If this method doesn't work for you some other alternatives are: - Doing everything traditionally on paper (I recommend making a digital colour pallete still!!) - Printing out the reference sheet lines and colouring them physically - Commissioning an artist with a thorough description of your character (not all artists will work from just descriptions though) - Buying a character from someone - Using a "fursona maker" app - Asking a close friend whom is an artist very very very very nicely for some help - Request an artist whom has publicly stated they are open for request
Just saying, as an artist, working with printed out and colored references is totally fine! As long as there is SOMETHING to help the artist visualize your character in your eyes!
An extra note for the uploading process: WATERMARK WATERMARK WATERMARK We are not a perfect community. Theft occurs. Watermark with a user to reach you at or any sort of watermark to show you own the character. Save the file you make it on to show the layers or if you by, take screenshots of the purchase.
@@talkingtomfan581 if the image was not made as a free to use base, dont color it at all, even if you credit the artist. There's free bases out there if you look and always double check. Google isn't reliable with it so click the website the image comes from. If you got a free base and for some reason the lines are blurry, then you can fix them in needed but make sure you're using a good base first!
@@oceanthecat1009 and thats why you get proof that you got the original, sich as keeping it on your desktop to have acces to all layers if someone does not believe you
@@Caineedssleep Only use four? *Laughs in canvas and paint, pencil, sharpies, pen and paper, ibispaint x user human skin, soapstone, animal hide and walls*
You know, when I first heard the term "fursona", as a weeb, I instantly related it to "persona" which, is an AWESOME game, but, when I heard fursona, my brain just grabbed these both and thought " Holy sh*t, werewolves are fursona users" And, my mind, broke all that down, and it turned into a werewolf dating Sim with some battle in mind. I can't believe how far I was at the start, and how close and accurate it was at the end...
There are two types of people: -Those who suck at drawing but know how to use sophisticated programs -And those that are amazing at drawing but don't even know how to change brush size
I'm sort of in between. I can draw okay, and I use an app on my ipad, but I don't understand how people use stuff like photoshop to draw really cool things
Okay so this video was great but the best part was the "shift-control-i" HOLY HECK. It takes me so long to colour inside the lines and constantly clean up, you will be saving me hours of work for the rest of my life
Like a lot of people who speak American English don’t realise that in different places they speak different dialects that have different spellings as they say ‘color’ but in other places that speak English they might use colour or colouring.
Me: *sees the thumbnail* hey that looks like garurumon *few mins later* OMG pocari likes digimon! Another reason to love this beautiful person! In all seriousness thanks for all of the great vids and helpful tips. Keep it up Pocari!
6 years into the fandom now and I still haven’t gotten to the idea of drawing my sona until I saw this video when it first aired, months later I’m making progress on a shepherd.
Very nice and helpful Thou lacking 1 method.. printing it out and colouring it in to take to artist xD if someone (like me xD ) have no artsy skills whatsoever
Ahh. Getting nostalgia from this! This is the first furry video i watched at age 7,you helped me make my first Fursona, sadly that sparkle doggo isnt with me anymore, but in honor of rewatching this video, ill draw him from memory, you helped me figure myself out, and now i am Mr Pickles, the demon dog, thanks pocari!! You rly made this dog into what they are today! Love your videos, ps, You are my inspiration and ilysm!!!
Yes this is very helpful for drawing my sona. I had to make multiple drawings for my wings and tail due to the non symmetrical patterning of the feathers
I don't have a job yet, because I'm kind of young, oof, so I don't have enough money for a cool fancy drawing tablet that hooks to my computer, but I use my phone to draw. I have a really good program called Autodesk Sketchbook, and I just take a picture of my sketch, and draw over it with my finger in the program. It might take a while to get used to, because you have to try and avoid shaky lines, although there are tools that help balance them out into neat, smooth lines. I thought that this might be helpful to those who don't have a computer or drawing tablet.
