Draw Furries: How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals

good drawing book but I would advise having a basic knowledge of proportion and anatomy for some aspects, essentially for intermediate artists and up

"Anthropomorphic" or humanized animal characters have been around since the dawn of storytelling. In recent years, "furry" characters, a usually cartoon-influenced type of anthro characters, have risen in popularity online. "Draw Furries" is one of the first books to bring this popular art style to the "how to draw" book market.The book covers a decent selection of species for a 128 page book. There are sections on felines, canines, equines, rodents and birds. However it stays fairly generic within the sections, just covering the basics and leaving the further research and details up to you.The only other book I know that covers anthro characters in depth is  Freaks!: How to Draw Fantastic Fantasy Creatures (Fantastic Fantasy Comics) , which a decent book and covers a greater variety of species, but I think this one better represents the standard visual style of "furry" characters, both in design and rendering."Draw Furries" does try to include a decent variety of styles, both more realistic and semi-cartoony, including examples of anime "catgirl" types, which are basically people with animal ears, and full-out animal characters with no human qualities at all.Some of the best tips come after the main instruction. Details like adding extra fur and how to clothe non-human characters are things I wished got even more attention in this book.This book has a few features toward the end that you don't see in most how to draw books; a few pages on coloring, which is nice since it's coming from the authors of the rather good  Digital Manga Workshop: An Artist's Guide to Creating Manga Illustrations on Your Computer , and a couple examples of taking a drawing from concept to final color, which are good since these type of books tend to only focus on characters and ignore setting and background.All in all, this book could be better. But where there are hundreds of books on drawing manga or superheroes, this is only the second book on anthro characters. There's still plenty of room to improve. Hopefully "Draw Furries" will inspire more and better anthro artwork and lead to more and better books.

This book has given my already great drawing ability a boost! This book not only teaches you how to draw different species of furries and animals, but it also goes in depth to the different types of human-animal creatures from plain human to just an average animal. Not only that, but it also teaches you how to transform your plain old artwork into a fantastic work of art with shading, scenery, and facial expressions that will make your drawings seem full of emotion! This is by far the most helpful "How to Draw" books I have ever laid my eyes on. Most drawing books show you step by step how to draw SPECIFIC characters, objects, or landscape. This is not one of those books. This goes far beyond what any of those books could teach COMBINED! This book teached the formation of different creatures. It teaches the bone structure of the creatures showing why they look the way they do. It teaches how small changes in drawing a male or female character can greatly amplify the visual ability to determine the gender difference, even in those as obscure as birds. I would recommend this book without a doubt in my mind to any fellow artists who wish to know more. THIS BOOK HAS IT ALL!

The book itself is nice. The quality of the book, images & information inside is all great, but it's not going to teach you how to draw furries if you aren't already a somewhat experienced drawer. You don't have to be a good drawer for this book to be helpful, you just have to already know the basics of how to draw people, animals, things in 3D. I wouldn't necessarily consider this a tutorial book as much as I'd consider it a book to help you better your drawing skills. Yes it has "step by step" instructions, but it tells you what to do and doesn't break things down individually to show you exactly how to do it. It's general steps that you should already know. I've made a few attempts to draw things using this book and with practice, I'm sure I'll improve, but there's a lot of other examples, tutorials, & other information I've had to use along with this book to get a better understanding of what the book is telling me. Again, the book itself has very useful information and I'll keep it as it'll be useful once I've improved my skills, but if you're just starting out then I'd suggest looking elsewhere or even teaching yourself from stuff you find online first, then use this book to hone your skills.

I purchased this book to aid me in an anthropomorphic comic that I’m illustrating and this book is super helpful. (Comic can be found via my Instagram @gillymarie00 btw)I was scrolling through the reviews, and saw complaints of this book not suiting beginner artists. I honestly thought this book was a little too easy, or slightly below my level. I’m no beginner artist either though, as I’ve been actively drawing for over a decade. So, I can’t really speak on behalf of beginners. But, if I were to recommend a book to artists starting out with drawing furries, I’d definitely recommend this one.

I like that they're almost animals

Great product! good explanations, book with many figures, cover is soft, but good!

Tres bon livre si ont comprend l'anglais (meme si les images parle d'elles meme)

The book is very well detailed on how to illustrate or draw such a character or species. I love.I do not see something I do not like or hate about the book.

人外系イラストの資料本は、日本にはなかなか無いので、こうゆう本が出てるとは嬉しい限りです。海外の資料本だったので、絵柄的にどうかと思いましたが、色々なサイトで検索したりして、中の絵柄が好みだったので購入して見ました。アメリカンコミックス系の絵柄では無く、普通に日本人ウケしそうな絵柄です。カラーイラストとラフイラスト、動きの有るイラストやチビキャラクターにした描き方も載ってるので、内容は充実してます。英語ですが、描き方の過程がラフ画で載ってるので、大体 分かると思います。色々な動物を、人間化して描けるので、面白い１冊だなと思いました。本の作りも丁寧ですし、買って良かったと思います。