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Are You A Furry?
I believe there's a fundamental misunderstanding on what people believe a furry is, so I decided to answer some common questions and misconceptions about the fandom. This is especially dedicated to those unsure of their furry status!
What Is A Furry?
Furries are fans of anthropomorphic animals, meaning animals that have human-like characteristics - this may manifest in them just having human intellect or speaking, or they may walk on 2 legs, or be fully humanoid.
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"How to Make a Fursona: A guide for furries and non-furries alike (but mostly non-furries)" Is now available for purchase!
>>Purchase link here!<<
This 12-page zine acts as a little activity book. It introduces newcomers to the furry fandom and guides them through making a fursona. Along with being a guide, this zine has a focus on how having an alter ego to express yourself with can lead to a stronger sense of self-love and confidence.
If you're a furry and you want a dog sona, but don't want to go with standard purebreeds, I reccomend taking a look at @odddogs !
Alright after a bit of though as well as a dose of encouragement from other people on here I’m definitely gonna make myself a fursona (and by make I mean design and commission the drawing of, can’t draw to save my life) but I’ve got a fair bit of questions as I move through the process. Some are genuine questions that I need input on, some are just about curiosity, and some are probably just to spark conversation. Overall I haven’t been active in the furry community having just come here from lurking on Reddit, and being generally introverted, but Tumblr is welcoming enough for me to change that.
1. OC and fursona: From my understanding, an oc is an original character created by an artist. They’ve got more than one and they are that, a character. A Fursona I think is a furry persona, a representation of someone, specifically with an anthropomorphic animal of some sort. Is this the difference, or is there something I’m missing? Are fursonas simply the furry version of na OC? Or is one of these things incorrect. Big question, do people tend to have multiple fursonas, or mostly just one?
2. What to do with it: This is a big one. I get profile pictures, that makes sense. But other than that, how are fursonas used for?
3. Commission: I know I can commission someone to draw it, but we’ll that’s all I know. What do I tell them to draw? Do I have to show them something for reference? I can’t draw so what would I show? How much do commissions tend to be? I’m sure they vary depending on what is being drawn, but in this case just a colored character on a blank canvas, what does it tend to be? Who should I go to? In this case, I’d really like to know who you went to if you utilized commissions, and about your general experience.
4. Realism: Obviously there is a sort of leap in realism in the first place. Much more color than is found in specific animals, and specific bodily traits not found in certain species n such. But other than that, how real is do they tend to be? Is it atypical for fursonas to have like a robotic arm? Maybe for a canine to have antlers?
5. Representation: If a fursona is an anthropomorphic representation of the person who is behind it, to what extent is it a representation? Is it how you think you would be represented, with a similar height and build, or how you would wish to be in a specific representation? Does it have piercings you don’t? Building off of realism, maybe it has a special fantastical feature that you just think is neat?
6. Creation: How does one come up with it? Where does it start from, and what do they work with? How did you know what to name it? When you make it, how much of the details are fully realized? Does it ever change, or does the design stay the same? Do they have a backstory like an OC might, or are they, again, simply you?
7. Usage: this might kinda seem odd, but in the case that one person designs it, and another draws it on commission, how you go about sharing your fursona in a way that is respectful to the artist? The first thing that comes to mind is tagging, and I’m not talking about copyright because I’m most definitely not going to be utilizing this in a way that makes money. Or is this something that would more be up to the artist?
That’s really it. For now. I just want to know, mostly about yours. So show it to me and absolutely gush without leaving anything out.
Gonna try to help you as someone who's been in the fandom 8(+) years!
1. A fursona is a furry character usually meant to rappresent you; while some use the term as interchangeable with "furry OC", it's most widely used as "furry persona". You can have furry OCs that aren't your fursona. You can have as many fursonas as you would like, some people have 1, some people have several, and some people that have several at times choose a main one or assign each to different roles (such as personality aspects, comfort or vent, this is literally me vs who I wish I was, etc) - it all depends on what you'd prefer!
