The Fury Art Trap

I been listening to Clawcast and the subject was furry art. The question came out why we are not seeing fury art break out in to the Contemporary (my addition) Art Museum scene.  As I think about it, the problem with the fury art world is the Fury Art Trap that is one becomes a great furry artist and nothing else. The Fury Art Trap becomes a way of being typecast into a niche.  I see fury art being very simplistic and limiting concentrating on just the human / animal form and not much in the way of background, detail, and interplay with other objects, light and shadow. I feel this way because the last two semesters I had been taking art classes at Portland Community College and been exposed to many different subject from  a ball to a building, life drawing, landscapes and not to just the athro form. Another problem is as I browse some good fury art I rarely see artist putting more detail into their art than the main furry subject or drawing something more than just a furry.  Let me make a challenge here to some very good Christian and other furry artist: you can draw a fox but can you draw me a rose.

As I thought about this in relationship to my goals of become an artist.  I need to make a major change. I do not want just be a fury artist but a good artist that athro is just a part what I am but never the whole. I do not want to be just another GOH or down in the dealers den drawing another con badge. There is so much to art than to limit my art to furry. This doesn’t mean I am going to leave the fandom, heaven forbid, but I may not put much effort to athro as I was planning. I still l lean how to draw athro fox as well as a rose.

P.S. the new semester for art classes starts on Thursday. This will be my third class.