Furry art

What's Furry art, you ask? Typically, it's anthropomorphic art depicting humanised animals, and usually looks something like my anthro muntjac below. However I also enjoy depicting nonmorphic ('real') animal forms.

Note: this page hasn't been updated for a long time. I haven't stopped drawing, although my pace has slowed a little because of my OCD. I no longer have a working scanner, so updates are unlikely until I get one.

Name	Date	Thumbnail	Comments
Crowstellation (Corvus corone stellari)	2006		A sketch in Paint Shop Pro.
Morphic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)	27/01/2005		This is kind of a self-portrait - how I might look in the Winds of Change universe. It doesn't really look like me, but those are the clothes I habitually wear.
Matrix horse (Equus caballus)	05/03/2004		Another attempt at inking + digital colouring. I quite like this one. I can't actually remember what film the jumping-out-sideways-whilst-firing-two-guns-at-something move comes from, but it seems Matrixy to me.
Bee lady (Apis mellifera)	22/02/2004		One of my more bizarre morphs, but I'm pleased with this one. I've been studying honeybees a fair bit to do the Natural Origins of Apidya page. Drawn in pencil first, with yellow shading airbrushed in using Paint Shop Pro.
Anthro muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)	17/02/2004		A muntjac, for the less animal-savvy, is a kind of deer. Muntjac hold a special place in my heart because there was a small population of them on my university campus. As deer go, they're a small and primitive species. They have huge glands on their faces, they carry a sharp pair of fangs, and their antlers are small but grow out from long pedicles. They're kind of ugly, but it's a beautiful kind of ugliness. As the picture goes... I'm quite pleased with it. This is the best deermorph I've drawn yet.
Skoot (Mephulica matra)	08/02/2004		I've been dabbling in pen-and-ink for a while, and this is my first attempt at an inked picture. That is, the outline was inked, and the colouring and shading was rather hurriedly done in Paint Shop Pro. I don't usually draw gryphons, but the coot-skunk combination felt so perfect that I couldn't resist.
Railgun (Oryctolagus cuniculus; Weapon electromagneti; Rallus aquaticus)	22/01/2004		Quake meets The Matrix meets Watership Down meets an awful bird pun. This one didn't scan very well.
Anthro springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)	05/01/2004		As well as deer, I also like antelopes. This is a springbokmorph in the Winds of Change style. In keeping with that universe, I tried to give it clothing tailored for a human, that would therefore be ill-fitting on a springbok. For this picture I tried a new technique - the drawing was done in pencil first, scanned in, and then coloured with the mouse in Paint Shop Pro. You can see the uncoloured drawing here.
Anthro red deer (Cervus elaphus)	31/12/2003		I like deer, as you may have guessed. This is my third attempt to draw an anthropomorphic deer; a red deer this time.
Armoured Corvid Prototype (Corvus corax)	31/12/2003		This was actually drawn before the Armoured corvid, hence the Prototype designation. While it arguably looks better, I didn't like the design.
Robin (Erithacus rubecula)	17/12/2003		This one was a request from my mother, who wanted me to draw something for a Christmas card sort of thing. And since I'm hopelessly unoriginal, I just drew a typically traditional robin-sitting-on-some-thorns-in-front-of-a-stone-wall sort of thing. I hereby apologise to robinkind for using their species as tools of religious propaganda. Robins are cool by their own merits, not because of some esoteric Christian myth.
Sparrowmorph 2 (Passer domesticus)	17/12/2003		Supposed to be the same sparrowmorph as below, but the leg anatomy doesn't look realistically morphic.
Sparrowmorph (Passer domesticus)	04/12/2003		This was an attempt at a Winds of Change style birdmorph. It didn't look as good on paper - I couldn't get any really nice dark tones with my pencils. So I cheated by artificially darkening it in Paint Shop Pro.
Armoured corvid (Corvus corax)	27/11/2003		I've been playing Armored Core to death lately, so I just couldn't resist this. The perspective and metallic shading could use some work. (For those familiar with the game: yes, it is indeed a raven.)
Flying squirrel (Glaucomys anthropomorphi)	21/10/2003		A slightly anthropomorphised flying squirrel. It's not really an accurate Glaucomys, because all I really did was visualise a generic tree squirrel and then give it a flight membrane and a flat tail. (The real Glaucomys flying squirrels are far, far, cuter.)
Palmcockatoo-tigerdracogryph (Proboscifelis atterrimigridraco)	08/10/2003		Before you wonder what I've been drinking... the design of this creature can be credited to/blamed on Saoirse, a fellow feathery on Avians.net (and an excellent artist, so go look at her work). She roleplays a psittadracogryph, which is a gryphonic combination of parrot, cat and dragon. One day she made a meme that randomly generates different psittadracogryph mixes for people, and I couldn't resist drawing the one I got.
Owl profile (Bubo africanus)	20/09/2003		It's been a while, but here's another pic - again digital, and again of Hawthorn. This is just a rough attempt to visualise him from the side as well as the front (so rough that you can overlook the horribly misproportioned wings...). In my study of the Spotted Eagle Owl, I've found that I've been drawing the face much too large - it should be a tight facial disc as represented here.
Owl with lightsabre (Bubo africanus jedi)	08/08/2003		Another digital pic done in Paint Shop Pro.
