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Shen Makes an Earnest Attempt at Making a Fursona (Pt. 1)
🕑 Added 2025-12-08 04:33:22 +0000 UTCSo, I'm not a furry, but I thought I've always kinda wanted to make a real attempt at making a fursona. Not like the type of "haha, look, Shen is a sparkle wolf" I would make for a comic, but something with deliberation put into the design (no hate towards sparkle wolves either, they just happen to be the go-to furry parody).
Let's do this shit. Here is a list of to-dos I made on how I could go about making this fursona:
[ ] Pick 3 animals
[ ] Do studies of those animals. Takes notes on any defining characteristics that could be included in an anthro version (1 hr)
[ ] Do studies of anthro art (30 minutes)
[ ] Create 3 anthro designs (1 per animal)
[ ] Iterate on them each of them once
[ ] Pick the one I like most
[ ] Iterate on it 2 more times
[ ] Make a cool drawing of it, where I vary up the angle and pose a bit
At the end of that, I should have a real, well thought out fursona!!
But I'm not gonna do ALL that today. I'm gonna do those first 3 things:
[ ] Pick 3 animals
[ ] Do studies of those animals. Takes notes on any defining characteristics that could be included in an anthro version (1 hr)
[ ] Do studies of anthro art (30 minutes)
My 3 animals are going to be some of my favorite animals:
1) Crab
2) Raccoon
3) Owl
I've definitely seen raccoon fursonas, but owls are more rare, and I'm not even sure I've seen a crab one. I know that maybe I'm supposed to think less about "what animals I like" and more about "what animals most fit my personality", but I think that if I like an animal, there's probably a reason for that. So it's time for some studies.
20 MINUTES OF CRABS, GO!
20 MINUTES OF RACCOONS, GO!
(In retrospect, I should have focused more on sussing out the form of the raccoon here. I got a bit lost in how furry and seemingly amorphous they are. )
20 MINUTES OF OWLS, GO!
And now for 30 minutes of anthro art style study. I'll be studying the animated series Brand New Animal for this, because I love Studio Trigger and remember loving the character designs in BNA. I'm only gonna time when I'm actually drawing, and I'm gonna try to find stuff close to how I wanna draw. The protagonist being very raccoon-like is fortunate for me.
Now that we've gotten this mini training arc out of the way, I'll be diving into my initial character designs tomorrow, and doing the first iteration.
Also, since I'm describing my process here, feel free to follow along at home too! And if you make something you wanna show off, just send it to me at shencomix@gmail.com, and let me know if it's okay for me to include it in a post, and how I should credit you ("anonymous patron" is okay if you're don't wanna be credited).
CYA TOMORROW!!
Comments
Andrew Frisina
That gorgeous af Primarina-esque character vibes. Also I was gonna suggest a gopher but honestly I wanna see your crab fursona. Take inspiration from Knife Crab and the TMNT but turn yourself into a Teenage Mutant Pirate Crab with a Knife. But not teenager, but still general concept. Maybe not three fingers, maybe two fingers and two claws for each hand? And then little claws that aren't pincers on the feet, a total of three or four?
Ghost
a crab fursona for the crab bucket jokes would be so amazing
SHEN
yeah i do think hermit crab is a promising one the more i think about it, but we will see what i land on!
skysyzygy
Go Shen!! I really enjoy this process, and am happy to see you drawing Your Little Guy!! hermit crab feels very fitting for Shen character imo
Ladytore
I love your work, and I love all the research that went into this.
Limi
Oooo this is so much fun! I seriously can't wait to see the end result. Might try out these steps, myself :o
Rodith ''Snow Leopard'' Calna
I know somebody with an owl fursona! My "truesona" that is actually meant to represent me is a snow leopard, but people get crazy with it. I have a friend who's "fursona" is a robot bee, so I made a similar character that's a robot isopod. It's so cool you're doing this! When you're done would you be okay with people drawing your new fursona?
nerp
Trigger + hype ass high energy theme song = good times approaching
SillyVixen
I love that you're doing this as an art project! I just want to suggest that you could make a hybrid of the animals you picked, combining aspects or mix-n-matching parts, you should also think about why you like them. I think of my fursona as a reflection of who am, a translation of my soul for others to read.
PizzaHutAsuka
BNA MENTIONED!!!!!!
Erica
I kinda feel like I’ll love fursona Shens. Maybe because they’re not sparkle wolves. I never put much thought into fursonas myself but I feel like if I made one they’d be like AC villagers. My favorite animals are giraffe, jellyfish, and foxes but I also feel like foxes are as overdone as wolves.