2. You can get art, roleplay, give them stories, immagine yourself at them, have them interact with other people's fursonas, and just keep them there rotating them like you're microwaving them in your head. Possibly more that I don't remember rn
3. As you can't draw, there's 4 paths to create them: commission a custom from an artist, in which you describe what you want to the artist and the artist creates a customized design for you. Use a dollmaker, such as the ones found on picrew. Use a base (some are free and some you have to pay to use), in which you have a lineart and you can color it yourself to match what you'd like for the design. Buy an adopt, in which an artist sells a design and you pay to get ownership of said design. After you have this first piece of reference for what your character looks like, you can commission art of them using it as the reference for the artists. Ideally I'd reccomend you have a reference sheet, which is an artwork showing everything an artist needs to know about the character to draw them. Prices vary wildly, so an estimate is hard to give, but find what you think is best for its style and price - many artists have commissions open, so it shouldn't be too difficult to find.
4. They can be as real or fantastical as you would like! There's no main style. It wouldn't be too fantastical to give your sona a robot arm, and canines with antlers are actually quite common!
5. It can look like you as much as you would like - so it could not resemble you at all, be literally just like you, be what you want to be but aren't, and any sort of inbetween. I think the only thing I've seen people generally consider a bad thing is make them a race you're not, and possibly making them part of other marginalized groups you're not though I haven't seen that as commonly. Feel free to do whatever with them!
6. This one has a lot of questions at once. There's various ways to come up with it, and there's various tutorials online. Personally, I pick 1 or more animals I relate to or like, and give them elements that are either like me or that I've seen around and enjoy. I reccomend making a Pinterest board, search "fursona" or "furry", pin the ones you like and then go through them looking at traits you might want to include or common themes/traits. I pick names that I would like to be called, as they rappresent me - so names, nicknames, usernames, and names I think really reasonate with me and I would use as my own in an alternate universe; behindthename.com is a good resource for finding names. Sometimes you make it and it's perfect already, sometimes you have to use it a while for it to be fully realized - if it's not, don't panic. You can change it as much as you would like! I often redesign my sonas when I don't feel as connected with them. They can have a backstory or be just a rappresentation of you, whichever you prefer.
7. That depends on the artist, so feel free to ask them! Most artists don't mind you sharing art you paid for if you credit their work (by tagging or linking to them). I believe when most artists (as one myself) talk about reposting, they mean artwork not explicitly made for the person reposting it (so personal art, and commissions not made for the person reposting it). If in doubt, ask the artist
Hope this was helpful! Feel free to message me/send me an ask here or on my alt @fursona-resources if you have more questions!
Making a (Fur)Sona
For no one in particular.
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Hello! I just send in this question cause I struggle terribly with fursona species switch, and that's likely due to some mental issue I have lmao (like probably my autism or chronic indecisiveness lol) But it's really frustrating cause I don't really want a shapeshifter either :')
Quite relatable, I struggle with this as well. My best advice is:
when the connection with a sona seems to waver, redesign it. It can be as little or as drastic as you'd like. I feel that the longer I've had a design with many iterations, I am more connected to it, and redesigning helps soothe the part of my brain that really wants that species/design immediately right now, and renew my liking for the sona
if you find a species you particularly like, try making an OC instead. That OC can have as many traits like you as you'd like and you can project as much of yourself on them as you want, but I've found making the distinction helpful to me and it helps me explore that species. If you find you end up relating to that character or species, you can turn the OC into a sona or make a new sona based on that species
Try to figure out what traits you like about a species - the colors? The size? The ears? The markings? The way specific artist X drew the species in this one commission from 2009? Add them to your sona. You can also add multiple ears/tails/limbs of various types to your sona
You are allowed to make a hybrid. Hybrids can be of as many species as you want, though some may be lost in the design
Make AU versions of your fursona, in which they are a different species but retain similar traits - similar to shapeshifting, but as a fellow autistic these little "word-only differences" help me categorize this kind of information in a way that is less stressful for me
Connect various species through a backstory - maybe your sona is a phoenix-like creature who's reborn as a different species every 100 years, or maybe they used to be a species and got isekai'd into a world where they're another. Get creative
You are allowed to have as many fursonas as you would like. Nobody is stopping you. You can give them different purposes, too
I hope these helped, at least a little. Sadly, this is a bit of a hard question for me to answer. Good luck!
