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"I am not attacking any one or any single character directly. This was in fact a coming of fury that happened in a conversation away from the computer. If you feel hurt because I mentioned something you use or feel identifies with/resembles your character, don't feel bad. Do something about it or ignore me completely. I'm not going to apologize for it.\r\n\r\nIf you tell me that thing is a lizard, I will call you a liar. That is a dog with a mutated tail, mutilated-to-gone ears and really bad, scaly looking mange. I'm sorry your character has fallen on obviously hard times but that is no reason for it to paint itself some crazy colors and then lie to anyone stupid enough to believe it, which is most people.\r\n\r\nThat thing is about as much a lizard as these are a cobra and a wolf. They are not. If you think they are, then you have not spent more than a moment looking at any of these things.\r\n\r\nI find myself having to purposefully use incorrect anatomy for commissions because I get paid to draw characters with incorrect anatomy in their designs, and while I tweak as much of it as I can to make it as bearably correct as possible, fixing the anatomy would often be SO SEVERE a change that the character would be UNRECOGNIZABLE. And that, my friends, is a glaring problem, not a concoction of style and super awesome design skills.\r\n\r\nDon't give me that \"it's fantasy\" or \"I was trying to design a unique character\" bullshit. You are bastardizing a beautiful form with your undereducated views, and you are not doing it as a wise character choice. ALL reptile anatomy mistakes I see are a result of an artist applying mammalian norms without giving it any thought or a sheer lack of knowledge that could be corrected with 10 minutes running around on google images. \r\n\r\nWhenever I mention anything out of place I am suddenly a villain and an artist will defend their choices to me down to this dream they had that told them they should give their lizard dog legs. I know you are full of shit. Its just embarrassing to be told you are wrong. ESPECIALLY by someone who sees through the \"my style\" and whining bullshit.\r\n\r\nIF YOU WANT TO DRAW A REPTILE, RESEARCH IT A LITTLE FOR FUCK'S SAKE. It's something you should be doing for EVERYTHING you attempt anyway, or else you're just as likely to be fucking up on those as you are to be shitting out some \"artistic vision\" of the inside of a snake's mouth if it wasn't actually the inside of a snake's mouth. References are your friend. Actually knowing what the fuck you are drawing should be an old one by now and if they are not TAKE THEM OUT FOR A FUCKING DRINK.\r\n\r\nHere's more helpful hints. Gecko, python, cobra, and boa are NOT species. They are, to put it basically TYPES of reptiles under which many species exist. Genetic mutations refering to colors and pattern are called \"morphs\" and they don't give a snake whatever. They cause very specific, predetermined variations that you can't just half-assedly bark as an excuse because they are not fantasy. Hemipenes don't stack. No reptile alive has the dull end of a thick sharpie marker for a cock. There is more than one hole in the mouth. Flat, deep split tongues? NOT VERY COMMON. Eyes? NOT CAT EYES. Scales? NOT ROCK LIKE PROTRUSIONS. \r\n\r\nIf you're agreeing with me up til this point and you're waiting for me to bitch about boobs, get the fuck out. If you are making an anthro, it means you are adding human elements to something that is not human. Tits are on humans. Tits are totally acceptable for an anthro reptile. 6 tits and 20 dicks? No what the fuck NO.\r\n\r\nBut what about dragons Skink? What about those? Please bitch about those, I want to feel targeted. No. NEWS ALERT: DRAGONS AREN'T REPTILES. Cry about it all you want, but if dragons are anything, it sure as fuck isn't a reptile. Reptiles are more than being covered in scales. The majority, and I mean MASSIVE majority of dragons don't fit together a single bit like reptiles so I won't open that can of anatomy fail worms here- its bitching best left for elsewhere.\r\n\r\nI know too much about reptiles. I can't even enjoy art of them anymore, because its 99% images that scream nobody really gives a fuck about actual reptiles, just these sexualized, mammalized (and I don't mean HUMANS by that) idea of what reptiles MIGHT be. AUUUGKSDLHGSKLDGKJ /SICKMENSTRUATINGRANT\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t", "description_bbcode_parsed": "I am not attacking any one or any single character directly. This was in fact a coming of fury that happened in a conversation away from the computer. If you feel hurt because I mentioned something you use or feel identifies with/resembles your character, don't feel bad. Do something about it or ignore me completely. I'm not going to apologize for it.

