How to Draw Manga Furries: The Complete Guide to Anthropomorphic Fantasy Characters (750 illustrations)

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Furries usually have a vast imagination, and many of them express it through their artistic skills. Creating art is the easiest way to make a furry character real and visible to other people. Drawing your fursona and using it as an avatar on social media can let you become that character and be seen as one by others. Role-playing is also easier when you have a "photo" of your character to show other players. I'm a Polish artist with a great passion for creating new things—whether by drawing, digital painting, or photo manipulation. Later, combine both sets of proportions into one, focusing on functionality as well as the look. Animal legs look the way they look not because this is cute, but because they are optimal for quadrupedal motion. Similarly, the uncommon structure of human legs comes directly from their function—creating an upright position and allowing for bipedal movement. A bipedal fox-man, therefore, can't just be a fox standing on its hind legs—they must be modified to look more human-like. And that's just one of many things you need to consider when creating a body structure for your furry! Humans have evolved many adaptations for upright locomotion, and lions for quadrupedal locomotion. If your lion-man is supposed to walk on two legs, he can't do it while still looking like a lion! Besides the obvious functionality of this solution, anthropomorphic characters simply have aesthetic value to many people. There are only so many ways to make a human beautiful, while you can design a thousand amazing bird-men based on various species. Just like manga characters, anthros can be made completely fantastic and detached from reality in their look, which lets the artist get extremely creative while keeping the story grounded in reality. Simply thinking of various anthros can be quite inspiring, too—what would a cheetah-man look like? Goggly Cheetah by 0laffson

Yagiyama is a freelance illustrator who designs and draws characters--mostly men and monsters--for play-by-web and social games. Finally, when your character has a full, roughly sketched body, you can start adding details to it. Does it have hands or paws? What do its feet look like? What does it wear, what clothes, what jewelry? This is the most fun part about designing a character, but there still should be nothing random about it. Even the details should be functional! You can also simply attach an animal head to a human body. However, you lose many opportunities for an interesting design this way, because while it technically can be called an anthro, it doesn't look plausible, which kills the immersion (the "sewn" parts drag your attention away from the personality of the character). Is it a rabbit? Is it a woman? Your brain has a hard time interpreting such a hybrid as one creature. it transform into one later? The degree of animal-like transformation and the affected body parts alter dependingCharacters based on cats, dogs, wolves, foxes, goats, birds, whales, sharks, crocodiles, dragons—and more! When trying to draw furries, the first wall that people hit is the muzzle (see Step 2 below). As the

This curious trait of the human mind has allowed us to create stories with non-human characters, to make them more interesting and to make their meaning clearer, especially for children. Non-human characters make the story obviously untrue, so that it can't be confused with real events, but it just makes the deeper truth hidden in them stand out more. Original depiction of a fictional anthropomorphic rabbit from the first chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandchanged, the overall look alters significantly. Choose the eye shape you think best fits the worldview of your drawing.