Learn to create amazing kemonomimi with realistic animal features and matching accessories! Long, swishing tails and pointy animal ears or maybe antlers, horns, wings and feathers if you prefer--this is the ultimate furry handbook for manga and anime artists as well as cosplay enthusiasts. Choose your favorite animal then fuse its salient features with a fabulous human form and animal-specific clothing. Shugao shows you how! She teaches you to combine authentic animal details with original fashions to create new and exciting characters. And she provides hundreds of amazing examples, including: A hip-hop horse hybrid with a puffy coat, tousled mane and horseshoe sneakers A goth dobermann girl draped in black satin with a punk hairdo and dog muzzle A not-so-cowardly lion showing off his wild mane and tufted tail A cool cowgirl with a lasso tail and ten-gallon hat that sits atop her horns A long-legged lamb with an eared cap--his fuzzy fleece tied with a bell And hundreds of other fabulous character ideas! Whether you're inspired by furry characters or looking for a way to draw authentic kemonomimi, this is the book you have to get!

With How to Draw Manga Furries, you'll follow the lead of five professional Japanese artists as they show you how to bring dynamic fantasy characters to life--on the page or on screen! Furries are anthropomorphic characters--animals who have human traits (not to be confused with kemonomimi, or humans with some animal features!). They're widely popular in manga, anime and cosplay--from fan favorites like Wolf's Rain and Lackadaisy to the newer Beastars and BNA: Brand New Animal. The genre allows creators to be more imaginative, freeing artists from traditional human personality traits, actions and physical appearance. With the help of the expert authors, you'll learn to draw: Anatomically correct furry manga bodies, skulls, faces, appendages and tails with human proportions Characters based on cats, dogs, wolves, foxes, goats, birds, whales, sharks, crocodiles, dragons--and more! Furries seen from their most powerful perspective--from muzzle to rump to flipper tip Illustrations shown from many various angles with different poses, positions and movements And so much more! With this book as your guide, your imagination will run wild as you create memorable heroes, wicked villains and compelling sidekicks with your pen or on screen. *Recommended for artists 10 & up*