Im also a youngfur and my phone to draw but I use drawshow to draw... My phone has a stylus that I can put into it... So it looks a bit better but I still love drawshow it's great and I think you ppl should check it out
Quick appreciation comment for people who make free to use bases. You guys are so generous, and help out sooooo many beginner artists and furries. Thank you guys.
If you use procreate like me there’s a layer option called “reference layer” set that on your lineart and then if you use the color drop under your lineart it will fill in the lineart ^^ and if you use alpha lock you can only color on the place you colored
Thank you so much Im sorta new to the fandom and I love drawing but I've always had a hard time drawing and making animals. Im sorta going thro so stuff atm so its hard but you've helped me out quite abit so thank you so much, can't wait to see your next video.. UwU
This is bringing me back to being 12 years old on deviantART back on the late 2000 s. I'm a professional artist now, and seeing people keep the tradition of passing down knowledge and skills in the community is so incredibly inspiring ❤
Great tutorial Pocari, I'm currently using the same ref sheet that you used in the vid for a base for my fursona (which I'm sort of just making up as I go along) and even though my fursona is a wolf this reference sheet is definetly a great start thank you Pocari :)
I gave up on attempting to make a character around 3 years ago due to my lack of drawingskills but this video explained it so well that i think i could actually create my own character i've had stuck in my head in lines, colours and fluff. (owo) Thank you so much and i'll keep watching all your vids since i never comment on them but been watching since just before you started your bottle episodes.
I have been in the fandom for 289 days, and I have had so much trouble finding my fursona. I have made 100+ oc's and ugh it's just to much! Recently I came across the manokits and just fell in love! See, I have been drawing sence I could hold a pencil, and I cant explain how much stress I had trying to draw a manokit! I honestly still cant draw one, and am afraid to go on Google to look for inspiration because I will feel less proud of myself if I do go on Google. I already have a name for her, and a fur pattern, but I just can't draw her! I just hope I wont call her my fursona, get bored with her ina few days, and forget about her. I have always done that. With every single OC I have made. That's why I cant find my fursona 😪 sorry for wasting your time on my rambling about my stress.
Dude, I would never have enough patience to do everything with a mouse. You get all my respect 😔👊. Sidenote; It's my birthday on the 16th, and I'm getting a drawing tablet, so... 👀👀👀👀😌😌😌😌
this just helped me make my fursona yay. im new in all things fur and since i had a tiny bit of skill from drawing a few years back from hand it wasnt too hard to use the tools to edit the reference and even draw things from scratch like her accessories. I love how it turned out! hopefully soon i can get a badge commission with my reference sheet. ill be making my suit myself cuz im an overachiever and im going all in lol wish me luck
I already have a fursona/main oc and their rival/counterpart,(plan to have a fewmore)but I'm still watching this,Pocari! I need to make a reference sheet for both of them still,I have their color schemes pretty much all sorted out.
Some things I’d like to add, medibang and firealpaca are great programs to use on the computer! (Or medibang on a phone) I also recommend using large canvases (like 3000*3000) with a dpi of 300. Larger canvases will have better resolution!
Samalamb Bases on DeviantArt makes really great bases, but they aren't for reference sheets. Also! For those who don't have tolerance for their magic wand tool, simply go to the 'select' tab and expand the selection by around 3-7 pixels!
I actually (read: sadly) use a mouse for my art and boy howdy it's a bit difficult. Luckily, tools like the undo button, stabilizers on pens, the smudge tool and transformer tools exist. Though I'm pretty proud of my art rn, it's still clear what the limitations are. Things like line thickness variation, painting-style coloring or shading, and identical shapes (without copy+pasting) are extremely hard to pull off P.S. don't look at my UA-cam to see what my art looks like that's old stuff. All my current stuff is on my instagram
My style of art takes HOURS to draw stuff because I’m not good at holding a mental picture cus of ADHD, but i kinda think what i do is a respectable way of getting help. It’s looking at shapes of the things i want to draw tracing them, then changing them after getting the basic idea down. It works most of the time and isn’t stolen because stealing is copying the exact thing and drawing over it . Mine is getting the basic shape down, editing it, then drawing over it.
