Here's an unfinished attempt at copying/doing my version of the attached sexyfur image. I didn't color the eyes or lips because I had spent three, maybe four days doing all this and stopped giving a shit (I also forgot her star on her left eye and her spiked armband).
The goal behind this was to discover shapes and how it was made to "look 3D" in areas. Granted, I'm not a fan of how bernal makes most of his characters with dog snouts, especially since Sasha is a rabbit.I want my style to lean about 35-50% furry (closer to kemono) mostly because I find the more-realistic it gets, the less I find it sexy. As such, I have a few issues I need advice on.
1st thing: Guidelines. I get so freakin' worked up on how to do these right, and when I get everything defined, It looks all the same and annoying to figure out, I tried another copy with a very thin brush and I ended up dealing with the same problem. In addition to line issues, I get process anxiety because I get conflicting info on just how important are the damn guidelines, like some tutorials say that they are just roughs and you can change things up later, while others, "you aren't using your damn guidelines!" and that you should use them as your lineart.
2nd thing: Detail tunnel-vision. I get detail tunnel-vision a lot, some areas I will end up zooming into the pixel-level detail for shit that nobody would see because it bugs the shit out of me, but it's honestly feeling like I'm wasting my time over something so autistic. What could help deal with this?
3rd thing: Shape and lighting. I tried to make it look like there were two spotlights shining on sasha- one on her spread pussy and one on her face. but it's clearly scuffed. I'm starting to comprehend that shadows are what end up defining shape, But detail tunnel-vision isn't helping with this either.
4th thing: comparing myself to others. Okay really. I know, comparison is the thief of joy and I shouldn't be comparing myself for others for my skill level. But fuck. I have a large project that I'm set on doing and trying to get progress done on it just has me judging myself before I barely get my guidelines down and... I'm just tired of not getting shit done because i'm still afraid being clowned on and humilated for my work having obvious flaws that I completely missed. at least the sasha copy has been far-less stressful for me