Topic: Question for feral artists: where do you get anatomical reference?

Posted under Art Talk

I want to draw ferals, but I am very much against watching irl bestiality. It is hard to come across good reference for genitals that doesn't involve some sort of health problem too. So how do you do it? Do you just use other art as reference?

oops_all_cookies said:
I want to draw ferals, but I am very much against watching irl bestiality. It is hard to come across good reference for genitals that doesn't involve some sort of health problem too. So how do you do it? Do you just use other art as reference?

... Boy, this is delicate on here given site rules. I'm just going to say "Bing".

oops_all_cookies said:
I want to draw ferals, but I am very much against watching irl bestiality. It is hard to come across good reference for genitals that doesn't involve some sort of health problem too. So how do you do it? Do you just use other art as reference?

For The Most Popular (They have 3D Models!)
https://bad-dragon.com/products/rex
https://bad-dragon.com/products/chanceflared

And for creative ideas to use as launching points for original designs
https://bad-dragon.com/shop

Ironically enough your best bet is from other Feral Artists!
and you're in the right place to find 'em, Dood!
╹‿╹)

Just try Feral Genitals Plus the beast peep your looking
for in particular and you'll find plenty of refs to use for
your work, Dood!
◠‿╹)~★

That's how I've been doing it for my peeps!
◠‿◠)

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votp said:
... Boy, this is delicate on here given site rules. I'm just going to say "Bing".

Yeah, I figured that after posting lmao. I don't want to get anyone banned 😅

notkastar said:
For The Most Popular (They have 3D Models!)
https://bad-dragon.com/products/rex
https://bad-dragon.com/products/chanceflared

And for creative ideas to use as launching points for original designs
https://bad-dragon.com/shop

Ironically enough your best bet is from other Feral Artists!
and you're in the right place to find 'em, Dood!
╹‿╹)

Just try Feral Genitals Plus the beast peep your looking
for in particular and you'll find plenty of refs to use for
your work, Dood!
◠‿╹)~★

That's how I've been doing it for my peeps!
◠‿◠)

post #3062191

Thank you!

oops_all_cookies said:
I want to draw ferals, but I am very much against watching irl bestiality. It is hard to come across good reference for genitals that doesn't involve some sort of health problem too. So how do you do it? Do you just use other art as reference?

Personal opinion ahead
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Just borrow elements you like from other art without worrying too much about if it looks "realistic," and make tweaks along the way to suit your own style. Judging from your favourites you're more into stylised animals than realistic ones anyway.
Very few instances of animal genitalia facilitate sexual function that's appealing to a human viewer as-is in the first place. There's usually a whole lot of size and shape shifting along with ignoring mechanisms relatively common outside humans like retraction, baculum, and being in control of erection-state to some degree.
Add that the majority of furry-fandom discourse on anything to do with animals at all is just straight up wrong already.

I literally just look up furry art under the "anatomically correct" tag and make my judgements there, boom, nothing skeevy in my actual google search history, done.

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