I say “new” but it’s more like just lurking for about 6 or so months after my “furry awakening.” I’ve sort of just experimented since that point but only ever lurked in communities such as this

I just don’t know how or where to get started? The furry community is vast and ever growing, but with no artistic ability I genuinely don’t know how to come up with a fursona or where to draw (pardon the pun) inspired from

At this point, all I have is a species that just resonates with me and not much more

So, how did all of you get started when you first realized you were a furry and/or decided to create a fursona and such?

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    (BTW people on pawb.social, Yiffit is having federation issues at the moment, see https://yiffit.net/post/732797 for all the responses)

    I’ve had interests in certain… Parts of the fandom for a while, but only recently engaged with it “proper” recently. Basicaly, when Reddit was collapsing I went to Lemmy and signed up for Beehaw… And then drama started happening and I figured “hey, I’ve been interested in furry for a while, might as well just join the furry instance”, and here I am. So I guess I’ve been officially a furry since 27 June this year. I have sinced moved my Mastodon over to furry.engineer and am… Honestly a bit overwhelmed by the amount of furry content that I see.

    I just wish circumstances in my life were better, and I had gotten involved when I was in my early twenties, or had the confidence to try things like Second Life or VRChat. Oh well, no point crying over a life misspent.

    Oh yeah, I know this likely isn’t what you meant, but don’t feel obligated to make a fursona. If you want to, go for it, but it isn’t required to “be” a furry.

    For my 'sona, I started with a wolf because… Well, that’s the name I use for everything and I like them as animals. I then kinda… Took some fox bits because I liked them and became a wolf/fox hybrid. A few months ago I then also added mightyena (from pokemon) into the pot because I liked how they looked. It’s now such a mix of different things and ideas that I might as well consider it my own custom species.

    Recently though, I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been experimenting with how it looks, beacuse I’ve been more involved in furry or just general changes in my life, it’s just felt… “Right” imagining myself as my sona. It’s messy and clunky, but that’s… Kinda who I am as a person.

    I also have the issue where I have this mental image, but beyond pixel art I don’t really have artistic abilities to put it down on paper. I also am deathly afraid of comissioning people and besides, I don’t know where to start without a reference. My writing abilities are… Passible I think, so I may put some written descriptions at !oc_appreciation@yiffit.net I guess as a way to put things out of my head and in a physical form.

    • BOLOID@pawb.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know where to start without a reference

      You can put together what’s called a mood board: a collection of pictures that are relevant to the concept. This species, these clothes, here’s a few pictures that give off the right vibes, this is the sort of house that they would live in, this is what they would drive, here’s a fictional character or someone else’s fursona that kinda has the right esthetic, etc

      Just spending time curating this collection is pretty satisfying on its own, but then you can show this moodboard to an artist when you get your first commission, and they’ll have a decent idea. And that will be kinda the first visualization, and you can go from there.