Reviews

Draw More Furries: How to Create Anthropomorphic Fantasy Animals by Jared Hodges, Lindsay Cibos

littlepanda's review against another edition

2.0

Interesting for anthropomorphic drawings but it was not that much detailed and missed important coloring advices

amekatz's review against another edition

5.0

Jared Hodges and Lindsay Cibos give fun step by step instructions on drawing furries. They start with a brief introduction covering such items as how human- or animal-like you want your characters to be, body proportions, and gender differences. Subsequent chapters deal with separate animal families such as felines, canines, and equines. Every lesson starts by showing how to draw the face using circles and guidelines to determine where to put eyes, mouth, nose, and ears. Details are then refined and guidelines erased before adding color and hair. Drawing the full body is then covered, once again showing pencil sketches starting from the basic shapes to adding final details including clothing and hair and ending with the finished figure complete with color. The authors give many examples of the different aspects of each animal family, among them tails, ears, and teeth. Each chapter section Morphology deals with how animal-specific you want your character. Two examples are shown - the first being mainly human-looking with a few animal features as fluffy, pointed ears and a tail and the second mostly animal-like with human details such as facial expressions and being bipedal.

Sorry if my review sounds pedantic, but this is a really fun book to look at even if you don't plan on becoming the next great furry artist. Hodges and Cibos make learning how to draw look easy with their line sketches and all, and their use of color is amazing and vibrant. Even if you don't want to draw furries at all, this book would still give good tips on drawing humans or animals. My artwork usually looks not much better than a child's scrawling, but I'm tempted to give it another try after reading this book.