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Other Topics / Chris Hart's 'how to draw furries'

« on: January 24, 2011, 02:07:38 pm »

To begin with, I've been learning to draw in general for quite some time, two years actually, and I've been relying on a lot of sources of help me achieve my goals. Interestingly enough, the more I move away from furry in general, the better I seem to get (largely because I'm not using primarily pornography or cheesecake pictures for a model of what I aspire to be able to do). But that being said, I did notice that no matter how many books on drawing I see, I don't believe I ever saw one that was dedicated to drawing furries as we know it. Animals? Of course. Cartoon animals? Plenty. But not one that would mix general human anatomy to realistic degrees with just enough animal figures to make it furry.

Of course then I saw this. http://www.chrishartbooks.com/upcoming.html

Granted it isn't released yet, but the fact that it's being made, and by no other than Christopher Hart, makes me wonder whether he's a hidden furry, out to capitalize on furries or people interested in them, or he is just fed up by the general lack of skill and decided to make a book giving them lessons on how to do it (Jim Hardiman made a few minor 'something to think about' comics several years ago).

What do you guys think?

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Other Topics / More Orangina stuff

« on: September 10, 2010, 08:46:13 am »

Everyone here knows about the original Orangina commercial. An especially long commercial with a big song and dance sequence of a bear with an 'Adam' leaf covering him, a bikini clad deer, zebras in monokinis who get their vagina's slapped by said bear during a slide underneath them, and of course a panda girl getting her dress ripped off (though you'd swear it was a bikini to begin with).

They later had some newer commercials that showed the furries in a less than directly sexual role (in some cases) but still had fun with them. Now there's these ones that are only a few months old.

http://www.youtube.com/user/orangina#p/a

With the sole exception of the cougar shaving (which towards the end becomes obvious that he's gay and that guy is his partner) there's very little in terms of sexuality or innuendo that marked the other orangina commercials. I say that because it seems unusual that the shift from either sex jokes (the original commercial, or the giraffe skater following the butt of some other guy), or animal jokes, like the laughing hyena, to a rather conventional animal mascot use that's been around for a long time.

Again, it seems to me that the whole point of the originals was to catch the attention of the viewers and once they had it, they decided to drop it and play it (for the most part) safe, and the joke seems to be on the drink itself, that somehow it's an aftershave, a deodorant, a milk substitute, a shampoo, and others. That joke might be a bit clever at first, but it gets old very quickly.

 

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Other Topics / Not really that big a deal but...

« on: August 30, 2010, 06:20:03 pm »

I remember that at one time Blacksad was often brought up as an example of Furry done right (I.E. Compelling characters, good story, great art, lack of perversion, etc), and I also remember I said in late 2009 that there would be a fourth book in the series out. Well it has been out for quite some time, but currently it's available only in French (Which isn't a problem for me since I know that language).

The title is 'L'Enfer, le silence,' which translated directly to 'Hell, the silence' or 'The silence of Hell', and has a cool cover of Blacksad roughed up and apparently unconscious underwater. I haven't been able to get my hands on the whole thing (there's some previews available, but only a few have the dialogue in them) yet, since no downloads are available as of yet (and if I know the internet like I do. It might not be unless translated into English), and I haven't checked my local bookstore to see if they have it (I live in Quebec, and most bookstores have large French novel/graphic novel sections for obvious reasons).

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Other Topics / An old topic about the history of furres?

« on: July 10, 2010, 06:26:26 pm »

Before CYD got taken over by vivisector, there was this topic about the history of the fandom about how porn got more prevalent in the early 90's when some guys scanned furry porn with a primitive scanner onto BBS and basically got the whole thing rolling, eventually leading to 'piracy' of various artists' work on CDs and fraud and other stuff like that. It was pretty interesting and I'm wondering if there's any chance of anyone reposting it here.