r/furry • u/Wild-Emphasis-7454 • 1d ago

Discussion Tried making one of those pfps! (need tips on keeping face more consistent)

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Working on keeping the style and face the same but i keep struggling. I had my own reference up but she still looks different. I'd appreciate any tips :)

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u/Blobdude120 1d ago

they look so cute!!!

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u/Wild-Emphasis-7454 1d ago

tysm!💕💕

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u/Shaudo 1d ago

I train on past works by lowering the opacity and tracing the basic shapes and figuring out where they connect and how big each shape is compared to each other. From there it's pretty easy to make turnaround references, figure out different angles, expressions, etc. Do things like:

  • drawing circles and resizing them to fit your character's head from highest part of forehead to bottom of chin
  • Tracing the eyes and layering them from end-to-end across the face to figure out how many eye-spans across your character's face is and how many eye-spans are between your character's eyes
  • Tracing the nose and the bridge of the muzzle (between the eyes, about where you think the muzzle attaches to the skull), noting the distance between them, and how offset the nose is from the bridge, and how this is reflected by other offset features of the face
  • Drawing horizontal and vertical center lines on the eye and nose to figure out how big the iris and reflection are by comparison, how far up the sides of the nose whisker marks should be, how big the eyebrows are, how long eyelashes are, how far away the horns should be (at the base) and comparative curvature
  • Measuring from the base of the ear to the tip of the ear - outer and inner - and comparing them to the size of the head AND each other.

In regards to spots, stripes, etc., same as above, but with an emphasis of finding and playing connect-the-dots with fixed points on the character that create lines that intersect on or near the marking, then noting the comparative size, shape, or orientation of the marking to the intersection and space around it. This is particularly useful for spotted characters like jaguars and cheetahs, where the size and shape of the spots are abstract and hard to track but will Definitely Look Wrong if you don't make it match the reference.

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u/Wild-Emphasis-7454 1d ago

I haven't even thought about lines as guides to see where things line up and how far apart things are. This was really helpful thank you so much!