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I checked, and was amazed to not find a similar topic (if there is, I am SO sorry, I might be blind omg). But anyways, how about a comparison? Post a picture of your very first fursona and a picture of your current one! 

I literally never really had fursonas, and all I did was draw random furries, but have the first time I drew Tate VS the last time.

There's not much of a difference, but my style has changed at least a little bit, as well as some updates to his design.

Before:

Tate

After:

ROCK ON (Some Sona Updates!)

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Oh dang I love your art style...

 

As for mine...

There was a lot of minute changes that went along in the design, but they mean a big difference. Ultimately I kept the same basic look with more specific details.

When I first started it was only a basic idea of what I wanted (color-wise), and the name sucked so much

Later I

*Simplified the design, making only the forelegs, back leg, tailtip, both outer ears, and face framing magenta(fuschia/hot pink/what-have-you)

*I eventually gave them a lighter underbelly, light grey/silver

*In anthro I only made the magenta go up to the elbow, in feral it was kept as is

*I ended up darkening the pink a tad

*I added wings, this was based on several factors (I enjoyed the fantastical nature of winged canid art, I dreamt of flying a lot, the maximum ride series was my favorite)

*I gave her black hair

*I changed the name from that mess "wolfxis nightvale" to "Vanna Nyx", nicknamed Van

*I gave them black hair, I kept the flop of hair over the left eye but I made that black too

*I changed the ears to be different colored, one ear black outer pink inner, pink outer black inner

*I gave them grey splotches on their tongue

*I gave them stretchers/gauges, I'd keep it on still but I leave it off most times. It doesn't feel right unless I have them and I've been having trouble keeping up with that

*I started genderbending her for fun...but ultimately I felt the genderbend was more of what I aspired to feel like than the fursona that was an exact showing of myself (a boyish female)...so in the end the genderbend, Vance Nyx became my main fursona, and Vanna Nyx is the genderbend form

*I specified their species type, instead of being just a 'winged wolf', they're now a Florida Black Wolf/Eurasian Griffon hybrid, that alone has a bit of backstory in why I chose it...I don't think you need more info to know I put a lot of thought into this x3

*The last thing I did was change the design, I gave them the 'cape' again, this time dark black, the main fur color was lighter black/darker grey, the underbelly was the lightest still.

*In feral (maybe sometimes anthro) I've added more feathers into the design to make for a more interesting hybrid design rather than what I like to poke fun at as "a wolf with stapled on wings (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18259749/ )

 

My art had gotten much better since, that first abomination is not a representation of my 'sona at all, but some generic wolf with a color scheme I liked thrown together and with bad anatomy and a bad name

 Before:

  http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/WolfX1s-NightV4le-My-Fursona-310062076

In between stages:

http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/Fursona-357152640

http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/Wolf-Knight-396765369

http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/Fursona-ReVANp-407321478

http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/Van-ref-sheet-445984173

http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/Nightflight-461104732

http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/Genderbent-Steampunk-Van-461106541

http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/Genderbent-Van-487473259

http://wolfnightv4x1.deviantart.com/art/Fly-554388080

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18316985/

 

After:

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...still a temporary ref, I just wanted to get the new design worked out, at least

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I always kept the same fursona since early 2009. and initially it wasn't even a fursona per se. I just sort of re-used the character I created for a comic project in high school's art class. I still have the very first sketch I drew in class at the time.

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This is from before I started taking the thing seriously. It actually took a long time before I bothered to do more than just doodling around. But even the sketch alone has improved fortunately!

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As of the lineart, my first experiments with a Copic brush pen are quite encouraging, so I'm going to order good quality sable brushes and ink to do my lineart. I'm hopeless with a tablet anyway. I may do OK with it for the colouring though. I also feel like giving Corel Painter Essentials a try. It's quite painting-oriented, so the result could be interesting.

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The one on the left is Willow from 2008 (not drawn by me) and the one on the right is Willow from 2010. I think I was 13 or 14 when I first drew Willow.

 

 

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and then this is the most recent picture I've drawn of him. his colors are the same, I was just doing a limited palette challenge :P

 

 

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maybe one day I'll update his ref sheet though because I haven't made a new one since 2013.

 

 

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32 minutes ago, willow said:

The one on the left is Willow from 2008 (not drawn by me) and the one on the right is Willow from 2010. I think I was 13 or 14 when I first drew Willow.

 

 

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and then this is the most recent picture I've drawn of him. his colors are the same, I was just doing a limited palette challenge :P

 

 

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maybe one day I'll update his ref sheet though because I haven't made a new one since 2013.

 

 

he used to be pretty steamy. I like that

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1 hour ago, PastryOfApathy said:

First it was like a pink cat thing since I didn't have one and that's what people rolled with. Then I made an "official" one which was just a calico cat since I like cats and couldn't draw muzzles.

Now it's like a green sewer rat thing since I'm a horrible, shameful person.

Rats are the best

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In 2009 I made some generic anime cat thing which I soon scrapped as it was shit and I'm still just as terrible at drawing anime and cats now.

