#enjoy them and their fursonas

[toaster-fire-art]

my peerless readthrough is definitly going. In book 4 and i'm a little invested, enough for this <3

[bittybatarts]

been in a ref mood. I guess I can have a humanoid sona too, sometimes. They're not just human though, that'd be boring.

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

Cursed Chimera

[fleouriarts]

mini sketchbook dump. lowkey forgot this thing existed until last week

descriptions/refs and such below

1. based on one of the pics i took w hivemind, i told them to do cute poses and riley decided to just go O__O at the camera??? hes so silly <3

2. another livemind thing but this time it's from the video i took of them slow dancing. if i ever say no to a hivemind gay moment... call the cops my identity has been stolen for sure

3. finally drew one of my favorite little hivemind moments EVER oh my god they are so cute. literally me and who

4. this is just a cute pic of riley that i'd drawn literally right when i started doing hivemind fanart so i thought i'd redraw it. adding both the ref pic and my drawing from june 2023 so you can gawk at how much more angular my style has gotten

5. my dearest hex aka @gaydonweaver sent me this old pic of graydon (from a 2018 video i think) and i was enamored with his fluffy hair so i had to draw it

5. another one of my favorite cute hivemind moments... real compilationheads will recognize this as the thumbnail for 'hivemind juicy kissable boyfriend moments' which i remember riley being caught watching on stream 😭 im never gonna forget that i think its so fucking funny

also the section under the cut is a SAFE SPACE so here's some silly and kinda embarrassing sona doodles i did around these

[gurenkurosen]

posting this now as a wip so i dont forget about it for another month =w=;;

[justablah56]

Hi Aether!! :D

new follower here so any chance you could catch me up to speed with your OCs? They sound cool!! Can be as in-depth as you like or as vague of a summary!! I just wanna hear about them!!

ehehhehfndk hiiiiii !! tbh there's not a whole lot of like . lore or anything for my ocs lmao , but anywayyyyys , it's really just Luca and Mitch , Luca my pretty boy rabbit and his partner Mitch my handsome butch sheep <3 honestly the only stuff I've got abt them is they are in beautiful t4t love <3

[blyszczopies]

using one of the goofiest photos of pusia as a reference image

[detective-ws]

hey @talkingteardrop i drew your fursona in a kinda smiling friends inspired way :)

drawn from memory so it might not be very accurate sorry 😅

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

hi. there is something I've been meaning to ask hope you could help me with. so how to draw a character (human) into a certain animal? like what you do in bunwell. there are some characters I want to give them what if they were a dog but like that. I don't really know where to look or where to start so I was hoping you can give me a tip or guide me where to look?

ty

Ooh, anthro question, interesting!

So the first thing to do is fine-tune your animal choice to a species level, to the degree that the animal both has some visual similarities to the human (think sharpness of features, length of hair, colouring) and personality associations (like labrador retriever for a really loyal, good-natured person, or a maltese poodle for someone who can be quite prissy and temperamental).

If you don't have any experience drawing anthro, I'd recommend studying some classic styles to get an idea of what sort of stylisation you want to do, such as Disney's Robin Hood for a more realistic set of features, or for something cartoonier, try Warner Brother's Road Rovers or Jim Henson's Dog City (the animated segments, but the puppets can be helpful too). Those are specifically useful for diverse dog anthro references.

Once you've chosen your species, there's the trickiest part: creating an ungodly fusion of human and beast! >:o If you want to keep human hair the same as the source, you'll want to use animal ears, but sometimes you can merge the animal's ears with the human hair, such as with a cocker spaniel whose ears lie in a similar way; this allows you to keep the shape of their heads quite close to the human's. Another big important choice is how much of a snout you want the anthro to have: an advantage of shortening the snout is that your face can look more human but with a few animal features, but that does take away from the recognisability of the species, and can come off as a lack of dedication to the concept. If a person has sharp features, embrace a pointier snout!

In the end, though, don't feel too hemmed in by the breed you've chosen, because this is stylisation. For instance, if you wanted to draw Laura DeMille as a rough collie anthro, because of their Scottish ancestry and their ample, long fur, but prefer the colouring and curly ears of a boykin spaniel, go ahead and say you're anthro is a mix of both! (This can be a particularly fun technique if the person you're anthroing is of mixed heritage, and you can research breeds for both sides) It's worth noting that there is a particularly maligned form of anthro where vastly different animals -- such as a fox and eagle -- are mixed in order to gain a specific set of features, for an essentially impossible species. But the degree to which the anti-science of this matters to you relies on how much the world you're creating follows specific biological rules that mirror our own (eg. wolves and domestic dogs can breed, snakes and frogs cannot). For an example of a fantasy series that threw all that out the window for a truly charming cast of characters, check out Disney's The Wuzzles (thereby wrapping up my tendency of recommending show that were on in my childhood), which includes Bumblelion (a bee and lion mix), Butterbear (a bear and butterfly) and Rhinokey (a rhinosaurus and monkey).

Traditionally, anthro characters are clothed, but artists tend to be split on how much human modesty concerns should apply to them: for instance, many (usually male) anthro characters wear only a tshirt or other item, leaving their more animal-shaped hindquarters and tail exposed. This can be particularly useful for characters whose bodies could make tailoring clothing difficult. It's also an issue of some variation whether female characters should have human secondary sex characteristic (breasts and wide hips) or just retain a similar body shape to their animal aspect, but bipedal. Many artists deal with the latter issue by using some kind of fur-ruff at the chest to mimic a female human silhouette without adding breasts (and thereby suggesting that their mammaries go down their stomachs, like in regular dogs, etc).

Good luck with your designing, and feel free to tag me in your sketches! :D I'm always interested in seeing how artists choose to do their anthros.

[bellasdragons]

I assume your favorite kickstarter familiar is skycat

Surprisingly(?) no - it's actually the Cog Frog. The *rivet rivet* flavour text gets me every time x'D

[girlboyburger]

i can't draw today because my bones hurt so here's a doodle of basil and it's husband from a few days ago instead

[shopcat]

i'm going to be real thinking about the fursonas of slash assigning an anthro design to a character is really really fun and if ur interested in character design/visdev and working with shape language i highly recommend it. esp cartoon/already stylised art / translating it into your "style" it's really fun matching features and such to the established design and is a good way to flex the muscle of translating things into how YOU would design this character as well as the design muscle in general etc... (without being weird of course sometimes people are weird for sure). it's also a fun exercise to do for non cartoon/fanart things ofc and makes me feel like you know when people look like their pets. turns you into an animal. anyway it's fun recommend

[delightfuldevin]

I need to make a bear fursona

[fleouriarts]

oh my god i keep forgetting i havent posted these. eden has been added to the Hivemind Furry Cinematic Universe as a stoat

[bbeelzemon]

so... 🐗 fursonas, huh?

[dabin]

terrible week to be an ateez, piwon, riize, or txt enjoyer on twt 😒