#my cat fursona is so much simpler

[chaos-potat]

Please draw Old Hob🙏

an attempt

I love him, but I cannot draw anthro very well ;-;

[staticstray]

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I can do lair scenes or backgrounds with or without characters. Starts at $60 for simpler scenes and goes up. Again, just send me a message and we can discuss it!

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[alienpupy]

Ok so i wanted to make a post to highlight how far my fursona has come in terms of design, and how it also showcases my artistic ability improving and reflects, in a way, my relationship to my gender over the past few years.

This is gonna b long and personal so I’m putting it below the cut (plus image descriptions of course, the alt. text function doesn’t allow super long descriptions)

(image description:

A poorly-drawn reference sheet of an anthropomorphic, skinny raccoon, though they look more like a cat that fell in a bucket of beige, green, and purple paint. Their body is the beige-brown colour, and their paws are green, as if they were wearing gloves. Their hair is the same shade, and their tail is striped green and brown. They are wearing a purple t-shirt, green shorts, and a sleeveless black jacket. They have heterochromia, one eye is green, and the other, purple. The colour palette is all over the place and poorly designed. The image is captioned “Mint: raccoon, 5 foot 5, androgynous (I hope)”.

An updated version of the previous reference. The character still looks more like a cat than a raccoon, and the colour palette is still bizarre, but the execution of it is a bit better.

Yet another updated version of this character’s design. This time, they look more like a fox than a cat, the ears have fluff at the tips. the colour palette has much more contrast to it, and it much simpler. The brown is very dark and the green is a very pastel, minty colour. The character is no longer wearing their cloths, though they are present in the image, and instead have a large purple band-aid on their shoulder. It’s still not very good.

The fourth version of this character’s reference. This time, they actually look a little bit like a raccoon, and the contrast has been toned down. The character looks a bit chubbier, too. The image is captioned: “Mint, species: raccoon, Age: ???, Gender: genderfluid/nonbinary, pronouns: they/them/theirs”

The fifth version of the reference sheet. They are even chubbier, and their colours are brighter, though still don’t go very well together. The image is captioned “Mint, genderfluid/genderqueer, like 15-16 probably, raccoon, fat and floofy.”

The sixth version of the character. Their design has changed a lot, and is now a lot more complex. Their gloves are now two-toned, a dark green for the paws themselves, and a lighter green for the forearm and calves. They also now have light green on their belly, like an actual animal, and their hair is longer. The nose is now a dark purple, instead of the black it was on the previous versions. They now also have seven digits on each paw. Their name has also changed, and they are now named Green.

The seventh version of the character. They look almost exactly the same, although they now have a bunch of piercings on their ears and the art is better.

The eight, and current version of the character. The design has now changed to be much more complex, with two more shades of brown to the body, one light and one dark, so the fur looks more natural apart from the green parts. Their “gloves” are now stripy, like their tail, and now the heterochromia has been dropped, their eyes are both purple. They looks really nice in this version.

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I first made my sona when I was just starting to figure myself out, when I had just really come to terms with the fact that I don’t fit in the gender binary, and as you can see, how i labelled my sona reflected that. The “androgynous (I hope)” caption in the first reference i drew of them was really honest, because that was how I wanted (and still want) to be percieved.

Representing myself as a raccoon also allowed me to separate myself from the more feminine cat-sona i had before, and really restart with how i presented and described myself. if you looks at my old posts when i first put these references out there, the language i used to describe them and me really changed over time, and that transition of vocabulary is quite dear to me.

Idk, this is a dumb, long, rambly post but I felt like making it. It’s important to reflect on how you evolve sometimes.

[squishysoltan]

There’s a twitter meme going around about your fursona evolution, twitter sucks so you can only do 4 pics (that don’t even go in the order you put them in) and only a few words. So I wanted to do a better version here with .

Zoltan started out as a combo of my IRL cat and IRL me, since I had no idea how to make a fursona. I just knew I wanted to be a cat lol. He was an orange tabby cat and didn’t really have any story other than “dis is me as a kitty”

After meeting Shippo and joining Second Life, we ended up getting me a brown tabby avatar, since we couldn’t find an orange one that I liked as much as the brown tabby one. It got more anime-esq since I was big into it at the time, gave him a backstory and magic powers and whatnot. With doing that tho, I kinda drifted off from seeing him as me and more as a character I was using to interact with people. This was the one I was for the longest period of time.

When I moved out on my own with Shippo, I was able to be more “free” with my art and stuff, and I decided I wanted to have a more feminine fursona (after years of slowly realizing how much I liked it with my human persona) so I made femmy Zoltan. I made him less anime and more grounded, still gave him a magic power/backstory thing, but switched to a more “dis is me as a kitty” mindset again. This only lasted for a couple years

And now we’re at Soltan. He came to be because of said issue where I didn’t feel Zoltan was ME anymore, also there were issues I had in the past while being Zoltan, so I felt like I just needed to do something different. I decided to give him a simpler backstory just to explain why he looks the way he does, but I’m not focused on it as much as before. He still has magic, so that way I can have him drawn however I’m in the mood for, without having to think of WHY (which was another issue with Zoltan, I was always EHH about doing new stuff with him because I felt I’d have to explain it). And also made him more androgynous so I can do whatever “gender” I want him to look like.  As of now he’s the definitive “dis is me” character.

[gabbu-art]

New fursona because I am way too lazy to draw my old one T__T She just had wayyyy too much happening, lol. So now she's simpler but she's still nice n' minty ☆ Idk what species to call this.... panda-lemur-cat??? LOL