I think it was a guy on PoE-News who called furry art "mostly portraiture." He meant that critically, but it might of been the nicest thing said about furry on that site. I don't see the problem, really; a furry work may emphasize cuteness, but it sometimes pays to remember that "cuteness" is not a negative attribute.
This is the one area where a little prurient interest is a good thing; furries need to extend there storytelling skills beyond "blah blah blah, then they have sex!" but visually, the question of what constitutes "sexually attractive" is where furry sometimes takes off and really becomes art, to me.
Of course, it often just "becomes" straight to porn, but I could sell furry pin-ups as art if I had to. Shoot, if I were under the old interview gun, sitting down with a reporter and going through the latest vixen thread on the /f/ board of fchan and discussing which ones I liked and which ones I didn't would probably not be to bad an idea; at the very least, it would be honest.
I think it was a guy on PoE-News who called furry art "mostly portraiture." He meant that critically, but it might of been the nicest thing said about furry on that site. I don't see the problem, really; a furry work may emphasize cuteness, but it sometimes pays to remember that "cuteness" is not a negative attribute.
This is the one area where a little prurient interest is a good thing; furries need to extend there storytelling skills beyond "blah blah blah, then they have sex!" but visually, the question of what constitutes "sexually attractive" is where furry sometimes takes off and really becomes art, to me.
Of course, it often just "becomes" straight to porn, but I could sell furry pin-ups as art if I had to. Shoot, if I were under the old interview gun, sitting down with a reporter and going through the latest vixen thread on the /f/ board of fchan and discussing which ones I liked and which ones I didn't would probably not be to bad an idea; at the very least, it would be honest.