How many fingers? by ConfusedRaven < Journal | Inkbunny, the Furry Art Community

Mikolai

1 year, 8 months ago

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Honestly, the characters having four fingers does not bother me at all. Since you are on the last Chapter I would leave that alone and keep them with four fingers. Some artist only draw furs with three or four toes too which is not surprising with how much they draw. :)

Your characters are cute / adorable the way they are. Looking forward to the reading the rest of your series. ^^

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ Mikolai

Yeah, starting the last chapter is a good reason to stay the same as before... maybe... if it's ever get a continuation in the future...

Autumnbear

1 year, 8 months ago

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I know a lot of people, even higher-tier artists, that exclusively draw 4 fingered hands. Don't stress it bud, honestly. People crying about perfect realism are ignoring the fact we all draw cartoon animals that wear clothes and drive cars. <3

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ Autumnbear

Don't worry, I don't stress it too much, just want to be curious about my audience's opinion. Hand are the part of the body, that can make look a character very unnatural - much more than having animal heads and genitals.

I think much bigger changes happened in the design of this comic, so I'm just collecting pros and cons.

chenzhou

1 year, 8 months ago

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Four fingers is fine, as long as one of your characters can still flip the middle one up the readers'll understand just fine what you meant. Now get back to drawing more sexy horse mom! :) https://inkbunny.net/s/2707116

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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Edited 1 year, 8 months ago by Owner

@ chenzhou

Yup, four finger furs still have a middle one :D

https://inkbunny.net/s/2364954

Nitro89

1 year, 8 months ago

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Naaa draw like you want. It won't bother me

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ Nitro89

Thanks, I don't know why I thought it is that important. Reading the replies make me feel it's just a little detail.

Klorsis

1 year, 8 months ago

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The entire reason Disney and Warner toons generally have 4 fingers and 3 toes is time savings. It ads up quick especially when your redrawing the characters multiple times.

It doesn’t bug me either way

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ Klorsis

I have some other tricks too, like drawing some items or poses so their hands just "accidentally" not appearing on the picture.... :D

AbiOrionsson

1 year, 8 months ago

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Isn't it normal to see only 4 fingers on anthropomorphic characters in comics anyway?

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ AbiOrionsson

I thought there are more people who don't like it. Maybe they not even following me because of that reason, so there were no one to tell an opposite opinion. :D

Thaddeus

1 year, 8 months ago

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I'm fine with four fingered characters. What's important is that it looks natural, and it does on your characters.

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ Thaddeus

Then maybe I attached greater importance to that detail as I should.

tailgat

1 year, 8 months ago

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having non-human traits in anthropomorphics is perfectly fine. tails, limbs, horns, wings, you name it;

here, https://inkbunny.net/s/2923060 the next-to-last panel is perfect with hooves and hindpaws.

so, having non-human paws make your characters more convincing than not; please, go on like this and

👅 👅 👅 those five-fingered hyoooomans with no imagination or fantasy.

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ tailgat

Yeah, legs are another question, but even I would be bothered to changing to human like legs. So that will not happen for sure.

ArcturusLight

1 year, 8 months ago

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Change from 4 to 5 would not bother me. Inconsistently switching between 4 and 5 might XD. When seen from afar, or the image is otherwise too small you shouldn't worry tho, tis a common trope to conserve detail.
All my characters, humanoid or not, have 4 toes and fingers in-universe, but I am often forced to draw paws with 3 when the drawing is too small to fit 4 on the nub.

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ ArcturusLight

"	ArcturusLight wrote:
	Change from 4 to 5 would not bother me. Inconsistently switching between 4 and 5 might XD.

Understandable, that's a reason I asked

Tomeyoung

1 year, 8 months ago

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I didn’t even realise that your characters had 4 fingered hands and I’ve been reading your comic since it first arrived on E6, I don’t mind if you switch to 5 fingers, although maybe for the stake of consistency, it’s probably best to stick with 4 fingers, but at the end of day it’s up to you

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ Tomeyoung

Surprise surprise :D
Based on the feedbacks here probably I will stick with 4 fingers.

mudpaws

1 year, 8 months ago

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I don't care , you have some very nice and cute comics , looks fine by me .

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ mudpaws

Thanks, then I will stick with what I used to draw. :)

mudpaws

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ ConfusedRaven

Yup keep up the great art , 🎨

CampionL

1 year, 8 months ago

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My father was killed by a 6-fingered man. If I find him, I will walk him to him and say, "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ CampionL

Stop saying that! ;)

MrCoyote

1 year, 8 months ago

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I don't think it's an important detail, I usually pay more attention to: facial expressions, drawing style, character construction, not being a copy of other characters with different colors, their crotches, the coherence of their actions when relating to others, etc.

I can't really give you an opinion about a technical matter like the amount of fingers when you have characters as interesting as Dave's parents adjusting to their son's adolescence, or the amount of detail you put into the backgrounds.

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ MrCoyote

Well, reading the majority of opinions here, it was just some minor detail, what nobody cared about.... well, the question is answered, probably I have a unique sense to spotlight the things nobody interested in. XD

v91Alpakka

1 year, 8 months ago

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Four is fine! If you can do five without it looking weird, then go for it. Otherwise four is more than enough.

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ v91Alpakka

Thanks for the feedback, reading the answers here, I will likely stick with four.

VictorLeason

1 year, 8 months ago

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I didn't notice it, neither bothers me

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ VictorLeason

Thanks for the feedback :) 4 remains for now

Fanthrose

1 year, 8 months ago

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I...honestly never noticed to begin with, so if you make the change, it really wouldn't bother me.

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ Fanthrose

Thanks. :)
Why did I thought it's such a big deal? :D

Wetsock

1 year, 8 months ago

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I honestly didn't even notice xD

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ Wetsock

Okay, then nothing will change ;)
Thanks for the reply.

ba1

1 year, 8 months ago

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Hehe, I never noticed the change, I think 4 fingers works better in a cartoon atmosphere like this one.

Have you ever seen Gravity Falls? Some characters have 5 fingers, some have 4 and one even has 6. That was just the way it was.

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ ba1

Well I didn't, but I looked up some pictures, and I can see what you mean. Well, my style is quite cartoon like, maybe that's the reason it's not so weird.

dgtdgt

1 year, 8 months ago

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Until you pointed it out I never even noticed.

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ dgtdgt

Well, then let's pretend this journal doesn't exist. xD
Thanks for the feedback.

KennetAgnon

1 year, 8 months ago

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Four fingers is a cartoon norm as when they drew 5 people would say the hands looked like a bunch of banana's
So does not bother 90% of people as they are used to it and the other 10% can be jerks but you have to remember that only the top 10% or less of artists are able to draw 5 finger hands well enough for them to look natural

ConfusedRaven

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ KennetAgnon

Yeah, probably it's pointless to force it without a reason. Thanks for the reply :)

KennetAgnon

1 year, 8 months ago

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@ ConfusedRaven

by cartoons i mean the big toons on TV we grew up with, Scoobydoo Yogi etc etc all the humans had 4 fingers