Drawing Fantastic Furries: The Ultimate Guide to Drawing Anthropomrphic Charaacters

They walk through step by step how to draw, and even though I do 3D and not 2D it’s still a wonderful addition to my collection!! If you want to learn to draw furries than this book is for you. It is very funny that I see people with icons that are literally traced out of this book. If not than they followed the step by step to drawing the heads. It is very funny. But I really love this book and it has taught me a lot in terms of placement of parts and other things as well. All in all it is a well rounded book and very good for beginners.

Really great read and extremely help if you are learning to design your own furry creatures. Book was recommended to my entire college Illustration Class for character design week.

Some Furry art books are a lot more polished, but this one goes well under the hood. Giving in depth structure of the feet / paws and the planning out of Digi grade legs. Something most other how to draw furry art books don’t cover well.

Great book! A lot of different way to learn how to draw furries. I learned a lot from it. Totally worth to buy this book if you want to learn drawing furries.

This book has a few good anthro drawings and some useful pointers, but is too full of cartoon type information for my taste. Not the best book on anthro art, but if that is what you want to draw and you can afford this book you might pick it up. Unless you’re an advanced anthro artist you could learn a few things from it.

Never let it be said that the artistic world will not progress beyond what it currently is – a slathering mess of a few hundred household names, some dozen companies and some tens of millions of hobbyists, learners and semi-pros looking for easy money. And what better way to add to the cavalcade of culture than a book on how to draw one of the fastest-growing sensations since Creepypasta and Nyan-cat – Furries.

What passes for visual content belies what it would be used for in some of the seedier corners of the internet, which, surprisingly, is presented here as very cleanly and with some measure of moral scruples. (At least in contrast to Furaffinity and INK Bunny.) What is portrayed are non-explicit images without showing too much of what should be covered by clothing, yet there is enough fabric mysteriously stolen by the Spaghetti Monster to be considered inappropriate by the Seventeenth Century Puritans. But in defence of the furries, the majority of them have so much fur that clothing is mostly redundant beyond modesty. The art is lovely to look at, yes, even strong and fierce where it applies, but it’s split between furries melting in 110 degree heat and those wearing so much clothing that one would think that they’re freezing to death.

The overall format does have to be commended if for nothing else but brevity. It does touch base with some genres and tastes, nicely rounding off the brighter and darker elements of high-fantasy, Victorian England and 1990’s and 2000’s life. Everything else ranging from ancient history to science-fiction got an unfair boot in the tail-end and are sent packing so they can’t be showcased the book. Sure a werewolf in something that looks like a fantasy reject and an Amazon-looking cat on the back of a rampaging ape is cool, but what about a snow leopard with a laser sword or a gunslinging lioness? The book does portray the anthros it does show rather well, but it’s just so limited everywhere else.

The diagrams and instructions presented is mostly typical in the majority of art how-to books in the last decade or so – this is how I do it. If it were as simple as getting a light-box and tracing the outlines without getting sued for plagiarism, I’d agree that it should 100% work. So unless you want to spend the next five or so years in a jail-cell from copying from the light-box or trying to decipher the quantum leaps between steps one and gogolplex, it’d be prudent to learn how to do figure and comparative anatomy from another source. The early instruction examples sometimes feel so short that it’s like you have missed the best part of the movie when it comes to actually doing something practical. Colouring is skipped entirely so much so that nothing is shown on how to do it, save for one scrap where a copic is used to tickle an arctic fox’s face. The expectation of prior knowledge is hugely overwhelming that does nothing to guide other than to provide skeletons for furry poses. The personalised writing and the overall feel that Hart is talking with you on an understandable level is a mitigating factor here, but not something that outright forgives the quantum-leap diagrams and expected prior knowledge.

That isn’t to say that the book doesn’t reward you for persistence. Artists that actually manage to decrypt the mystical codes and indecipherable instructions to the unwary set forth by Christopher Hart may find themselves well and truly liking what they’ve created if it comes out as shown in the book. That may be hard without the latest version of Photoshop, a top of the line graphics-tablet and enough copic markers coming out of your ears, but that’s just setting up for defeatism.

Basically, all you need to know is this – The book looks cool enough and has lots of pretty pictures with their stick-skeletons, but that’s it in essence. If you’ve had a few years experience of art, go ahead and amaze the furry community, but avoid trying to learn from it at all costs if you’ve never touched a pencil before. It’s a good motivator to get good if you like furries, but really start lower on the how-to spectrum to get into art. But overall, is it worth it just to look at? Yes.