Posted: Wed, Mar 10 2010 04:19:10 am

((sorry if this is a double post for people who follow me on multiple sites))

Yay its my birthday today this 9th of march x3 I can boast that I have made it to the age of 21 without a broken bone or a needle injection! Thats right.. im not vaccinated and by gods im still alive! LOL I was a home-birth on the 9th of march 1989.
My 21st dosn't really mean much to me as I have been able to drink since the age of 18 and don't much care for it. Its just another year, another minor milestone but one I can celebrate with the people I love

As of my 21st b-day I am officially changing my 'default' fursona/persona/mascot iv always had other forms but the wolf was my oldest and most recognizable. She has existed as my -main- representative for 7 solid years now so this is a huge change for me.
So here we have my new fursona THE WOLFBEAR!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/Cunningfox/stormbearnewside.png This one is cut off because I ran out of paper room (I do that to myself too much x_x ) it is done in watercolor and pencils. Had to touch up the marking in adobe since it came out very un-blue in the scanner.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/Cunningfox/wolfbearfrontal.png This frontal sitting view was colored with markers and pencils, the difference in medium is more noticeable IRL
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/Cunningfox/sleepywolfbearFIN.jpg This one has a scanned lineart and was colored in paint tool sai. I accidentally saved it as a not quite full quality image so its a little blurry.

Why the change? For those of you who know about therianthropy/otherkin this refers directly to my spirituality. Some of you who know me better know that I am a poly-therian, I have more than one spiritual influence/totem and my most dominant (the frequency in which I feel compelled or influenced by on a spiritual and personality level) has been the wolf for many years. Hence the resulting persona to vent emotions through. However bear has become a strong presence for me (as strong as or stronger than the wolf) and I no longer feel complete without that influence there in my artwork of myself.
Thus the combined form is a happy medium I am not a wolfbear otherkin, nothing has changed about my spirituality they are both strong driving forces in my life now. For those of you who don't understand therianthropy lets just say it FITS me far better than just the wolf I don't wish to get into a debate about my spirituality right now.

I know im going to get the few people who MUST associate something I do with something else already existing and be all "GOLDENWOLF DEED EET FURST!!" like I got on the first concept image. As much as I admire Goldenwolf's art I do not want to BE her. This change was long in the coming for me and it feels right, just because someone more well known than me has a wolfbear fursona (may I note hers is a direwolf + bear) dosn't mean I am doing it because she did. People have made wolfbear characters long before she did, they just aren't popular artists.
There are subtle differences in both our designs, the anatomy technical bits will be revealed when I post then to the gallery in a more reference sheet like attempt.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day

ZOMGOD the awesome made me b-day gift art! go luffs on it's cuteness 83


~ Holly