I'm asking after it because I'm kinda interested in doing some art for people. I watched this video and realized how many people out want someone else's interpretation, and it made me remember being a broke lil bean. So I feel that life and I wanna do art for people
for free art programs I would recommend Krita and for paid ones I would recommend Clip Studio Paint. you can get it on sale and get the Pro version for $25.
Iam really happy that iam improving in art and i hope I can be improving a whole lot more i use ibis paint X for right now Thx for more suggestions of art apps ive started on paper some good tips that I'll use Edit: I used your tip and used furfinitty and made a new fursona i dont know what his name should be now Stargazer or something else any other suggestions? I used Stargazer
*me aggressively searching stuff becouse I want a new fursona cause i dont like my last one* I think I understand *five seconds later as i try to draw it well watching * I have no idea what I'm doing. On a serious note. This really helped me. I'm trying to sketch some ideas and this is helping me get an understand of what to do
One day I was bored and decided to draw fursona. So I drew it in a corner of notebook, took picture of it and then traced lines in Autodesk SketchBook app (in another layer, like you showed). I knew it was not good but I was proud of myself because I don't know how to draw nor ever tried drawing anything similar. Btw, I never watched any tutorial before and was trying to be completely original. Hope you understood everything
good way to get a fursona if you have no idea to design/draw, view high quality furry adopts from people and buy those (that's how I got my hyena fursona, love her alot)
The music in the beggining still spooks me because your the only youtuber I know about that has louder vids than 2% volumetric forms (my phone suggested that volume was spelt like volumetric so I have no idea if it's what I thought it was)
i just started watching pocari again after MONTHS and MONTHS and when the theme song came on in the beginning a wave of nostalgia hit me outta no where 😭😭
Color pallets also help yourself draw with the exact colors so even if you aren't planning to commission the color pallete is really nice. Trust me I had to learn that the hard way :"V
As someone who took three years of Graphic Design and Commercial Graphic Design in high school, two years of GD with a year of CGD between, I cannot stress enough how helpful a drawing tablet is. On a related but different note: this is very helpful for me, who can't draw an organic shape to save my life.
Also i wanna point out that art isn’t the only things games with OCS factory’s and such can be a BIG help since they give you the option of literally almost everything you could want for it
Your videos are great x3 But for me the hardest part is actually designing the fursona / character.. The design, colors, shapes and patterns. Especially with my fursona, I want her to suit me well and I don't know how to do that
![I tried fully furring a Dino mask into a fursuit head 😬 [The Bottle Ep✨100✨]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lO4jenL7R2M/mqdefault.jpg)
![I tried fully furring a Dino mask into a fursuit head 😬 [The Bottle Ep✨100✨]](/img/tr.png)
![MAKING A FURSUIT from random things around the house 😵 [The Bottle ep86]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/J6zJrcjusTY/mqdefault.jpg)
If this method doesn't work for you some other alternatives are:
- Doing everything traditionally on paper (I recommend making a digital colour pallete still!!)
- Printing out the reference sheet lines and colouring them physically
- Commissioning an artist with a thorough description of your character (not all artists will work from just descriptions though)
- Buying a character from someone
- Using a "fursona maker" app
- Asking a close friend whom is an artist very very very very nicely for some help
- Request an artist whom has publicly stated they are open for request
Just saying, as an artist, working with printed out and colored references is totally fine! As long as there is SOMETHING to help the artist visualize your character in your eyes!
Thanks, im probably going to commission someone to draw my ref once I save up some money!