Wow there should be someone in this community whose blog was dedicated to helping people make fursonas, since that's the most common question I see in furry spaces from new furs. But who would do such a thing (sorry for the hiatus everyone - I'm gonna try to post more, and I think I'm gonna try a different format for the species series)
Lesser known small mammals (or mammals whenever i bring up people have no idea what im talking about)
Quoll ..a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia that spends most of the day sleeping in its dens. there have been 111 recorded events of quolls eating human remains (x) (pictured here is a spotted-tail quoll)
Numbat..an insectivorous marsupial from Australia that is diurnal (or is primarily active during the day). unlike other mammals that primarily eat termites, they have a jaw with 50 very small teeth. they live in tree hollows and block the openings with the thick hide of their rump
Hyrax ..a small thickset herbivorous mammal that is more closely related to elephants and sea cows than pikas and marmots. theyre found in africa, and they have rubbery paw pads that help them climb up rocks (this is a rock hyrax)
Solenodon... a venomous, insectivorous little mammal that is easily provoked into a frenzy of squeaking and biting. it uses echolocation to compensate for its poor eyesight, and females have two teats almost located on its backside (above is a cuban solenodon)
Sengi (elephant shrews (or better known as the get a look at the snout species))...is another insectivore that is more closely related to elephants than true shrews. they live in southern Africa and have relatively large brains for their size (a respectable 11 inches) (this is a black and rufous sengi)
Tenrec..omnivorous little mammal that lives in land, sea, underground, and in trees. there are many different subspecies of tenrec that can look like hedgehogs, opossums, rats, and shrews (this is one is a lowland streaked tenrec from madagascar)
on of my biggest pet peeves is how little design/art people actually try to research about phenotypical differences when creating an monster/making a character based on an animal. like animals from the same species can change sooooooo much!
take the very famous Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) for an habitat based change exemple!
first this is how they look living in the siberian arctic:
ultra fluffy dense coat, stocky limbs, rounder body and small ears for retaining body heat!
now look at how they look in the arabian desert (no this is not a fennec!)
pointy boy unlimited! very long limbs, big tail and ears for body heat dispersion, super lean built.
so when you are designing an animal or using it as a base for a character, try researching a bit more for potential subspecies!
Can I have more than one furrsona?
Of course, I have like 3 main ones and a bunch of secondaries because I'm indecisive. There's no limit, it's up to you! Whatever would make you happiest
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Species: Foxes (Vulpes)
This series focuses on helping people choose interesting species for their fursona through informing them of the many, often overlooked, species out there! This post is about foxes.
Species: South American Canids (Speothos, Chrysocyon, Lycalopex, Cerdocyon, Atelocynus)
This series focuses on helping people choose interesting species for their fursona through informing them of the many, often overlooked, species out there! This post is about South American canids, including false foxes.
Species: Wolf-like Canids (Cuon, Lycaon, Lupulella)
This series focuses on helping people choose interesting species for their fursona through informing them of the many, often overlooked, species out there! This post is about wolf-like canids.
Guys we’re having a breakdown or a breakthrough
How do you pick a fursona? Is there a uquiz we all trust or it’s like a listen to your heart kinda thing?
A fursona's species is a choice! It can be your favorite animal, an animal you relate to, or animal you wish you could be - or just an animal that was assigned to you through a uquiz. There's no wrong way to choose one, and for most people there's no one specific animal that's The One True And Only they're Destined To Be, so feel free to play around with options.
My best advice is to pick a species you like, and that'd make you happy
Species: Wolves (Canis)
This series focuses on helping people choose interesting species for their fursona through informing them of the many, often overlooked, species out there! This post is about wolves.
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leg refences
Reblogging this not only for artists but also for people who write werewolf (and other animal transformation) fiction. If a human turned into a wolf, their knee joints would not reverse– what some fic writers mistake for the knee is actually the ankle. A wolf’s hind feet are relatively long, and they are always walking in way roughly analogous to human “tip-toeing.”
I don’t know if this is useful to anyone, but I made these like a year ago
Plantigrade (humans, bears, etc):
Digitigrade (cats, dogs, etc):
Unguligrade (deer, horses, etc):
