ABOUT MY ART


Inspiration

For as long as I can remember, I've been a fan of media with normal and anthropomorphic animal characters. I have been drawing since I was a little kid. And of course I watched a lot of cartoons / animated movies that fascinated me a lot, which made me start to draw the characters that appeared in them. Some of my favourite films and animated series I started drawing fanart for were for example (screenshots from the movies/series):




  • The foxes of "The animals of Farthing Wood" (TV series)
  • The wolves of UFA's junglebook (TV series)
  • Balto (movie)
  • The Lion King (movie)

Eventually I started creating my own characters and stories (~ since 1999). A few years later I almost completely stopped drawing existing movie characters and concentrated on my own characters and artwork for other people.

Over the years I tried to become more and more professional. Nowadays I'm participating in several projects, both private and public ones, as well as in Art Shows at conventions.



Styles and expressions

I like all kinds of different drawing styles - both realistic and stylized/toony ones. Usually I prefer a nice mix of both - animals with realistic elements such as fur or anatomy, but with "toony" expressions (playing with facial expressions and body language is something I very much enjoy). I guess my drawing style is somewhere in the middle and also varies depending on my mood.

I always prefered anthropomorphic animals that look more animalistic rather than human (digitigrade legs instead of plentigrade, paws instead of hands, mane instead of hair, etc.). I'm also very fond of hybrids (mixed breeds) and their unusual colour variations.

What's also very important to me is the atmosphere, the meaning, the emotion, and/or the story behind a picture. I also love funny pictures with a good joke or pun in it. A simple landscape or an animal's portrait can be beautiful, but it's usually the anthropomorphic touch/expression that fascinates me most.



Digital vs. traditional

I do like both ways of drawing - digitally (with a computer program like Adobe Photoshop), traditionally (with real media on paper), or a mix of both, like drawing the sketch with pencil and then coloring it digitally.

Both ways of coloring have their advantages and disadvantages. For real media, it requires a different knowledge, how to work with a brush for example, how the colors behave (like how long it takes them for drying), and you have a nice original piece of artwork at the end. For digital art, you have way more possibilities to play around with colors, shadings, backgrounds, as you can easily edit them (using layers). You can print it any size, but you don't have an original at the end.

Both ways are fascinating.



"What do you draw?"

I like drawing a large variety of Furry Art, but primarily feral (walking on four legs) and bipedal anthros, mainly canines, felines and hybrids, however I also enjoy drawing dragons and most other furred creatures (there are only few species I am not such a big fan of, like apes, fish, reptiles or birds). My favourite species would be wolves, foxes, snow leopards and opossums. When it comes to backgrounds I prefer natural environments.

I don't really enjoy drawing humans (though I like watching animated movies with humans, including Japanese anime) and technical stuff like machines, robots, engines, cars, etc.