When you commission something is it free
@@topnotchcupoftea nope it usually costs some money
@@christinataylor1380 I hope it's not expensive
No one:
Pocari`s eyes: ⬆️⬅️↖️↘️↗️⬇️↙️↩⤴️
lol
@crazex • 12 years ago or maybe from literal kindergarten
Me during a conversation:
@@dartthenightlight3840 same lol
she playing dance dance revolution with her eyes
*has like 50 OCs *
HMMMMM Making another one won't hurt
Papa Jay Same...(though I've got over a hundred ocs) :( I need help lol
Me with gemsonas
I can easily relate. [me:has like athousand ocs] | Me another day : " Hey, making another oc wont hurt wont it.."
Leo The Cat what is a gemsona?
Steven Universe’s fandom’s versions of themselves as gems or just ocs in general. So same thing with fursonas and such.
Me, chest deep in the fandom with Fursonas already: I already know this but I gotta supPORT POCARI!
Cupids-Antlers S A M E
Sad but I can relate
Exactly.
Im over my head in the furry fandom
i also like port pocar
An extra note for the uploading process:
WATERMARK WATERMARK WATERMARK
We are not a perfect community. Theft occurs. Watermark with a user to reach you at or any sort of watermark to show you own the character. Save the file you make it on to show the layers or if you by, take screenshots of the purchase.
Shyla Good sadly, people can still just get the image and trace over it and color over the watermark :(
i feel like i am being called out
what if your computer makes the image blurry, are you allowed to draw around the outline then colour, even if you credit the artist
@@talkingtomfan581 if the image was not made as a free to use base, dont color it at all, even if you credit the artist. There's free bases out there if you look and always double check. Google isn't reliable with it so click the website the image comes from.
If you got a free base and for some reason the lines are blurry, then you can fix them in needed but make sure you're using a good base first!
@@oceanthecat1009 and thats why you get proof that you got the original, sich as keeping it on your desktop to have acces to all layers if someone does not believe you
*that moment when you realize when you were 8 years old you traced someone's art thinking it was fine*
wait isn't that illegal
*Wait. That's illegal.*
Galacsii I was 8
@@demonplaysuwu1018 Oh no, I know that. It's a meme.
Woooosh.
SAME HERE! And I ended that phase at 10 years
It's not illegal but it can bring up copyright issues if you make money off of it
"No art skill required"
Me with negative art skill: H E C C
W h e e z e
I can draw a little bit of anime, but only the head and the neck, not even of furries.
Nobody:
Not a single person:
Roo:**Throws camera into pool**
Ha bakugos a furry
He would be a lion
Tru tru
Deku would be a doggo
He'd be a alligator (bc how dat hair) a love bird (bc of the personality) AND a dragon (bc of his power or hair I guess)
1. Step to draw a fursona:
Know how to hold a damn pencil.
Lol I cant even do that
Directions were unclear, my cat is in a oven
@@jaceybear4124 wha- oh teah i jate it when that happens
Directions unclear just ate my T.V
Directions unclear, made a fursuit head.
me: has possibly too many fursonas
also me,watching this: interesting
macchigato how many do u have?
@@dragonfire8873 he have "too"
I have so many fursonas its crazy but I’m gonna stick with my fursona Moon :3
Dragon Fire one
I have 10 or 11
Pocari, as a fellow cheese lover, I’d just like to point out that you missed an opportunity to name him Shreddar XD
I'm french cheese is my life
shredda chedda cheese
my tips for drawing fursonas:
1. draw a basic outline on paper
2. put in on an art app and trace it, it’s easier
3. colour in
UwU
Who asked
Probably everyone in this viduo 😂
1:19
Roo: **talks about art programs**
Me:
*Laughs in paper and pencil*
Y’all pencil and paper?
*laughs in ibs paint x user*
@@Hottesthernando Ya'll just use one?
*laughs in canvas and paint, pencil and paper, and ibispait x user*
@@BlueSovarysie you only use three?
*laughs in canvas and paint, pencil and paper, ibis paint x user, and procreate*
@@Caineedssleep Only use four?
