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Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

@meghnanimous

Not sure if this is serious but I will answer this for real because I've seen a lot of 'I can't even tell what's wrong with the first one' tags on this post. The first cow I drew in this thread DOES have too much muscle memory of drawing cows to accurately depict what I'm being a little hater about, but it's still not like, a good stylization of bovine anatomy.

I intentionally represented how a lot of people drop distinctive anatomical traits when drawing cows in favor of:

-eyes very close together on a separate flat plane of the face above the muzzle (rather than sticking out on the sides of a continuous sloping face)

-Giving it a doglike nose that's fairly small and/or disconnected from the lip (instead of it being a fairly broad, usually squarish structure that connects with the lip)

-lack of a poll (region of the skull between the horns, specifically an occipital crest). How dramatic a cow's poll is can vary (some come to peaks, some are flat topped) but the region on most cattle is at least distinct from the rest of the skull

-Horns that can be seen growing straight out of the plane of the skull. A cow's horns obviously Do grow out of the skull, but from the sides of the poll region rather than adhering to the general slope of the crown

Here's a photo that shows how distinct a structure the poll can be and how the horns relate to it (also a very pretty cow)

So like here's a couple quick, okayish realistic taurine cattle

In my art style I would personally stylize a cow into an anthro design (changing some features to fit a humanoid body plan and to depict humanlike expressions) like this:

Or alternatively here's another go at the cutesy style I did to be an asshole, this time with bovine features:

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