Draw Furries: How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals

by Lindsay Cibos-Hodges, Jared Hodges

Winner of the 2009 Ursa Major Award, the Annual Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Awards.

How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals
What do you get when you cross a human with a horse (or a hamster, or a hummingbird)? You get any one of a number of fun anthropomorphic animals, also known as "furries" to their friends. From facial expressions to creative coloring, this book contains all the know-how you need to create anthropomorphic cat, dog, horse, rodent and bird characters.
Step by step, you'll learn how
Packed with tons of inspiration - from teeny-bopper bunnies and yorky glamour queens to Ninja squirrels and lion kings - Draw Furries will help you create a world of crazy, cool characters just waiting to burst out of your imagination.

Genres: Art, Drawing, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 2009

Reviews

[Pipper]

Gosh, this is amazing. This is a great book if you want to know how to draw just bodies. This is Draw Furries: How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals, the book on how to create Furries! I got this a year ago on my birthday, I've always wanted it because I love animals. I really learned a lot from this book, and I can read it any time of day. Its also fun for me and great for my drawing habits haha. I would recommend this book to people who love animals and drawing. Anyway, Draw Furries is a great book to read and learn from. In conclusion, this book is heat for anyone with likes drawing animals or humans.

[Red · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty cover with very basic things inside of it, it's not very beginner friendly and it relies on people having at least a grasp on human anatomy. Even though it looks like it might be colorful and for children it's definitely not, it's very staple for early furry community works. So for people who want to actually understand how to merge human and animal traits to make furries and build off of that.

I wouldn't say it's a bad book to have as part of your collection, especially in the early 2000s when furry drawing books were very limited in supply and it was a very new thing to the world. This was definitely something to have then, but it's not really something you need now in the 2020s. You can find better instructions on Google than you could ever find in one of these old 2000s books.

I would say get it if you really want to have something from this timeline, anything of Lindsay Cibos' work is very 2000s time capsule feeling. It's a snapshot of a different time that we no longer live in.

If you like collecting things that belong in a time capsule, this is for you.

But I believe you can grow and draw with just Google and YouTube video guides that are on the internet, and you don't need to spend money on this book. I've seen it get a little bit pricey because it's not in print anymore as far as I know so don't spend your money on it if you don't really want to commit to it.

A dated product of its time. But not awful.

[Ixby Wuff · Rating 4 out of 5]

How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animal

What do you get when you cross a human with a horse (or a hamster, or a hummingbird)? You get any one of a number of fun anthropomorphic animals, also known as -furries- to their friends. From facial expressions to creative coloring, this book contains all the know-how you need to create anthropomorphic cat, dog, horse, rodent and bird characters.

Step by step, you'll learn how to:

Draw species-appropriate tails, eyes, wings and other fun details

Give your characters clothes, poses and personalities

Create the perfect backgrounds for your furry antics--with two start-to-finish demonstrations showing how

Packed with tons of inspiration--from teeny-bopper bunnies and yorky glamour queens to Ninja squirrels and lion kings-- Draw Furries will help you create a world of crazy, cool characters just waiting to burst out of your imagination.

[Alicia Balliett · Rating 3 out of 5]

To a point it is helpful. I feel that the artist should have gone into more detail about certain things.

[Clinton Browning · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good starter book, but not a lot of detail for the starting artist. Good suggestions but considered poor lessons from peers I’ve spoken with.

[Mew Clawfur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good book with useful tips for furry art. The art itself is very beautiful as well. I always obsessively reread this as a kid and it's fun to reread again.

[Suzanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jared Hodges and Lindsay Cibos give fun step by step instructions on drawing furries. They start with a brief introduction covering such items as how human- or animal-like you want your characters to be, body proportions, and gender differences. Subsequent chapters deal with separate animal families such as felines, canines, and equines. Every lesson starts by showing how to draw the face using circles and guidelines to determine where to put eyes, mouth, nose, and ears. Details are then refined and guidelines erased before adding color and hair. Drawing the full body is then covered, once again showing pencil sketches starting from the basic shapes to adding final details including clothing and hair and ending with the finished figure complete with color. The authors give many examples of the different aspects of each animal family, among them tails, ears, and teeth. Each chapter section Morphology deals with how animal-specific you want your character. Two examples are shown - the first being mainly human-looking with a few animal features as fluffy, pointed ears and a tail and the second mostly animal-like with human details such as facial expressions and being bipedal.

Sorry if my review sounds pedantic, but this is a really fun book to look at even if you don't plan on becoming the next great furry artist. Hodges and Cibos make learning how to draw look easy with their line sketches and all, and their use of color is amazing and vibrant. Even if you don't want to draw furries at all, this book would still give good tips on drawing humans or animals. My artwork usually looks not much better than a child's scrawling, but I'm tempted to give it another try after reading this book.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great instructional read for the artist in anyone!

I got this book as a birthday present to further my drawing skills in fantasy creatures, and I couldn't be more pleased. Lindsay Cibos does a great job in covering Furry fantasy creatures and their different anatomies, advising techniques to further your skill in even more genres of art. I'd recommend this book to anyone, beginner or otherwise, who wants to eventually master drawing fantasy art in a wide range of styles.

Despite being a book on drawing the fantasy characters, the Author still takes the time to brief the reader on one, two, and three-point perspective, and how to place characters in the right perspective of the background scene.

This book really performed more than the title promised, covering every basic need of a fantasy artist and not just the characters.

[Jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's pretty good. Shows a decent variety of styles. Good if you have some experience drawing, but are new to drawing furries. My main complaint is the step by step process tends to skip steps. It isn't all bad since it filling in the blanks on your own can help you progress, but it can be a bit frustrating

[Lonely Panda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting for anthropomorphic drawings but it was not that much detailed and missed important coloring advices

[Nicholas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked it. Could have gone into a little more detail for how to draw the species. But an overall good book!

[Jony · Rating 2 out of 5]

drawings are very very anatomically incorrect...

[Kayla21]

Good Helped alot ^^