Furry Art?

I've heard that too, supposedly you can make BANK on rich furries. Anyway, does it have to be pornographic? Like I'm fine with drawing a naked dog... That's usually how you draw them, but what I mean is, hardcore stuff, is that a requirement to make.. Bank? Suppose you know your stuff, but think drawing portraits is lame.

>>3016584
I mean I'd be okay with drawing something risque but I'm not too keen on drawing... Actually not much is off the table for me personally if the coins are right, I'm more concerned with executing it to the best of my abilities. There's also the fear of pupdog vore porn following me professionally.

Also I imagine any form of porn will make you some degree of bank, I just... Don't want to. For some reason drawing someone's fursona sounds more appealing than drawing some blonde getting spit-roasted.

Dont be a jew and draw furry just because you think its lucrative. Draw what you actually want to draw, i draw furry because i think its fucking hot, dont be a faker and draw it just for the money

>>3016584
for 90% furries it's a fetish so if it's not porn it's at least gonna have to be somewhat sexual

go to the /trash/ drawthread, a good look into the kind of shit degenerate furries crave.

basically: you gotta be real good to bank on vanilla, degenerates have lower standards because of the smaller pool of artists to choose from

obviously you don't use the same name for your furry porn and pro portfolio

>>3016688
You just wanna keep all the degenerate money for yourself!

if u don't want to create real sick stuff, i imagine what would be even more lucrative is sensual furry work. you know, instead of furries going cumdrunk and shit, maybe furries making love?

idk, not a furry, but an interesting topic.

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>>3016581>>3016584
If you don't want to draw porn, then you actually have to be good. You will need to learn how to render well. However, do note that we are a community that craves art. You will always have clients if your nice and deliver work on time.

Don't listen to the anons that think furry is only sexual. People that like the sexual stuff also love the non-sexual stuff. And there are many furries that don't like the sexual art too. It's pretty much like any other community in that regard.

>>3016737
>furries making love?
You mean missionary while holding hands?
You fucking degenerate

>>3016584
It's not mandatory, but god damn it's hard to without it being NSFW. There's some doctor dude that's spent thousands on -only- Falco x Fox macro porn, and he hasn't even played the game.

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>>3016740
Oh by the way this clockbirds
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/clockbirds/

And this is a nice book on animals.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/097103141X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_dp_T2_rYdpzb8C0BGR5

And the picture in this post is by Caraid.

>>3016744
even worse, like maybe guy tracing her bra marks with her laughing

it's fucked up, i know

>>3016747
But that goes for every style though. You will have a very hard time reaching Shadman, or Sakimichan levels without drawing porn. What separates the furry fandom from others though, is that you have more ways of making money.

Furries will buy adoptables of premade designs, they will buy your character here commissions, badges for conventions, key chains/other accessories of their own characters, comics, sculptures, etc. The community will buy anything if your good.

>>3016581
is that mucknagabe? his style is fucking comfy and adorable.

japanese artists just draw better and less degenerate furries than western artists.

>>3016740
wtf im a furry now

>>3016749
>tracing her bra marks
>on fur
you lost me anon

>>3016581
Furry art can be very lucrative depending on how well you market your product. You can charge by the character, color, and fetish. The more obscene the fetish, the more people are willing to pay. Even just head shots of people trying to get some good concept art for their characters can be pay pretty good. Go to the FurAffinity forums and you'll see people willing to pay for the dumbest shit.

>>3016748
>And this is a nice book on animals.
Nice! Does anyone have a download? I can't find it on Amazon in my 3rd world shithole

>>3016748
I really, really like the glass in that painting. From the lights to the bottles on the counter. Everything is top-notch too except maybe the rabbit's(?) feet could be more elongated.

>>3016740
As a developing artist that's never ventured his art outside of a small group of people, where would it be the best place to start creating a furry audience? Deviantart? Fur afinity? Tumblr?

>>3016814
I'm not a furry artist, but if I had to guess, you could do some quick stuff on the forums to get your name out there as well as do some requests and cheap commissions for any number of things like furry, pokemon, pony, or whatever. Putting your stuff on e621 with a link to a Tumblr archive would do some good, too. You would need to be active and put in a lot of work before your name gets out there.

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>>3016814
I like fur affinity, It's easy to meet people there, getting watchers, favs, and there are all sorts of artists there.

>>3016818
Thanks, only question is, which forums are you talking about?

>>3016822
make a furaffinity account , there is the largerst furry audience afterall if you are good you get watchers in no time but please only start drawing furry if you have a passion for it , else you will produce subquality work and at the beginning you have to interact alot with the community aswell so having atleast some interest in it beside money is a good idea . tumblr is not so good for furry artwork and e621 is not very good to promote yourself since most people there only go there for a quick fap without (or rarely) looking up the artist and you have little controll over what you post there.

