#i was afraid people would find Salami weird looking so I'm jumping on this opportunity to overexplain it

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Since @thehoneybunny1 pointed it out

i wanna reply in depth imma just reblog and talk about how i make these animal collections

I just google the animal, in this case 'Stoat', and uaually i have to add 'animal' or even 'animal poses' to actually get some different angles on the animal and ofc no brands that may be named after the animal or even just logos or cartoon versions (that was a problem with fox and owl and other more "mainstream" animals)

Then i first scroll through the pics for a bit to get a feel for what kind of movements and poses this animal does. Then finally i pic a few that aren't too similar but still all show off the parts of the animal that i think are most interesting/recognizable/fun to draw

In the case of the salami stoat, i thought a more curled up pose would fit well on the page and was still missing from the line up of poses so i used this ref

Despite this pose lacking good visibility of the very recognizable white belly patch i just couldn't say no to this cute lil guy.

And in my scrolling i found some pics of stoats changing from their brown summar coat to their white winter coat, which can sometimes look like the white fur is growing up into the brown.

It's a fun visual imo and it solved my issue with wanting more of the fun, red, inside texture of the salami being visible on the curled up little Meat Lands stoat so tada!

That's how we got to Salami looking a little out of whack.

Sorry if my first explanation in the og post wasn't clear enough but now i at least had an excuse to talk a bit about my process for choosing references which i highly enjoyed and rambled waaaaay too much about.

[I kept the titles the pics have on google so you can easily find them for yourself if you wanna]

To celebrate Burrow's End starting "today" (not in my timezone it doesn't) i Had to draw Stoats from all over Calorum

I tried to pick looong foods for each of them, but the Toast Stoat was too funny of a pun to me to not pick it

The colourations for all of them were also chosen specifically to adhere to the stoat fur pattern: brown fur, white belly, black tail tip. Dairy Islands and Meatlands are the only exceptions to that rule.

String Cheese just doesn't have a darker version, so I had to fluff up the tail to make it stand out; and it's permanently in its winter coat (all white irl).

Salami just is lighter on the outside than the inside, so while the rest followed the lighter belly - darker back scheme the Meat Lands stoat is the inverse. To still show off the fun red colouration it has on its belly all year round, the one I drew is shedding into its winter coat.

All of them have funky claws which are based on the knifes used to cut their specific food group with, so they can hunt more expertly

Want more calorum fauna? I recommend this post of mine or just looking at that tag