on this interaction and then failed due to that not actually being the case in real life.

Along with this is the same concept of exploration that is almost stereotypical in society at large, where gender and sexual orientation are balanced differently.  Some players who identify as primarily homosexual may spend sometime playing with or as female characters as a means of experimenting more with a new experience.  For some, it’s simply testing the waters, for others more of a kink type thing, something to indulge in that’s not quite the norm.  In line with that, the Internet has certainly engendered increased sexual liberation, and some may find themselves exploring broader and broader areas of interest as time goes on, and playing as a female character may just be another way to branch out and have fun.

This ties a little into the separation between character and self.  In these instances, the female character’s player likely retains a fairly solid sense of male gender, as opposed to the instance where the difference between player and character sex is driven more by a need. The net has definitely brought around several benefits, and the layer of anonymity inherent in interactions provides a unique outlet for gender dysphoria; that is, some will undoubtedly play characters of a different gender from themselves because that gender will more closely match the gender that they feel.

As a bit of an aside, it should be noted that there’s a difference between gender and sex, in this context.  Sex is fairly easily defined as the biological make-up of the body, whether male, female, or intersex.  Gender is a little tougher to pin down.  It can be seen as a psychological thing, as in whether or not one feels comfortable or not (dysphoric) with one’s given sex.  It can also be taken in a sociological context, as several feelings in regard to gender have to do with how one is perceived by others and what societal roles they fit into.  While western society is heteronormative, gender can, like sexual orientation, be interpreted as a continuous scale from one extreme (totally masculine) to the other (totally feminine), meaning that these perceptions and roles can apply to portions of a person’s life rather than simply the entirety.

Gender identity is always a sticky issue to get around, as it doesn’t have quite the recognition that sexual orientation has, and thus has less support behind it, both from medicine and psychology, as well as society at large.  Many don’t understand the issues surrounding gender, and it’s difficult to comprehend what exactly is involved when gender and sex don’t match up.  Despite my own experiences with being in a relationship with a transgender person, I didn’t quite understand things until only rather recently.

The reason I’m writing about this at all, and still having a hard time not being coy or dancing around the issue is that it’s difficult for me to speak about openly.  That I have any problems at all with my own gender identity was very difficult for me to admit to myself and is harder still to admit to anyone else.  This is the first time I’ve mentioned it to anyone besides my partner and one or two close friends, actually, and it worries me that I’m doing so in so public a fashion, but it is pertinent.  As with sexual orientation and coming out, it’s the type of thing one fears losing friends and family over, and with myself, it led to a period of depression earlier this year lasting several weeks.

The reason I even bring it up, though, is simply to make the point even more clear on the importance of gender within furry, the fandom which is so welcoming of those within it that the answers pertaining to sexual orientation in the furry survey suggest a truly equal distribution of the sexual orientation spectrum (this in comparison to the oft-quoted 10% thrown around in reference to homosexuality in western civilization at large).  The fact that one can create a character with which they strongly identify in terms of gender and sex online can be an important psychological outlet.  I can say first-hand that the discomfort felt during sex when one’s gender and sex don’t line up is intense and, when your sexual partner is your significant other, deeply upsetting.

Interactions online blur the line between the two socially accepted genders even further, as it introduces the possibility of playing out roles that even more closely match one’s gender than society – or biology, for that matter – will allow.  To pull some examples from recent art that’s been floating around, if one identifies as mostly masculine with some female attributes, one’s character could be a mostly male hermaphrodite, or, if even less masculinity feels right, a (and I feel the need to prefix this with my personal dislike of the term) ‘cunt-boy’.  The whole spectrum of gender can be expressed in your character with that layer of anonymity the Internet provides, including even lack of gender or inherently hermaphroditic species such as chakats.

The whole idea of mixed genders within the fandom wasn’t something that I ran into until I had been exploring furry for a few years.  I didn’t really understand them or people’s reaction to them for quite a while.  The whole concept seems to be fairly divisive, with people taking either a firm stance against or for the whole concept.  On one hand, I’ve heard mixed genders of different sorts described positively as “more fun, since you can stack them so many ways” and negatively as “guys just wanting to play with boobs and dick at the same time”.  I certainly can’t speak for everyone involved and don’t care to try and change anyone’s mind, but my own opinion is decidedly positive: if the character fits the gender, excellent!  If it really is just about sex and playing Tetris with warm bodies, well, sex is good too.

Furry is very much a sexual subculture, when taken as a whole (though not perhaps as much as people think).  It’s not surprising, then, that gender plays so large a role within the fandom, both online and off.  It is an integral part of sexuality.  If the fandom is so sexually liberal as compared to the world it inhabits, yet is a subset of that world, it really makes me wonder how much of this is going on within humanity as a whole.  Are we all so evenly distributed in terms of sexual orientation, and the bipolarity of western society just prevents that from being expressed?  Are issues of gender versus sex more prevalent than it appears?  And, with a few exceptions, are we really as on our own as it seems when it comes to mixing biological sex in one body?  Hardly questions for a dumb blog on furries to answer, but interesting all the same.

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