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Then in 2013 I made a bonobo fursona who is quite literally just me but bonobo version, though for creative purposes has had all sorts of backstories aand stuff. Currently is just a run of the mill bonobo in a zoo, not anthro or anything. I kinda have two versions, furry fandom version and just general purposes. I didn't draw this picture it's a lovely commission I had done. During 2013 I had a sloth idea but that never took off.

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I've been trying to draw parrots so I can design a new fursona, a male African grey called Nathaniel. Going to make him anthro and a lover of Hawaiian shirts. But I just need to get bird proportions memorised before I can even think about designing an anthro. When I made the bonobo fursona I didn't have a design for a whole year but I didn't need one because I'm an ape person anyway. The parrot is more of a purely creative venture. 

 

 

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I try not to think about or look at the first drawings I uploaded. But here you go anyway.

First thing I uploaded of Callisto.

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And the most recent SFW one

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Things that changed:

- Her name.

- She got stripes on her back that I've literally never drawn outside of her ref because she's always worn clothes.

- I changed her back story so she was born on Earth instead of having moved there earlier in life.

- She got more piercings as I got them. She began to represent me more over time I guess. But that's really it. The same thing in most ways, just slightly better drawn now.

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Ngh, if only I had a single pic of my character done lately xP I've mostly drawn her in group pics in this last period. Anyway, I think I've undergone some massive changes:

First alter-ego: http://i.imgur.com/ZUw7X09.png
A cat named Fantasy, if I remember correctly: it was the 2005 and still had no internet connection nor I had any idea what furries or anthro characters were, I just liked cartoons. I recall it started as a feral character, so hair and clothing was still all a novelty for me.

First version of current sona: http://i.imgur.com/MdhRQMZ.jpg
2006: I was starting to acknowledge some kind of artstyle called "anthro" and recognized that what I used to draw were anthropomorphic animals, so I decided to get a better alter-ego, and even though I didn't know about the canine overpopulation I chose a wolf. Welp, here's Valy :U
The orange markings aren't used anymore, hairdo and muzzle shape are changed, and I guess the rest of the abominations comes from the fact that I was still dabbling in the whole "art" thing. I remember a schoolmate of mine saying "you know what would be cool? A black wolf character with silver markings here and there", but I opted for earth tones as they looked more pleasing to the eye; little did I know that was a perfect description for an early sparklewolf.

Current version of current sona: http://www.furaffinity.net/full/18321346/
Aaaand she's the one in the background with the green and black striped shirt. Spot the differences!

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  • 2 weeks later...

For the specific purposes of this thread, I did some digging to find the most terrible cringe-worthy shit I could find from when I was 14. And what I found was horrible. I'm at least hoping you can enjoy yourself at my expense because I would quite like to forget this time in my life

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For comparison, my 'sona now:

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7 minutes ago, DrDingo said:

For the specific purposes of this thread, I did some digging to find the most terrible cringe-worthy shit I could find from when I was 14. And what I found was horrible. I'm at least hoping you can enjoy yourself at my expense because I would quite like to forget this time in my life

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Corgi, tea and UK Flag. Could you be any more British?

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3 minutes ago, DrDingo said:

See? You can tell it's a bad drawing because it's meant to be a dingo

Oh shit what have I released upon the world

The first few definitely look like corgis... But then again, I just looked up dingoes and never realised they kind of look like tall corgis. O.o

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My first fursona, ten years ago, was an anthro gold dragon named "Leon Draconiis". I know, lame. I moved on to a toony fox character, then a sergal. About that time I started to put work into my new character's back story. It started as fanficfion/a continuation of Mick39's unfinished novellas, but then, as I got more into scifi and fantasy, morphed into something original. 

Now he's back to being a gold dragon, but this time a feral.

In fact, I now havs two dragon characters, my gold dragon Calemeyr, and my new glacier dragoness Fimbulvetr (which I have a suit of, see my avatar).

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Like I said, appearance-wise not much change. The unseen world of his has changed a lot though, personality revamps a couple of times.

First he was this ignoramus, all about them glows and stupid stuff. Rather vanilla raver type one might say.

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He later had a bit of a breakdown, I experimented with a variety of faults. Went with the oldie look inspired by Lackadaisy.

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Built upon the roaring twenties, and added my fascination to psychology into the mix, and now he's schizophrenic living in a delusion with a touch of dissociative identity disorder to go with. Name change too from Reyzar to Rey since people kept fucking it up as Razor, which is far too edgy.

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And that's Rey as he is today. I've debated ditching the green stripes, but otherwise there's not much indication to tell him apart save for the scar under his eye he inflicted upon himself. At least the stripes don't glow anymore.

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3 minutes ago, PastryOfApathy said:

Go for it, I believe in you!

Seriously though FNAF OC's are awful.

Still don't know if you're being serious.

Actually, believe it or not, I've somehow seen one that's creator actually put work into it.

I'm dumbfounded to this day.

 

 

 

And no it wasn't porn.

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