*Laughs in canvas and paint, pencil, sharpies, pen and paper, ibispaint x user human skin, soapstone, animal hide and walls*
I would suggest ibisPaint for phone
Just saying
Yep
Yeah it’s great!!
I love using ibispaint
Yep
same, it's pretty much the best app I know when it comes to picking a drawing app for phone.
Me: I have two furaonas and 25 characters
Also me: I have to support Pocari because I love watching the bottle :O
Dat me
@@obsiangravel you're now his wife, wish completed
You know, when I first heard the term "fursona", as a weeb, I instantly related it to "persona" which, is an AWESOME game, but, when I heard fursona, my brain just grabbed these both and thought
" Holy sh*t, werewolves are fursona users"
And, my mind, broke all that down, and it turned into a werewolf dating Sim with some battle in mind.
I can't believe how far I was at the start, and how close and accurate it was at the end...
Galaxy brain
There are two types of people:
-Those who suck at drawing but know how to use sophisticated programs
-And those that are amazing at drawing but don't even know how to change brush size
I probably be the first one
I'm sort of in between. I can draw okay, and I use an app on my ipad, but I don't understand how people use stuff like photoshop to draw really cool things
Okay so this video was great but the best part was the "shift-control-i" HOLY HECK. It takes me so long to colour inside the lines and constantly clean up, you will be saving me hours of work for the rest of my life
4:06 Damn, Pocari didn't have to T-Pose on us like that. 😔
?
Kat n Tabby it’s a meme
Wit-
7:23 i always get attacked for spelling "Colouring" too, its not my fault im canadian XD
Like a lot of people who speak American English don’t realise that in different places they speak different dialects that have different spellings as they say ‘color’ but in other places that speak English they might use colour or colouring.
It's how we say it in Britain too
As an American, this has always confused me and I say both “color” and “colour”
SAME!! Even my friends and classmates attack me and I’m like guys... we’re Canadian...
I live in new zealand and we spell it colour and I always get attacked by americans >~
"Just take an artist and *Throw Some Money At Them-"*
I'm gonna draw this now
Me: *sees the thumbnail* hey that looks like garurumon
*few mins later* OMG pocari likes digimon! Another reason to love this beautiful person!
In all seriousness thanks for all of the great vids and helpful tips. Keep it up Pocari!
Lol same! I thought the same thing.
Saaammme
Hello fellow moth !
@@katelynjones5646 Greetings have you any lamps to spare
@@mothnerd6460 yes got one for Christmas.
A good free art software is Krita; It works on PC and Mac, and has similar features as Photoshop, as well as pre-made brushes.
6 years into the fandom now and I still haven’t gotten to the idea of drawing my sona until I saw this video when it first aired, months later I’m making progress on a shepherd.
this is actually a very good tutorial. Ive seen others that dont explain well but this one is very good! 10/10!
me: *makes a furry character*
also me: "another fine addition to my collection"
Very nice and helpful
Thou lacking 1 method.. printing it out and colouring it in to take to artist xD if someone (like me xD ) have no artsy skills whatsoever
Do I want a new oc? No. Have I been a digital artist making ocs for 3 years now? Yeah. Am I still watching this all of the way through? You betcha
You see someone tracing.
You can't do that! It's iwegal, you silly wittle goose!!!!
You veyuwated the law!!!
you’re gowing 2 jawle!!!!
owowowowowo its the powiceee
Wos angewes powice depawtment! Open up uwu
FBI OPWEN UP!
Ahh. Getting nostalgia from this! This is the first furry video i watched at age 7,you helped me make my first Fursona, sadly that sparkle doggo isnt with me anymore, but in honor of rewatching this video, ill draw him from memory, you helped me figure myself out, and now i am Mr Pickles, the demon dog, thanks pocari!! You rly made this dog into what they are today! Love your videos, ps, You are my inspiration and ilysm!!!
