This is for art purposes (no acronym intended), so no creepy comments.

Whenever I first draw them, they look like either hot dogs or baseball bats with a baseball cap at the tip, and I know penises don't look like those. Also whether flaccid or erect, they're often tilted left or right, seldom the center (and rarely if it uses foreshortening); and it's like those tilts are only showing one ball.

What are your tips and tricks when drawing the male genitalia?

AlexYorim said:
This is for art purposes (no acronym intended), so no creepy comments.

Whenever I first draw them, they look like either hot dogs or baseball bats with a baseball cap at the tip, and I know penises don't look like those. Also whether flaccid or erect, they're often tilted left or right, seldom the center (and rarely if it uses foreshortening); and it's like those tilts are only showing one ball.

What are your tips and tricks when drawing the male genitalia?

References.

What lonewolf said, references or maybe a life model. Either way you're going to have to study that penis.

Commit 100% of your day studying that penis. Become one with the penis.

But seriously, use references and practice.

look at pics of real dicks. compare what is different between the dicks you draw and the dicks in pics. fix accordingly.

referencing

I LOVE staring at dick pics

Thanks. I should also remind myself to erase any unnecessary lines on whatever medium when the rendering is finished-finished.

Okay, related topic: In traditional art, how do you draw a penis with a condom on?

AlexYorim said:
Thanks. I should also remind myself to erase any unnecessary lines on whatever medium when the rendering is finished-finished.

Okay, related topic: In traditional art, how do you draw a penis with a condom on?

Since the shape of what you're drawing doesn't really change when you put a condom on a penis (aside from the reservoir at the tip), the change is in color and/or value. You have a piece of translucent material covering opaque flesh, so it helps to study a little about how colors interact and how that latex or lambskin or whatever is going to appear with the skin color showing through it.

For example, a bright red condom on a purple-red canine penis will have some color change, but not as much as a bright red condom on the Hulk. (Red and green are complimentary colors and neutralize each other as a result.)

The other thing you have to think of is value, which is essentially the light and dark of a color. Think pink versus red or gray versus black. If you put an uncolored condom on any color penis, the result will be lighter in value than the uncovered skin.

With all that in mind, when I'm working in watercolor, I have to think of the skin color, condom color, and how the two interact. Usually (unless the condom is black), the value will end up lighter.

Then it's just a matter of knowing my medium well enough to make the paints do what I want them to.

Just remember to study and reference differend kinds of dicks. I see so many artists who pretty much copy and paste similar looking dicks to all of the differend kind of characters they draw - then some also make the characters look like same species even when they are supposed to be differend species.

With SFM this is more obvious because you have to use models available and it gets annoying when you start to see exact models that everyone is using, but with drawings you aren't restricted by that.

Mairo said:
Just remember to study and reference differend kinds of dicks. I see so many artists who pretty much copy and paste similar looking dicks to all of the differend kind of characters they draw - then some also make the characters look like same species even when they are supposed to be differend species.

I cannot agree more with this statement. Learn your craft. Hone it. Get good! There's so much crummy artwork out there that after awhile, it starts to all look the same.

Twenty years ago, furry artists paid attention to things like anatomy, furgonomics, how clothing would fit or be designed differently when you've got ears and a tail. To me, the artists who stand out are the ones who do that.

When I see an artist who can't even draw a penis, who hides behind shallow thinking like "it's not real, so I can do whatever I want," I don't want to commission that person or give them my money. Artists who master that stuff are the ones who can charge hundreds for their work and make a customer feel like they're getting their money's worth.

Artwork is work precisely because it takes time and effort to get good at it. Invest that. Dive in.

My opinion.

AlexYorim said:
Okay, related topic: In traditional art, how do you draw a penis with a condom on?

same as before: use references. look what real dicks with condom look like.

Lifehacks are odd items/actions which produce a substantial improvement/enhancement. So for drawing penises, I'd have to say buy one of those clear CBT crushing plates, flatten your penis as much as you can, then use tracing paper. You can achieve lifelike appearance and shape with low drawing skills while not copying someone else's work.

You take it out, then draw around it.

Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtCRqKll51U