#dinofur

[katkitters]

dinking uuice on your dash 🧃🦕

[dinofur-art]

This post by @whyenn-reader gave me a spark of inspiration, so I did a progression of my art style over the years using my first oc, the titular Dinofur

I could've done like 4+ more stages, but I decided to keep it more straightforward. Old art I used as reference and discussion of the research under the cut!

Okay so I kind of obsessively archive my old art if i can, particularly digital art, so references for these were easy to find for the most part. I should note that Dinofur has always existed in a state of her wings being interchangeable, so I drew her both with and without them in this piece

Mid 2013

This was really easy to reference, as Google photos saved my images from Google+. This was when I was first getting into digital art

Late 2013

This was when I got my first sketchbook and my art really started to explode. I also really started drawing on my iPad in Ibispaint rather than in MSpaint, and it shows. I also really started taking a lot of inspiration from the friends I was making online, particularly my friend Mizu Star

Late 2014

I only have one drawing of Dinofur from this time, which made recreating it difficult, especially considering the way the drawing is shaded. This was the point where her tabby markings transitioned from being white to a darker grey, and apparently her scars disappeared? Either that or this is a drawing of her when she was young and thus before she got her scars

Mid 2015

Okay, so, confession, I don't actually have any art of Dinofur from this time period. Because of that, I referenced other art I did at the time and used I ref I made of Dinofur a year later for the markings.

This was when I decided her purple eye would be green instead and switched which eye was which, though I'm not sure why! This was also when I decided she would be mostly Egyptian Mau/based on the markings of Egyptian Mau

Late 2016

This ref focuses on when I still considered her a fursona, but also works with her having still been an oc. Honestly, self-insert would've been a better term for it. She continues the ever-inevitable march towards more and more realistic markings. At this point I'd realized I was on the aroace spectrum, but hadn't realized I was nonbinary yet.

This was also after I did a hard shift in my art style, totally ditching that attempt at a super realistic style, since I wasn't liking the art I was making with it

Present

Look, there could be at least two more stages between this stage and the last one, but I didn't want the image to get absurdly long, so I capped it at 6. As a result we have an almost 10 year gap in the resume, but the main reason behind this was because 2017 was when I started leaning hard into drawing humans and humanoids, and so the style changes with cats weren't as severe. Early 2020 was when I made the most recent version of Dinofur's design, with her losing the left shoulder scar and the scar by her eye. Definitely makes her face less cluttered! I also ditched the dark markings under her eyes by this point — they were giving her the wrong vibe

Hope you enjoyed reading this!

[redux-iterum]

I can't help reminiscing on how inevitable Fireheart and Rosy's relationship falling apart felt. From the moment they first reunited they were never on the same wavelength, never matching each other's energy; they never quite clicked like Fireheart did with his Clanmates. Every time Rosy brought up their mother or littermates it didn't seem to be that important to him. He knew where his parents and siblings were, and it wasn't in the houses, but she couldn't understand that

Rosy was sort of doomed to fail in this regard. She wasn't taught enough about the world to realize that her family was going to be out of her reach eventually, no matter what she tried to do. She thought she was making a good decision, talking to Fireheart, giving him Cloudnose, trying to keep her baby with her when danger reigned in his home. If she had only grasped that she didn't have any power outside of her yard and house, and understood the scale of the sacrifice she was making when she gave her brother that kitten... maybe things would have turned out better. They just didn't.

[phighting-headcanons]

(They’ve got Barbie doll anatomy there’s nothing to see)

I’ve drawn this before but I have headcanons for how other disabled Inphernals shower, particularly Hyperlaser who sponge bathes to not irritate his burns and uses a stick to get anywhere he’s too fat to reach normally, Broker who showers in cold water so they can’t burn themself without realizing, and Katana who has to clean extra well around his mouth because of the drooling his scars cause

OH MY GOD?? THIS IS SO COOL!! def taking these for a fic I'm writing if you don't mind /gen absolute peakima... also phighters based on bugs... HEHHEHE ILOVE

WELCOME TO THE BLOG TOO! :DD

[thekeytomyh-art]

Introducing my truesona (as a guy who already has a fursona), Beauregard Bones! You can just call him Beau, though.

As a fursona haver I do identify a lot more with the species of my main sona—a penguin—but the character itself of my main fursona is meant to be just one aspect of me, my love of clowning and being social, making people smile! Beau is all of me, the good, the bad and the ugly. I love my dinosaur and I hope you do too! I’d talk about him more but that’s literally just talking about myself and I’d rather not for anonymity’s sake. But feel free to ask questions about him and I can decide if I’m comfortable enough asking! He probably won’t be seen nearly as much as my main fursona, the outgoing and energetic Jester, but he’s always around!

…did I mention I’m open for furry commissions? ;)

[wallter-greystuff-enjoyer]

Please take me back

-@mannequin-mark

Mark. . . I would appreciate it if you didn't mope and drunk text me something at this hour

[wallterwall]

Wallter, are you saying you fed gray stuff to a cat?

Certainly! Only the finest nourishment for the finest of felines!

[context]

[spooksdraws]

Libell

a sweet velociraptor - australian shepherd hybrid