Owl-Type (Bubo africanus)	05/08/2003		Something a little different. I've been dabbling in Paint Shop Pro lately. Although drawing with the mouse is somewhat more difficult than with a pencil, the digital medium is far more versatile, and gives me access to tools like floodfills and airbrushes. The picture is of Hawthorn, doing an R-Type/anime style energy buildup. Naturally.
Shiny black wasp (Vespula reflectivus)	22/07/2003		This drawing has been artificially darkened in Paint Shop Pro - the original was sort of dark greyish. An Apidya-inspired experiment in metallic shading.
The Matrix Has Roo (Projectyl dangerus; Macropus rufus)	15/07/2003		As often happens, this started off as something and ended up as something else. I was trying to sketch an anthro-kangaroo, but I started the legs too near the edge of the paper to fit a normally-posed upper body in. So, I decided to do a Matrix-style Bullet Time pose. Alternatively, this could well be a scene in Winds of Change, as Time Control is a known Power.
Phoenix dragon (Pyroneus draconis)	13/07/2003		A rather clichéd phoenix/dragon sort of thing. It started off as an attempt to draw a random dragon-bird type thing, but I decided to give it phoenix colouring.
Klein Swan II (Cygnus mobius duplicatus)	13/07/2003		Unfortunately I'm back on the crap scanner. This is another Klein swan, a little more colourful than the previous one.
Hawthorn (Bubo africanus; Crataegus monogyna; Oryctolagus cuniculus)	17/05/2003		My first attempt at a full-colour picture with scenery and everything. This is a portrait of my two Furry personae, both of whom go by the name of Hawthorn.
Swordfighting rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)	17/05/2003		This was just a quick, spontaneous drawing, so I didn't put much thought into the anatomy and just gave it basic human-style arms and legs. I don't actually like that kind of anthro-style. I prefer forms to be at least 'semi-anthro', where there is some indication of animal anatomy.
Brown rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)	03/05/2003		Yet another rabbit. You'd think I'd actually be better at drawing them by now, wouldn't you? Anyway, this is the first one I've done in colour. It's brown.
Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)	01/05/2003		It's not furry or feathery, it's... er... amphy! I've always admired salamanders (as far as amphibians go, they rock), but it's only recently that I've done any real study of them. This is the first time I've used coloured pencils since, ooh, my jay pic, a fair while ago, which was rather crap and poorly scanned. Hopefully this one's better.
Tawny owl (Strix aluco)	27/04/2003		A tawny owl, sitting in a tree. My favourite British owl species. I've seen one, too.
Shadowbunny (Oryctolagus umbriferus)	18/04/2003		An Easter special picture. This is a cross between a rabbit, and the ubercool Shadow vessels of Babylon 5...
Scottish deer (Cervus kiltus)	08/04/2003		My first real attempt at typical Furry-anthro-style. Heavily inspired by reading too much Winds of Change.
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)	14/03/2003		A peregrine falcon performing some odd aerial manoeuvre.
Blackberry's dark secret (Oryctolagus cuniculus)	31/01/2003		A silly picture, inspired by Loganberry's question of why Blackberry (from Watership Down) has black-tipped ears, a feature of hares but not of wild rabbits.
Osprey with fish (Pandion haliaetus; Pisceus unfortunata)	30/12/2002		My first attempt at an osprey. And a fish, for that matter. This one didn't come out too well.
Ravenseal (Pinnipedicorax aquaticus)	28/12/2002		This started out as a sketch of a raven, but I got the head all wrong. Rather than scrap it, I decided to be silly and make it a corvid sealgryph.
Owl imitating Kosh (Bubo africanus vorlon)	27/11/2002		A spotted eagle owl yet again, in an imitation of Kosh, the Vorlon ambassador to Babylon 5.
Crouching rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)	25/11/2002		A side view of a rabbit. In spite of my admiration for rabbits, I find them astonishingly difficult to draw.
Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)	03/11/2002		A front view of a rabbit.
Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)	02/11/2002		Well, as red as a red squirrel gets in greyscale, anyway. According to some, this is a "zombie squirrel".
Be very afraid? (Bubo africanus)	19/10/2002		A spotted eagle owl again. Not a very good one, this, but I was trying to do the cool owl threat-posture.
Raven (Corvus corax)	03/10/2002		My first attempt at a raven, and at those glossy corvid highlights. The feet are way too small.
Owl and Klein bottle (Bubo africanus; Surfus nonorientabil)	01/10/2002		More Klein bottle addiction. I forget the exact topological definition of a Klein bottle, but it's like a Möbius strip, only it's a surface. I think. It can only truly exist in four dimensions - as you can see in the drawing, the neck of the bottle has to intersect the body, which is cheating (mathematicians call this a three-dimensional immersion of the real thing). In four dimensions the Klein bottle is a continuous surface with no self-intersections. It's quite lovely. This picture was also a good excuse to draw my owl character from the back.
Klein swan (Cygnus mobius)	01/10/2002		At this point in 2002 I got addicted to Klein bottles and kept drawing them. The Klein swan sort of followed naturally.
European jay (Garrulus glandarius)	15/09/2002		Regardless of my crappy rendering, this is a delightful bird. My first attempt with coloured pencils.
Spotted eagle owl (Bubo africanus)	12/09/2002		An early portrait of a spotted eagle owl, the bird that I roleplay on Avians.net.
Owl in a fursuit (Bubo africanus bunisutus)	30/08/2002		A silly picture.
Spotted eagle owl (Bubo africanus)	18/08/2002		This is here partly for comedy value, and also to hopefully inspire anyone else who believes they don't possess any innate artistic skill. This was my first 'proper' attempt at drawing.

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