>>3016719
no seriously dont do it if you dont enjoy it , if you are only doing it for money you are doing it wrong.
Art is about making what you love if you dont like furry artwork its a bad place to start to make money .

>>3016748
Literally of all the good animal art books you could have posted, you posted one of the worst. Good jerb

I guess it figures that the animals in your posted furry pics have awful anatomy too.

>>3016837
I agree with this anon.
It will just make you unhappy in the end. All the top furry artists are very passionate about their work, and the whole reason they started drawing was that they were into the subject.

I spend hours drawing furry every day, designing characters, scenarios, etc. I would never be able to do it if I didn't love it.

>>3016842

Post your book.

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>>3016740
after reading that I just realized I have more sfw art saved on my pc than porn

>>3016581
Engrossing yourself in the community is the way to sell clean stuff/vanilla porn stuff. If you don't like any aspect of furry art whatsoever, I'd highly recommend you don't do it. If you do, selling a quirky/colorful stylized work is pretty doable.

Even if you sell gross porn for the desperate degenerate bux, they'll flock to you and try to befriend you because "hey, this weirdo is like me??? awesome, I'm gonna tell them all my fantasies!" Even if you're personally into the same gross-ass niche fetish, if you're an otherwise normal person attracting these weird fuckers to your inbox almost makes it not worth it.

>>3016718
/trash/ is the absolute worst of the furry community and it's not representative at all

>>3016909

RIP /furry/, got killed by spambot.

There's /fur/ though.

>>3016737
That actually does really well.

>>3016581
Wolfy-Nail, Darkgem, Forge and Miles-DF are pretty damn popular.
Wolfy-Nail once sold a commission of some vanilla porn for like $2000 and became a meme ever since.

>>3016799
There's always scalies and niche stuff like chinese crested dogs, sphynx cats, etc.

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>>3016581
Not the same, but in the height of MLP, I did MLP commissions.
I restricted myself to only G rated stuff. It's monotonous and you may learn to hate doing commissions but you're obviously targeting nerds with lots of expendable income so it's not bad for a while. Then I realised I could make more money per hour of work at McDonald's and feel less dirty.

>>3016581
One thing most people forget about is making art that is attractive to furries. You could draw like a god, but if it's not an attractive style, you won't get as much interest. I see this a lot. People with amazing use of color, etc, just overlooked with sometimes less than a hundred watchers because their furries are in some uncanny valley of looking like a normie drew them, or otherwise unappealing. Closest comparison I can think of is if a gay guy tried drawing attractive women and lesbian porn. It wouldn't hit the right notes. The sex is there, just not enticing or arousing. This applies even to sfw furry art. If it combines the wrong features, it's easily overlooked.

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>>3016708

Not a fetish too bad retards will never let this die. No matter what points are offered it's just the typical low IQ republitard "kys, :^), its a fetish, faggots, gay, losers, blah blah blah over and over and over and over and over and over..."
>>3016718
/trash is REALLY SHIT. It's been taking over my shitty anime, basic porn and mlp faggots. Trash is/was never a "furry board" it just happened to start that way but the main posters left months ago.
>>3016581
Porn drawings, is a big thing for furries. Like anime/hentai generally retards on /ic/ drawing nignogs fucking blonde bimbos its all the same everywhere.

You can't escape this. And THOSE people pay the cash. Doing safe stuff and being able to roll in cash will never happen. Those who do that and do well making as much as porn artist are never gonna be dethroned by casual PG-13 stuff.

So you have to be ok with that. Along with idiots like above posting "kys" and similar low IQ spam cause none of them can think of original insults. And attacking a harmless community cause "I'm alpha lel" ( Sure you are sheep keep on jumping off that cliff of stupidity ) Trash people follow trash fads and use trash insults. Salty much?

GL OP

I sold a furry a 5k commission it was tasteful nudity of some female dingo dursona. I doubt I'll ever get a commission like that again. Most of the time I do 50 - 100 buck commissions.

Some Leaf, not a Burger.

>>3016740
>>3016748

This person is partially right. THERE ARE a lot of furries that prefer no sexual stuff. But. Again. You are gonna have trouble competing with them.

Name is everything inn this community.

Most however are the "fur-suitors" themselves ( The ones no life neckbeards constantly say are fetish, losers whatever. )

If you make a fur-suit. You will be set, WAY less people making them. But. Good luck, name is key in all regards.

>>3017090
Are you one of those with the high realism painterly styles? Those are the only ones I see getting that kind of sfw cash.

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>>3017067
you have a point.
Not long ago I was obsesed with making the most realistic, most precise drawings there I could make when drawing anatomy, but one day I realized that they lacked appeal, thats was when I decided to start exagerating or softening elements of my art to make it more attractive, that and include the use more saturated colors.

