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Now here's a guy who's not going to have to worry about his social life. He's going to be very popular when people see him walking around as an anthropomorphic skunk. Hopefully I'll be able to get away before he learns how to make a stink, moreso that he won't think to take his shorts off before trying to. Although those claws... Never knew that skunks had digging claws before I researched them. Those would probably hurt. :worry:

In all seriousness, this is my first tf (transformation) art. I'm a fan of the stuff, and frequently visit Transfur as well as check out the monthly updates at Foxx's Transformation Art (neither linked to due to some amount of adult-oriented art). My own art will probably always be comparatively tame, though, as you can tell by this skunk wearing shorts. This is a remake of this picture here, and this guy isn't non-human enough to be excempt from the human decency rule. This is for albinoshadow's "How much have you improved?" project. [link] The rules are, people interested remake old pictures, using the same characters in the same poses. I think I fit that criteria, don't you? He is in fact the same character, and he is in fact in the same pose. But when I went looking through my backlog, the old picture had "transformation art" written all over it. I actually was thinking of putting him this early in the TF, but I figured that the furthur along he was, the better chance I'll get away with him being the same guy. Though now that it's finished, he's not as far along as I had thought he would be, and the transformation isn't quite as apparant as I had hoped. But just look at it this way: not only has my art improved, but I'm able to take it a half-step furthur than before. :bounce: By the way, it should be noted that the original picture was drawn roughly two years ago.

I started off by drawing him as a complete human, and then I added little bits and pieces of the transformation in progress (both WIP phases at [link] ). I had a heck of a time getting his face and hair right. I was trying to picture a guy with a rough angry voice. This guy's voice looks like it might be not as rough. I've apparently become more concerned about symmetry since the last frontal shot I've drawn. A lot of time wasted because I tried making the right eye be a perfect mirror-image of the left one. Finally I just said "skrew it" and winged it. I think I did better once I stopped worrying about it. The feet were also hard, mainly because I was trying to draw those small toes. My first coloring attempt was a disaster (also in the scraps), but I had previously scanned the lineart before coloring, so it wasn't a total loss. I decided afterwards that making the fur look a bit more gradual would look better than it being a sudden edge of the growing fur. Unlike most of my pictures, this is a little bigger than actual size, to prevent too much detail loss.

Regarding TFs, some are smooth, others like this are less even. I like the less even look, since you can guage what he looked like before the TF a bit better. There's also the occasional painful TF. I won't be doing those. There's nothing wrong with a little pain, but you'll never see my future TFd characters in anguish (should I draw any). TFs should be fun, and I indeed did have fun making this happen. This guy is probably just angry I didn't turn him into something less akward like a wolf, instead. Hey, it could've been worse. ;)

Human lineart took about 4 hours (nearly half due to trouble with head and starting over)
Alterations took 45 minutes, lineart darkening 26 (counted separate due to original lineart not being darkened)
Coloring took 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Hmm, imagine being changed over a 45-minute period. And this guy isn't even finished.
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AmethystLightning's avatar
I think he's cute! ._.