Furries Are Easier to Draw: Difference between revisions

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The other, more common reason may be this trope.

But, oddly, there doesn't seem to be much of an [[Uncanny Valley]] equivalent for animals, let alone [[Cartoon Creature|extremely stylized characters]]. After all, there aren't any [[Funny Animal|Furries]] running around in the real world (at least not to our knowledge). This means that there isn't any right or wrong way to draw cartoon animals, so it's impossible to be close but not quite there.

Also, it tends to help that while artists who limit themselves to humans are very likely to use [[Only Six Faces]], Furries have several additional traits to help tell each other apart, from fur color to ears, tails, paws -- notpaws—not to mention species. As a result, an artist can easily make a [[Cast of Snowflakes]] just by randomizing each character.

In some cases, but not all, this may be due to a [[Lazy Artist]]. Most webcomic artists are amateurs, and thus they do this in their free time. Some of them [[Sturgeon's Law|just can't draw that well]], so they borrow from the more professional [[Furry Comic|Furry Comics]]s as a shortcut. The audience tends to notice the difference in quality. Most art school students run a long, ''long'' gauntlet of figure drawing courses. An appealing human face is indeed one of the hardest damn things in the world to draw -- howeverdraw—however, the rest of said human isn't any harder or easier to draw than any other animal. Many artists go on to create animal characters anyway -- butanyway—but there is a noticeably greater attention to detail from someone who's trained on drawing humans. Furthermore, once you start drawing animals, you understand why you drew so many human figures. We're about as close to a "[[Do-Anything Robot|Do Anything Tetrapod]]" as you can get.

* This is almost certainly why ''Pluggers'' uses furries, since the strip is about Midwestern senior citizens.

* ''[[Coach Random]]'' had some characters drawn as dogs because the artist was under a deadline. [http://coachrandom.zzl.org/Chronological/comic-189.xml In one strip, he has humans and a dog side-by-side, showing the difference in how the artist drew them.]{{Dead link}} His humans are quite detailed. The dog, not so much.

* ''[[VG Cats]]'' -- though—though the artist had no idea what Furries were when he started.

* Pretty much ''the'' reason why many, many cartoon characters were [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]]s during [[The Golden Age of Animation]] when the medium was just getting started. Artists at that time knew how to draw people, sure, but ''animating'' them was a whole other story. Cartoons at the time all shared a very similar art style due to [[Follow the Leader]] and the fact that details were harder and more expensive to work in, so many characters tended to look exactly the same...what helped separate them from the masses were those one or two characteristics (ears, tails, etc.) indicating that X Character was supposed to be a Y Animal.

* As [[Walt Disney]] sought to drastically improve [[Art Evolution|animation quality and standards]] in his cartoons throughout the 1930's and early 40's, this trope became apparent in full force. Far and away the best and most revered Disney animation of the period tends to be either animal characters such as [[Mickey Mouse]], [[Donald Duck]], [[Goofy]], the [[Three Little Pigs]], [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Jiminy Cricket]], [[Dumbo]] and [[Bambi]] or stylized caricatures of humans such as [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|the Seven Dwarfs]].

* Because they found humans to be extremely hard to draw and animate with the technological limitations of the time, most of Pixar's earlier films primarily had either [[Toy Story (franchise)||toys]], [[A Bug's Life|insects]], [[Monsters, Inc.|monsters]], or [[Finding Nemo|fish]] as main characters. It wasn't until 2004's ''[[The Incredibles]]'' that humans became a large part of the characters in their movies ([[Cars|though not always]]).

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