I made really much fursona's and i loved and maded lot of art requests
Yes this is very helpful for drawing my sona. I had to make multiple drawings for my wings and tail due to the non symmetrical patterning of the feathers
I don't have a job yet, because I'm kind of young, oof, so I don't have enough money for a cool fancy drawing tablet that hooks to my computer, but I use my phone to draw. I have a really good program called Autodesk Sketchbook, and I just take a picture of my sketch, and draw over it with my finger in the program. It might take a while to get used to, because you have to try and avoid shaky lines, although there are tools that help balance them out into neat, smooth lines. I thought that this might be helpful to those who don't have a computer or drawing tablet.
Im also a youngfur and my phone to draw but I use drawshow to draw... My phone has a stylus that I can put into it... So it looks a bit better but I still love drawshow it's great and I think you ppl should check it out
I also use autodesk!
I have Autodesk Sketchbook too! :D
I use paper
*BECAUSE I CAN'T DRAW WELL AT ALL ON ELECTRONICS*
The fact that Digimon was in here makes me so happy 🥺
Omg I’m quaking thank you Pocari I had no clue how the magic wand worked
This is really helpful.
I use Medibang Paint Pro.
Humble Marty I use the normal version, haven’t met many people who use Medibang Paint/Paint Pro! :)
I use krita
Yeah no one asked...
3:51. You put my art to shame.... this is fabulous! -derpy-
Medibang Paint Pro is simple as well! It is free and has a whole other side once you get good!
Thank you, I have been looking for a high quality clear video on creating a fursona. Great job ^.^
I have made many references in my day, but I still wanted to watch this... Gotta support the roo
FireAlpaca is the best free art program I have ever seen
Oh I love it, onion skin mode is the best to make little animations or fifs!
What about Krita?
@@thatfatdogesunday1095why my skin?
@@curlyandfried mmm onion ;)
@@thatfatdogesunday1095 *suprised pikachu face* how DARE you
Quick appreciation comment for people who make free to use bases. You guys are so generous, and help out sooooo many beginner artists and furries. Thank you guys.
In firealpaca you dont need to use the magic wand to fill it in, even if you're on a different layer
This was super helpful for someone with some traditional art skills but never having tried digital art. Thank you!
Thank you! This helped a lot! I'm still figuring out my fursona... So thanks!
(Hope you feel better soon!)
If you use procreate like me there’s a layer option called “reference layer” set that on your lineart and then if you use the color drop under your lineart it will fill in the lineart ^^ and if you use alpha lock you can only color on the place you colored
Thank you so much
Im sorta new to the fandom and I love drawing but I've always had a hard time drawing and making animals. Im sorta going thro so stuff atm so its hard but you've helped me out quite abit so thank you so much, can't wait to see your next video..
UwU
This is bringing me back to being 12 years old on deviantART back on the late 2000 s. I'm a professional artist now, and seeing people keep the tradition of passing down knowledge and skills in the community is so incredibly inspiring ❤
Great tutorial Pocari, I'm currently using the same ref sheet that you used in the vid for a base for my fursona (which I'm sort of just making up as I go along) and even though my fursona is a wolf this reference sheet is definetly a great start thank you Pocari :)
I gave up on attempting to make a character around 3 years ago due to my lack of drawingskills but this video explained it so well that i think i could actually create my own character i've had stuck in my head in lines, colours and fluff. (owo)
Thank you so much and i'll keep watching all your vids since i never comment on them but been watching since just before you started your bottle episodes.
I have been in the fandom for 289 days, and I have had so much trouble finding my fursona. I have made 100+ oc's and ugh it's just to much! Recently I came across the manokits and just fell in love! See, I have been drawing sence I could hold a pencil, and I cant explain how much stress I had trying to draw a manokit! I honestly still cant draw one, and am afraid to go on Google to look for inspiration because I will feel less proud of myself if I do go on Google. I already have a name for her, and a fur pattern, but I just can't draw her! I just hope I wont call her my fursona, get bored with her ina few days, and forget about her. I have always done that. With every single OC I have made. That's why I cant find my fursona 😪 sorry for wasting your time on my rambling about my stress.
