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davidfoxfire — Scarlet PI--Strip 48
Published: 2005-08-13 05:07:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 3123; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 174
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Ain't it like me? Normal DA artists pine away at the contraversy that Furry Fandom paints them as. Me? I address it head on.Anyone want to tell me any of the horror stories they gotten or heard of?
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At least Jim isn't a HeadSwappa like me XD
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... That guy's gonna shoot her because she's a furry?
That's a bit... er... extreme.
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*kills DA* i love this story,... and deviantart decided to be maen and not tell me about your updates,.. i be so sorry this is late XD
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Well, DA is in the process of updating their programs and all that. It happens.
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may i interject, that while the "controversy" may or may not exist, there are a few people who go all the way and become what we draw, or fantisize about.
the other day i was watching tv, and there was this guy who not only had his entire body tattoed like a cat (not unusual in and of itself) but had a biomechanical tail surgically attached to his body, it really worked, he really used his mind to make it move and look like a real cats tail.
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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
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That was just me freaking out at someone surgically graphing a mechanized tail on their own body. Pay me no mind.
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It's pretty hard to imagine someone pulling a gun on ya just for wearing a fursuit. Geez.
Hardly anybody really cares about furries, even if they do have the wrong ideas about us. We're just harmless wierdos after all.
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Trust me, there's another reason why that gun's there. See next strip
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Hmm.
1) Never use the Shapes brush to draw boobs. It's very obvious, and a perfect circle will not give you a realistic breast. It looks more like she stuffed a pillow inside her shirt than anything.
2) I... have not seen any of the so-called DA furry controversy around. I have several friends who are furries and are on DA, and none of them have complained about anything yet.... Really, the only 'persecution' of the fandom I see online is by the idiots at SomethingAwful/4chan, and nobody with any brains pays any attention to them anyway. And my fursuiting friends haven't ever mentioned having trouble walking around in their fursuits, even in public.
3) I noticed you're using stumps/tortillons to blend your graphite. It's not bad, but the work could use some more gradation in shades from light to dark. Using a stump to blend will darken virtually anything you use it on. I think using shading to indicate a light source and modeling would help make your figures look more 3D and less like paper cutouts. Also, just a bit of modeling on the side views of heads could help as well- I'd be glad to 'redline' and give you a hint on how to help mold Jim's face a bit so it won't be so flat.
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1) I never suspected that to be that obvious, only wanting to make a boob rather bigger than the way I drew it. Next time I see somthing that needs tweaking, I'll use the paint and erase brush in Photoshop. (Knew there was a reason why I bought that tablet.
2) I have heard of several stories about artist submitting a portfolio to a big name company, and have it rejected outright because the portfolio had Furry Art in it, which made the interviewer very queasy as he or she tells of a horrid scene (usually X-Rated) involving Furries. There was a 'Burned Fur' movement in the late 90s becuase of this.
3) Feel free to redline my work and send me enough feedback to improve my work, which is something I have a constant struggle with. At times I wish and when I have time I do attempt to make things more 3-D, but as you can attest with your own lives, there are weeks where you only have a few hours to work on your page before the deadline, and the results show. Yuk!
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I'll bet that the people who have had portfolios 'rejected' by companies did not hear the direct reasons why and are only *assuming* it's some anti-Furry prejudice. It's all bullshit. If Furry artists have anything against going against them, it's that Furry art is of very little use to an animation company and, for most Furries, Furry art is all they DO. They're restricting themselves. A studio wants to see that you can do straight human and animal anatomy, not anthro.
Disney/WB's animation submission guidelines were always very clear on this.
The Burned Furs thing is old. Most people these days honestly don't give a rats about furries and having your characters rant about being OMG!persecuted is getting really boring.
You have a tablet?
*blink* What on earth for?
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I guess it depends on who I ask then, do I? Maybe I shouldn't've worry about this dynamic in the strip. (But still, there may be people who would label freaks at the drop of a hat, and then there's the dreaded 'Michael Jackson' refrence. I was thinking of a more general scope than just furries.)
Good Question. I got the (cheapo Jam Online brand) tablet so I can edit my drawn art. I should use it more often than I do.
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