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Quick Answers: No Tail?

Someone asked me if we draw characters with their tails on or off and the answer is they are usually drawn with their tail on.  The only time we do a separate layer for a tail is if we are going to carry a scene over for multiple panels and we want them to move their tail.

I'm sure of ALL the characters everyone wanted to see, it would be Lawrence without his tail.  lol.  Certainly no other plot would suffice, right?  No?  I'm wrong.  Dang.  

Hope that answered your quick question!  If anyone ever has quick questions, send me a message or feel free to post them in the comments.  I want to make a new feature to this Patreon called "Quick Answers"

Quick Answers: No Tail?

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Thats a good one! We'll answer that!

Very neat! Well I thought of a quick answer. What sort of questions do you guys ask yourselves when developing or designing a background character or oc to fit in your universe?

Indeed! The main basic thing we learn in art school is a character needs to be defined through it's shape, but when all the characters share a basic design for the most part, that makes it difficult. We actually within the past three years gave all the characters different heights, and some are shaped more round or square, but it's still not enough without the mane. Hence we lean heavy into facial emotions as well. :) But you are right, the main different is mane/tail and basic female/male shape or height.

Yeah I definitely have but didn’t want to imagine without hair. Not saying their personality is all in the mane/tail but with basic cartoon characters where that is the majority of detail in them it makes them blank or I don’t know the correct word of it.

It could almost be any-cartoonized four legged creature. They do look strange. Imagine him without mane/hair too.

What is this Eldrazi creature before me? Ironically without the tail… to my eyes they cease to be a pony. It’s like seeing a cat without any fur or bird without feathers. It just looks weird to me.


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