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[egypturnash]

"I have occasionally kicked around the idea of doing a coffee table-style book: The History Of Furry Porn." - ursulav
"Dude. This is a perfect opportunity for a group effort. I think Arphalia and me are going to have to battle it out for the Noveau-era porn..." - me
"(link to glamorous noveau porn drawn a few hours later)" - arphalia
"(draws this)" - me

(excerpted from comments on this friends-only entry in pseudomanitou's LJ)


The Seduction of a Metaphor
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This is the first time I've done a finished piece with outlines in forever. You really have to have outlines to nail the Art Noveau Hair, and having strong outlines printed in a color besides black is also good for a lot of points of Noveauness.

In case you haven't noticed yet, I like raccoons. They're the only kind of critter I have more than one example of as an active character I play on a muck, unless you count the two sequential variations of a crazy butterfly. This does not mean that any girl raccoon I draw is Me, though this one has much the same arrangement of sexual characteristics I do. I have a nicer ass, though.

The sketch started out as a cheetah, for no immediately obvious reason, and got revised into a raccoon. Weird.

(Addendum, May 27: removed from DA. OH NO PORN. *shrug*)

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

It's somewhere in between. Keep in mind that my biggest conscious Nouveau-slightly-Deco influence is Winsdor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland (the strip ran from 1095 to 1914), which was definitely Newspaper Illustration. I'm aware of Mucha's tropes as the Incarnation of Art Nouveau; the only one I really used was the hair. And yeah, it needs more flowers and vines and stuff. I'm just not enough of a plant-lover to really do Nouveau properly. My initial mental image of the big abstract element included more overtly-floral elements, but it got lost somewhere in the process. I don't know if I'll do much more in this method; using outlines feels like a step backwards in my artistic journey, even when they're an integral part of the image's design.

I have this giant tome of the whole strip's run, too giant to really wrestle with to scan excerpts. Someday you will see it, because McCay is, quite possibly, one of the first artists I was conscious of Being Influenced By. Maybe I should throw it into the suitcase when I come out for Anthrocon...

And there is no way I'd do a Bagge rip! I find all his drawings to be ugly, and unpleasant to look at.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Here, I've done a furry parody of Peter Bagge (http://www.conmicro.cx/~kturtle/misc/furrybagge.gif). Now nobody else in the world will ever have to do one!