torsdag 25. januar 2024

Thoughts?

"First thought: Googling the name on the signature is wild. I'd been expecting a portfolio like Silverfox5213, or at worst like Ookami Kemono, but the foxbun there is in many ways the complete tonal opposite of this guy's current output.
I say this mostly with a kind of surprised bemusement, but I also seriously doubt buff bara characters, macro/micro, inflation, living pool toys, etc are at all what you'd enjoy seeing, so if you are tempted to google anything then go visit SilverFox's page and pretend that's the artist you stumbled on instead.

As for the piece itself: Interesting hybrid. It does make me wonder about the parentage it implies - red foxes and rabbits don't get along nearly as well as Zootopia fans like to imagine they do. Though I imagine the red fox would be happy with either arrangement.
Still, it's adorable.
Well-drawn, stylized yet still evocative, and uses the linework really well to give a sense of this thing being soft and fluffy. The paintbrush tail is an odd choice, compared to a fox's normal dipstick and a rabbit's vertically divided two-tone (neither of which have any black spots), but it looks cute and I kind of like it anyway.
The ear-browns could also stand to cover more space, though this is just me insisting upon a personal preference - the amount of brown fur on a red fox's ears is a percentage that's difficult to stylize properly, and it also varies between individual foxes, so just the tips like on the bun here does end up as an equally valid choice to the complete brownbacks I'd prefer.
And the most insignificant nitpick of all: The muzzle splotch usually covers a fox's whiskers. Neat that the artist remembered to draw those (most don't), but it is odd to see them displaced like that."


"What I enjoy from your replies is how long they are, how well thought out they are, and the dept of your knowledge. Thank you.

Permission to use your answer for a blog post?" 


"I'm not sure how much there is really blog materal, but go ahead.
Though if you do, I've got one slight correction to offer regarding the muzzle markings: A red fox's whiskers do start at their brown splotch, but the area from which they sprout usually extends out past it and into the white bits of their snout. Saying that it's fully contained in that area, as I did earlier, isn't entirely right.
(And if you want another detail to comment on: The wide blue eyes are a bit of a departure from a red fox's brownish ambers and slit pupils. It does help make the color palette less uniform, though, which is a good bit of artistic license to take.)"


Context: this entire  conversation is a response after I shared a picture with a friend of mine, and I very much wanted to share it (my words are the white on purple). On that note, said picture is what you can see here, and if you'd want more of said artist, here's some links.

https://twitter.com/BlurTheFur/status/709246532189487105

https://inkbunny.net/s/1596321

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/19375352

https://furrynetwork.com/artwork/460905/fox-bunny/

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