Darkfox's Various Art/Sprite Stuffs

[Darkfox]

Another one with a sad expression. She doesn't have a lot to be happy for, she's a wolf, and reaching wolf adulthood so she has to bail out on the pack or else she'll be taken by a male wolf without having a say in it. She IS a quadruped, but... she has humanoid qualities as you can see, I like to combine qualities like this, quadrupeds that can pose in such a manner and be just as expressive as a human but still not the same as a bipedal humanoid. Body variety.

Her kind is like a primitive beast-human. They don't speak English but can understand it somewhat. And Miki, Yoko's little sister can understand and read it very well.

[Darkfox]

Light Sprite, a mischievous magically born creature with intense power but a small body. Normally does not know she's hurting people and likes to yell "it's our birthday!". She has a Dark Sprite sister.



This one I need to redraw. Ymir is a Kreelee, a small squirrel-like alien race known for their paranoia and fine tuning of mechanical devices. He pilots a mecha and fights with larger races (but has poor piloting skills) and has a scatterbrain gunman named Zig.



Who he doesn't even know is a female Kreelee since they never saw each other prior to being placed inside the Kreelee Avatar.

[DedlellyDeth]

These need more detail on the clothes, I think.

[Darkfox]

I'm redrawing Ymir because I had no idea for clothes at the time.

[Fisherson]

Impresive! now I havean idea of what to use as the base. He he he ^ ^

[Darkfox]

Impresive! now I havean idea of what to use as the base. He he he ^ ^

What do you mean by THAT? XD

[Fisherson]

What do you mean by THAT? XD

You shall see.

[Darkfox]

I made him look a bit too normal sized in the body, but that can just be due to it being poofed out.

[Bluhman]

Pretty nice work here. A lot of these character designs seems pretty well made.
_{Also, I'll admit right here that I'm sort of a closet furry. I mean, I know it's not really highly looked upon, but I really don't mind the phenomenon THAT much, really.}

[Archem]

I've admitted to being tolerant and somewhat appreciative of furry culture. I'm not quite as on-board with you as to call myself a "closet furry", or to refer to myself as any grade of furry, but I have no beef with them, their culture (wait, am I seriously calling it "culture" now?), or the art style. I grew up watching Disney films, after all.

[Darkfox]

Just to make it clear, I am totally against zoophilia. I treat my beast-human characters the same as human characters, only some additional details apply in emotional displays, which I have yet to master. XD

Also I shun general "furry" (what kind of term is that anyways?) culture. They tend to revolve too much around animalistic than human nature. Where I on the other hand focus more on human than animal. Also, many of my characters have a skill for fighting and stuff. So it's not just for show. I rather give mine depth than being an eyeshow.

Anyways, I will never go beyond flirtatious in my sketches. In other words, I intend to stay within the realm of "cute". Though, I will draw more distorted monstrosities in the future. And will draw more humans as well.

I'm also a bit controversial in both realms because I planned a couple beast-human/human romance stories (not sexual mind you, but it does revolve around a human and beast-human falling in love.) I find it more interesting because it is a challenge and a complication filled with obstacles, it's also incredibly rare. This is nothing like those stupid catgirl/human romance stories, this is far more work involved.

Darkfox term explanations:

Beast-human (often shortened to "beast"): Refers to any human character with distinct animal-like features and qualities. This is more relative to the Japanese "kemonobito" (not to be confused with the hentai garbage) where animal-like characters live a dominantly human lifestyle. Popular games like Klonoa and a large variety of Japanese RPGs feature such characters. This is my aim.

[Deathreaper]

Basically, DF is saying that they're creepy because they make it into a really crude fetish. While he just keeps his look on it as cute and he focuses more on the human/sentient aspect than the animal. Since the sentiant aspect of us is what defines us as human beings and all.

I can sum this up in another way. When you see something really disgusting and crude about anything floating on the internet... that's what the "furry" term is the catagory of. And in all honesty seeing any crude image/video of anything isn't pleasent at all. Take 2chicks 1cup as an example. And while in no way scat of any kind (or body fluids in general) could be simplified in an innocent enviroment, anthromorphics since the liking to them is more-so a matter of putting together different traits.

[fruckert]

So... Furry characters are cool, but most people who use them sexually are not?

That's how I see it

And now for my opinion on the matter:
Sometimes anthros just aren't original, or interesting enough for me to like them
This might be due to them being overused, and hard to draw in a way that makes them stand out

These are an exception
As well as those within Sequential Art

[Darkfox]

This is true. Many "anthro" characters just lack any depth or are outlandishly powerful and try too hard to be badass and fail. As with many other character designs. Often this lacks any good explanation as well. There is no compelling story or explanation usually, and are often only described as being a "wolf" or "fox" rather than having a further species definition.

Utter lack of detail in their biographies is all too common. Otherwise it's often just a "whore" character which also lacks purpose. I won't spare my feelings, it pisses me off. Depth is important in a compelling character. They need reason, purpose, passions, and some kind of goal, otherwise they are empty.

[DedlellyDeth]

I have nothing against furries. I'm fine with them, despite not liking furry art. It's a bit of a stereotype of furries to be promiscuous or desiring of sex with anthropomorphic or not animals.