Omg for so long I've been trying to figure out how to select the lines and draw only on the inside this helps me so freaking much aAAAA
Dude, I would never have enough patience to do everything with a mouse. You get all my respect 😔👊.
Sidenote; It's my birthday on the 16th, and I'm getting a drawing tablet, so... 👀👀👀👀😌😌😌😌
Thanks for the tips! Im new at drawing furs and i hope to make my scalie fursona beautiful!!
"No art skill required"
press X to doubt
Yup.
Shake the Joy-con to doubt harder.
guy person XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Many Xs later...) I show doubt.
guy person X
X
Ughh!!! This helped sooo muchhh not even just making fursonas! Like digital art in general!🖤🖤
OMG I LOVE THE FURSONA YOU MADE!!!!
I’m a huge fan of you and a young, and knew furry!
This helped a lot!
I am too! I joined this year :3.
this just helped me make my fursona yay. im new in all things fur and since i had a tiny bit of skill from drawing a few years back from hand it wasnt too hard to use the tools to edit the reference and even draw things from scratch like her accessories. I love how it turned out! hopefully soon i can get a badge commission with my reference sheet. ill be making my suit myself cuz im an overachiever and im going all in lol wish me luck
I actually used this sheet to make a front facing reference for my fursona
I already have a fursona/main oc and their rival/counterpart,(plan to have a fewmore)but I'm still watching this,Pocari! I need to make a reference sheet for both of them still,I have their color schemes pretty much all sorted out.
Great video! Another art program that is good and free is Gimp! I used Gimp when making my lovely Fido Bloo
Ahh gimp, I used that for ages before I found sai! But it's a bit intimidating to those super new to digital art, I think paint.net is a good intro
This helped alot with me being a noob at anything art related and makes everything so much easier
Some things I’d like to add, medibang and firealpaca are great programs to use on the computer! (Or medibang on a phone) I also recommend using large canvases (like 3000*3000) with a dpi of 300. Larger canvases will have better resolution!
This fursona came out great
Me: **knowing I have to many ocs**
Pocari: MAKE A NEW FURSONA
Me: *EEEEEHHHH. OKAY. STARTS SHOVING TOGETHER FURSUIT*
so glad paint.net is getting the recognition it deserves
Samalamb Bases on DeviantArt makes really great bases, but they aren't for reference sheets.
Also! For those who don't have tolerance for their magic wand tool, simply go to the 'select' tab and expand the selection by around 3-7 pixels!
Instead of magic wand, you can also use the bucket too to add the base color, then press clipping on the layers above.
I actually (read: sadly) use a mouse for my art and boy howdy it's a bit difficult. Luckily, tools like the undo button, stabilizers on pens, the smudge tool and transformer tools exist. Though I'm pretty proud of my art rn, it's still clear what the limitations are. Things like line thickness variation, painting-style coloring or shading, and identical shapes (without copy+pasting) are extremely hard to pull off
P.S. don't look at my UA-cam to see what my art looks like that's old stuff. All my current stuff is on my instagram
I still went on to ur channel to see what it looked like. GOOD JOB!
@@AwesomepuppygirlHolt aw thanks but please find my new stuff before judging me :D
My style of art takes HOURS to draw stuff because I’m not good at holding a mental picture cus of ADHD, but i kinda think what i do is a respectable way of getting help. It’s looking at shapes of the things i want to draw tracing them, then changing them after getting the basic idea down. It works most of the time and isn’t stolen because stealing is copying the exact thing and drawing over it . Mine is getting the basic shape down, editing it, then drawing over it.
what if you have an original species of your own creation but horrid art skill?
What sort of species?