If you tell me that thing is a lizard, I will call you a liar. That is a dog with a mutated tail, mutilated-to-gone ears and really bad, scaly looking mange. I'm sorry your character has fallen on obviously hard times but that is no reason for it to paint itself some crazy colors and then lie to anyone stupid enough to believe it, which is most people.

That thing is about as much a lizard as these are a cobra and a wolf. They are not. If you think they are, then you have not spent more than a moment looking at any of these things.

I find myself having to purposefully use incorrect anatomy for commissions because I get paid to draw characters with incorrect anatomy in their designs, and while I tweak as much of it as I can to make it as bearably correct as possible, fixing the anatomy would often be SO SEVERE a change that the character would be UNRECOGNIZABLE. And that, my friends, is a glaring problem, not a concoction of style and super awesome design skills.

Don't give me that "it's fantasy" or "I was trying to design a unique character" bullshit. You are bastardizing a beautiful form with your undereducated views, and you are not doing it as a wise character choice. ALL reptile anatomy mistakes I see are a result of an artist applying mammalian norms without giving it any thought or a sheer lack of knowledge that could be corrected with 10 minutes running around on google images.

Whenever I mention anything out of place I am suddenly a villain and an artist will defend their choices to me down to this dream they had that told them they should give their lizard dog legs. I know you are full of shit. Its just embarrassing to be told you are wrong. ESPECIALLY by someone who sees through the "my style" and whining bullshit.

IF YOU WANT TO DRAW A REPTILE, RESEARCH IT A LITTLE FOR FUCK'S SAKE. It's something you should be doing for EVERYTHING you attempt anyway, or else you're just as likely to be fucking up on those as you are to be shitting out some "artistic vision" of the inside of a snake's mouth if it wasn't actually the inside of a snake's mouth. References are your friend. Actually knowing what the fuck you are drawing should be an old one by now and if they are not TAKE THEM OUT FOR A FUCKING DRINK.

Here's more helpful hints. Gecko, python, cobra, and boa are NOT species. They are, to put it basically TYPES of reptiles under which many species exist. Genetic mutations refering to colors and pattern are called "morphs" and they don't give a snake whatever. They cause very specific, predetermined variations that you can't just half-assedly bark as an excuse because they are not fantasy. Hemipenes don't stack. No reptile alive has the dull end of a thick sharpie marker for a cock. There is more than one hole in the mouth. Flat, deep split tongues? NOT VERY COMMON. Eyes? NOT CAT EYES. Scales? NOT ROCK LIKE PROTRUSIONS.

If you're agreeing with me up til this point and you're waiting for me to bitch about boobs, get the fuck out. If you are making an anthro, it means you are adding human elements to something that is not human. Tits are on humans. Tits are totally acceptable for an anthro reptile. 6 tits and 20 dicks? No what the fuck NO.

But what about dragons Skink? What about those? Please bitch about those, I want to feel targeted. No. NEWS ALERT: DRAGONS AREN'T REPTILES. Cry about it all you want, but if dragons are anything, it sure as fuck isn't a reptile. Reptiles are more than being covered in scales. The majority, and I mean MASSIVE majority of dragons don't fit together a single bit like reptiles so I won't open that can of anatomy fail worms here- its bitching best left for elsewhere.

I know too much about reptiles. I can't even enjoy art of them anymore, because its 99% images that scream nobody really gives a fuck about actual reptiles, just these sexualized, mammalized (and I don't mean HUMANS by that) idea of what reptiles MIGHT be. AUUUGKSDLHGSKLDGKJ /SICKMENSTRUATINGRANT\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t", "writing": "", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "", "pools_count": 0, "title": "Reptile Characters ", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "image/png", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "2", "rating_name": "Adult", "ratings": [ { "content_tag_id": "4", "name": "Sexual Themes", "description": "Erotic imagery, sexual activity or arousal", "rating_id": "2" } ], "submission_type_id": "1", "type_name": "Picture/Pinup", "guest_block": "f", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "0", "views": "53" }