The Art of Drawing Manga Furries

Chapter 4

SCALIES

SCALY LEVELS

Humanizing a scaly can be a challenge because of the inhuman body shapes of reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Making scalies look natural requires more creativity from the artist, but this also means there is more freedom to create awesome, unique-looking characters!

TURNING UP THE SCALY DIAL

This character changes from 100 percent human to a half scaly-half human character, and finally to a mostly scaly character, with 75 percent of the scaly traits and 25 percent human. You will see the 75- to 25-percent ...