@@hannahkemarly6089 it started as just a hybrid but then I gave it a backstory, some unique genes and abilities
@@valanshard2105 That sounds pretty cool. I'd like to hear more about it
@@hannahkemarly6089 well, I haven't released it yet but once I do you can find me on furry amino @ RogueRaven
I really appreciate your interest
I'm asking after it because I'm kinda interested in doing some art for people. I watched this video and realized how many people out want someone else's interpretation, and it made me remember being a broke lil bean. So I feel that life and I wanna do art for people
for free art programs I would recommend Krita and for paid ones I would recommend Clip Studio Paint. you can get it on sale and get the Pro version for $25.
Iam really happy that iam improving in art and i hope I can be improving a whole lot more i use ibis paint X for right now Thx for more suggestions of art apps ive started on paper some good tips that I'll use
Edit: I used your tip and used furfinitty and made a new fursona i dont know what his name should be now Stargazer or something else any other suggestions? I used Stargazer
I don't need sleep, I need art!
Thanks for sharing your tips!
Me: Must focus on what is going on.
Also me: WHAT IS THE HEAD GONNA DO NEXT?!
HELP IM DROWNING WHILE WATCHING THIS NOT FROM THE WATER BUT FROM THE AMAZINGNESS
My art work program: a peice of *paper* im too poor for a pc and i cant draw with a finger
*me aggressively searching stuff becouse I want a new fursona cause i dont like my last one* I think I understand
*five seconds later as i try to draw it well watching * I have no idea what I'm doing.
On a serious note. This really helped me. I'm trying to sketch some ideas and this is helping me get an understand of what to do
Ey that background music sounded suspiciously like Hyper Potions and it was lol
One day I was bored and decided to draw fursona. So I drew it in a corner of notebook, took picture of it and then traced lines in Autodesk SketchBook app (in another layer, like you showed). I knew it was not good but I was proud of myself because I don't know how to draw nor ever tried drawing anything similar. Btw, I never watched any tutorial before and was trying to be completely original. Hope you understood everything
Refsheet.net is also a very good site to share and keep track of your characters! ^^
intro is SO CLEAN
good way to get a fursona if you have no idea to design/draw,
view high quality furry adopts from people and buy those (that's how I got my hyena fursona, love her alot)
Gotta agree with your comment that's I'm always thinking
thx for the information Pocari, I'm new to this stuff and I'm looking forward to making my fursona look good
Here starts my Furry life.
Gotta make Fursona, thanks for Guide!
Great job working hard on this video Pocari! U put quite a bit of good effort into this Bottle episode.
Me who can't draw:
Help meh
It's amazing to watch a simple stick figure turn into an amazing drawing
On mobile use ibis paint x it good
The music in the beggining still spooks me because your the only youtuber I know about that has louder vids than 2% volumetric forms (my phone suggested that volume was spelt like volumetric so I have no idea if it's what I thought it was)
i just started watching pocari again after MONTHS and MONTHS and when the theme song came on in the beginning a wave of nostalgia hit me outta no where 😭😭
*when you can’t draw animals*
Color pallets also help yourself draw with the exact colors so even if you aren't planning to commission the color pallete is really nice.
Trust me I had to learn that the hard way :"V
As someone who took three years of Graphic Design and Commercial Graphic Design in high school, two years of GD with a year of CGD between, I cannot stress enough how helpful a drawing tablet is. On a related but different note: this is very helpful for me, who can't draw an organic shape to save my life.
Also i wanna point out that art isn’t the only things games with OCS factory’s and such can be a BIG help since they give you the option of literally almost everything you could want for it
I can't believe I never thought of using the magic wand for that! Great work Pocari!
My sona is a Butterbeer sodaroo, and yeah! As u were the very first UA-cam fur who inspired me. I love roos and most of the Australian animals
Your videos are great x3
But for me the hardest part is actually designing the fursona / character.. The design, colors, shapes and patterns. Especially with my fursona, I want her to suit me well and I don't know how to do that
Oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one in Australia who likes this sort of stuff!
Hiii! I'm new to this stuff, I was at Walmart and found a fox mask with the jaw and now I'm HOOKED