This means you need to simplify the face to make room for more human-like features. The eyebrows are a must, and they have to be mobile—we can read a lot from them. Many animals seem to carry a single facial expression all the time because of fixed facial features that we recognize as eyebrows (for example, many birds of prey look angry or proud, regardless of what they feel). They don't need to have the shape of human eyebrows, but they should be capable of affecting the shape of the eye. Many mammals have a tuft of whiskers above the eye—you can transform this part into pseudo-eyebrows.

Lips are also important for talking—notice how you pronounce 'm', 'p', 'b', 'f', 'w', 'v' (talking birds can have problems with those). If your character is a bird, you may have to use a compromise—you either keep it realistic and never use any expression around the "lips", or treat the opening of the beak as normal, human lips. it transform into one later? The degree of animal-like transformation and the affected body parts alter depending Humans have a lot of tiny muscles in their faces used specifically for creating various facial expressions. We can also recognize the smallest change in them to interpret the mood of the other person. Animals, though they have a repertoire of facial expressions suitable for their species, are not nearly as expressive as us, and the whole body matters more in their communication than in ours.Yagiyama is a freelance illustrator who designs and draws characters--mostly men and monsters--for play-by-web and social games. In most animals, you don't really see the white of the eye, and when the animal wants to look around, they usually use their whole head. But humans are different—because there's so much of the white of the eye visible, you can see exactly where the person is looking. Real anatomy is not easy to learn and remember, and simplification can save you from it. People will see a leg even if it doesn't have a perfectly shaped knee—it just needs a joint in a certain place and some mass around two bones. But this is something you need to go to yourself—learn the real anatomy, and then remove the redundant parts step by step. Remember, guessing has nothing to do with simplification; stylization is purposeful, not random. Make the Face Talk

Characters based on cats, dogs, wolves, foxes, goats, birds, whales, sharks, crocodiles, dragons--and more! on the circumstances. Where did you furry come from and where is it going in the arc of your story? All important Anatomically correct furry manga bodies, skulls, faces, appendages and tails with human proportions We are born with a tendency to assign human attributes to non-human entities. Before the dawn of modern civilization, people used to see a soul in stones, trees, and animals, and treated natural phenomena as powerful entities with their own will. Even random occurrences were assigned to the will of "fate", which sometimes "smiled upon" a person or was "cruel" to them.Because of this, simply attaching an animal head to your anthro's body will make it quite hard to treat the creature as a person. We need moving eyebrows, flexible lips, visible whites of the eyes, to convey the messages written in the language of human facial expressions. Moving the ears or changing the shape of the pupils can be just an addition—they're enough for an animal, but not for an intelligent, talking person. You can achieve this by using a simplified body rhythm. What is the very first thing you see when looking at the character? How would you describe its silhouette if you could only use the terms of simple shapes? Always start your sketch from this, and you can be sure that your character will send a consistent message about its body shape. Let’s see what happens when we incorporate comical eyes and real eyes into the same face. It’s clear that even though only the eyes have ance. Let’s convert the joints for walking upright so that the body doesn't lose proportion or balance.

For furries, anthros are like people of different species, sort of non-human-looking humans. When asked about the appeal of such a design, they usually mention the boring look of human characters (limited by their humanity). Anthro animals introduce a simpler, purer way of communication, without the complexity of "normal" human interaction. And their look can express their character clearly, which is not so simple in humans. Art by iguancheg The feet, for example, are used for walking, not for looking cute. The paw pads are not random—they're cushions for the bones in the foot. If your character is bipedal, do paws instead of hands make sense, if it doesn't really use these "feet" for walking? You need to think about all these things if you want to finish the design in a convincing way. Anthropomorphism is often used in children's movies/books, because it's easy to create original characters this way, and kids are naturally more drawn to cute animals/talking machines than to "normal", boring humans they can see every day. But anthros, as such characters are called, are also popular among older audiences.Finally, when your character has a full, roughly sketched body, you can start adding details to it. Does it have hands or paws? What do its feet look like? What does it wear, what clothes, what jewelry? This is the most fun part about designing a character, but there still should be nothing random about it. Even the details should be functional! changed, the overall look alters significantly. Choose the eye shape you think best fits the worldview of your drawing.