The next step after realism, is the inclusion of style, that and what I like to call the triade of visual interest in characters: Sexy, Cute, Epic.

>>3017087
>Not a fetish too bad retards will never let this die.
There's a research sheet somewhere where they gathered results from furries at cons etc. It IS a fetish for the vast majority, and the vast majority consumes porn.

>>3017060
>tfw no sphynx cat waifu in your bed
goddammn you anon

>>3017090
Can you post something of yours? I would like to see how you have to draw in order to make that kind of money

i've seen so many of my art friends falling for the furry commission meme, and then dropping it a few months later because its not the get-rich-quick scheme they thought it was.

who the hell is gonna risk giving hundreds of dollars to some unestablished artist that could flake out at any moment? you have to draw furry art consistently enough to build up not only a portfolio of work but also an audience. its something you have to develop over time and commit to. you have to break out from no-name artist status and become some sort of popular before you get good commissions. anyway all that shit is soul draining if you're not passionate about drawing furries. at that rate you might as well go get a regular salary job you hate instead, at least you'd get health benefits.

if you want some animal anatomy books, the ken hultgren one and the eliot goldfinger books are the go-tos afaik. eliot goldfinger's book has a section comparing animal anatomy to human anatomy which really helped me wrap my head around the whole concept. i took a seminar/class thing from this marshall vandruff guy a few years back and that was really great, he has a gnomon video thing on animal anatomy too but i've never watched it so i dunno if its as good or what. but none of these suggestions are anthropomorphic stuff. if you like children book-esque art then why aren't you looking at disney, most of their stuff is anthro childrens book stuff wtf

>>3017444
Aaron Blaise has a great, great course on drawing animals.

>>3017469
Seconding this, his chanel is amazing. I like to draw with him as I watch his videos.

>>3017444
>you have to break out from no-name artist status and become some sort of popular before you get good commissions

You really don't.

I like certain furry art that has more of a kemono touch but it's pretty hard to draw. I wanna learn it though because its cute and makes bank

>>3017637
like ops image, really cute

>>3017637
>>3017639
So study it.

This isn't rocket science. You're literally looking at the answers.

>>3017404
Don't listen to him, he probably believes the "2 spirited" delusional BS.

>>3017087

>not a fetish
>porn drawings,is a big thing for furries

Before making an argument, make sure you don't contradict yourself.

>>3016581
there's a fine line between shit & good furry stuff
what I think is good is stuff that's more human or more animalistic

things with slight animal features (bunny ears & tail, whiskers, etc) can look good if the human side looks good
on the other hand, I think that certain things that make it look more like an animal (american tale, great mouse detective, redwall, etc) can look great

on the other hand, I think that fetishizing this stuff is disgusting

>>3017635
You kinda do if your art doesn't stand out. Average furry art with a good track history vs someone with no audience or record. Most people will pick the safer bet. You need to either be good, unique, or network. So the same as usual, just more autistic and slightly easier.

>>3019024
A lot of people don't seem to get what "Good" entails for stylized art so it's probably worth pointing out that "Good" isn't in the nigh-unobtainable expert tier of art in the way it is if you want a solid concept art job, it's just the level where you can produce something that is nice to look at fairly regularly. You hit that and you can sell *any* kind of stylized work that is in demand if you're able & willing to do a minimal amount of networking. This isn't exclusive to furry, and it's why I regularly tell people not to pursue it if they don't like drawing furry characters. That furry is somehow easier to get into than any other stylized commission market is a big meme.

You just have to not be devoid of any ability to make an appealing looking picture. I sell exclusively clean art fairly regularly and I wouldn't call my artstyle difficult to draw. Ricket/Crocstew sells large quantities of exclusively clean art and I wouldn't call their style difficult to pull off either. Just don't suck the hugest dick ever at the most basic part of drawing and you're set.

I posted a handful of smutty Furry sketches on reddit and immediately got a ahit load of people practically begging for commissions. Most aimed around $50 to $100. I accepted one, knocked out the drawing in an hour and banked $40. That wqs like 4 months ago and I atill log in occasionally ans find new PMs from people begging. A lot want the sinplest shit. "My char is a kangaroo draw kangaroo paws in dirty socks giving a footjob to a dog." Would take me all of half an hour to pound it out and they'll pay $30 for it.

So yeah if you draw decently well you'll make cash.

>>3017640
I've been studying kemono for a year now and I don't think I've gotten anywhere useful. Hiw exactly does one study art?

when you say furry i primarily think at anthro art (human body animal head not an animal on 2 legs) so here a some of my favorite furry "artist"
alectorfencer
bubblewolf
falvie
kenket
lilaira
guoh
goldenwolf

as for books ,the anatomy ones are the best, my favorite being" An Atlas of Animal Anatomy " and terryl whitlatch books