How do you draw non-sexual, anthro cartoon animals?

>>2977806
Look up Zootopia or Redwall, or just browse famous fur-affinity gay artists and draw their characters, except wearing pants.
What should makes this particular topic difficult?

>>2977806
look up blacksad(?

>>2977899
not OP, but thanks for reminding me this guy existed. Cool shit, really.

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>>2977806

Go for cute and not sex. Think what is cute? A plushie or a kids stuff toy, Thats your first reference. Other ref can be from previous movies. You can learn really alot by studying disney and pixar movies from characters to expression to color to landscape etc.

Really just first write out what you want to accomplish, then write steps that will get you there, next practice those steps as exercise's too learn.

>>2977918
kummt mein panz

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Autumnlands is maybe too far into the realm of literal "animal head on human body," but at least it's not sexualized.

>>2977918
LEEEEEEEEEAVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE PRRRRRRRROOOOOOOKOOOOOOOOO ALLLLLLLLOOOOONNNNNNNEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

>>2977806

Put clothes on, don't show fur/skin. Draw non human proportions.

>>2977806
by not drawing them performing sexual or suggestive acts, and not putting any focus on sex appeal

>>2977899
blacksad is sexual, the females are heavily sexualised

>>2978108
So be fair, most of the female characters in blacksad are just humans with an animal nose and facepaint. Not sure if that's better or worse to be honest.

>>2978137
It comes off as the artist trying too hard to disassociate from furries. It just looks terrible and was the one thing that has always bothered me about Blacksad. I've seen more Blacksad porn of the male characters than the female characters since the male characters are more well-designed. If the artist's intention really was to disassociate from the furry label, it was at the sacrifice of better designed female characters.

>>2977883
>Do non-sexual anthro characters
>hurrr just look at Zootopia and copy gay furry artists but put pants on their characters!!!!1
>What should makes this particular topic difficult?

Well apparently it is pretty difficult because you would get an F if this was an assignment.

>>2978278
You just said that it's difficult because not even I could do better than an F on that assignment.
That implies I'm a good artist.
You seem to make a lot of assumptions, huh.

Either way you seem to be dissatisfied with my answer, so tell me, what makes this topic difficult for you?
Learn gesture and structure, study humans, study animals, combine the two, look for references (zootopia, furry porn artists) and practice a lot.

>>2977924
Actually a pretty good starting point. Another tip is even if the character is female, don't give her tits. Zootopia is a good look at this for some of their characters (Others are closer to animal than they are humanoid)

Older Disney cartoons and movies are another good place, or in general older animations that used animals (Tex avery for instance).

Sometimes it's as easy as just changing your drawing style a little
>>2977985
This is kind of neat

Its funny people mention zootopia, cause even though the characters don't have boobs, people still draw lots of porn for the movie characters.

This is something i've been thinking about as well, I would like to draw animal characters at some point for a story idea. But I'm worried about being associated with furries. I kind of want to draw sexy female animals. But not if it means people will draw porn of my characters. But i guess people will do that anyway if they like something enough.

>>2978405
>I kind of want to draw sexy female animals
yeah that's furry

come out of the closet, furfags are more than the autistic stereotype, there are all kinds of people being into anthros

you can just do your thing and not go to furry community sites
I wouldn't worry about others drawing porn, most are busy with their own characters

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>>2977924
>cute
that's the tip to follow if you want to make shit looking character design that will look like every other shit looking character design ever made by untalented artists ever

https://e926.net/post?tags=order%3Ascore

>>2977918
you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

>>2978481
Drawing is a wonderful straightforward science. If something looks like shit then it is shit.

>>2978327

Either you are misunderstanding OPs question and have misread every single post ITT or you're really dumb. OP is asking how to draw NON-sexual athro characters. Why on earth would you suggest him to look at furry porn artists if he wants to AVOID drawing anthro characters like that?

>>2977806
You study the animal's anatomy. Then you study human anatomy. Then you combine elements from each.

There's no shortcut.

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>>2978488
I kinda hoped you'd understand that the part where I say "except wearing pants" means "but don't draw them with their dicks out", because that's the only thing that makes those drawings sexual.
What you're left with is quality reference from artists who make thousands by drawing anthros, so I'd presume they're pretty good at it.

Pic related is from one of such artists.

>>2977985

This looks awful to me, like animal heads from reference photos drawn on top of regular figures. Regular furshit is way better imo

>>2978511
yeah but generaly a porn artists's designs contain heavily homoerotic themes and motifs

>>2977806
Do not draw muscles. Don't accentuate them, don't even hint at them. If you really have to, warp and distort them so they look as cartoony as possible. The torso and limbs need to be clean, you can draw them as noodles and blobs or you can exaggerate the joints but only through the outlines. Also, don't use realistic proportions and try to always draw them a bit hunched or leaning and bending at the knees.

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I was looking at some old cartoons that feature talking animals. And I remembered these guys, would you say Cleo's design is sexual or non sexual?

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>>2978533

If I compare her to swat kats female designs like Callie here, I'd say swat kats are more sexual.

>>2978405

People draw porn of everything. There's a good reason why Rule 34 is an objective rule.

>>2978481
lost

People want to fuck anything, just focus on what you think looks good

>draw a "sexual" anthromorphic character
>put it in a non sexual situation
>hide the dick
its now a normal anthromorphic character. its not rocket science.
What next, you're going to ask how to draw pornstars not doing porn? Sexuality is based on the environment not the character.

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Look at cartoons specifically for kids. Not all ages like most Disney stuff.

>>2977806
Draw actual animals standing upright instead of attractive humans with animal heads.

Study Robin Hood and
>>2978278
>Zootopia
Because it's pretty great reference, there are lots of sketches and notes on design on Cory Loftis' and Shiyoon Kim's blogs.

>>2978405
>This is something i've been thinking about as well, I would like to draw animal characters at some point for a story idea. But I'm worried about being associated with furries.
You only have to not associate with the fetish community and nobody will bother you.

>>2977806

Like someone previously said, draw human, and animal anatomy/practice gesture etc reg, and reference NSFW and SFW furry artist/Disney and cartoons. The biggest thing that makes an image or character explicitly non-sexual is junk and emphasis on certain erotic points, like abs, breast, muscles, but these structures can equally equate out to cool designs as well.

I would say take Null-Ghost, Tacklebox, Darkgem, or Jacketbear for example. All incredibly good with some genuinely great designs/work. They draw nsfw and sexualize their characters but ultimately the base design isn't necessarily sexual unless you read that vibe to begin with. If you have an idea of what you're trying to accomplish, stylistically, then seek to accomplish it.

Seriously, the only thing that makes the character sexual is if you're drawing them in a sexual situation. Their body may be erotic but you can curve the idea to your whim.

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lol who knows

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Better question.

How do you draw sexual, non-anthro cartoon animals?

>>2981663
Ferals?
Study actual anomal anatomy, and learn the major muscle masses and simplified skeleton.

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>no bellatrix potter in this thread
deprived childhoods everywhere