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Syrel
@syrelnumal.bsky.social
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Bi furry, fledgling artist, video game and TTRPG lover. Retired from IT career.

He/Him, 40.
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Quick sketchy hand study with pencil brushes. It's amazing how much easier hands are when you use a reference picture but I keep hoping someday it will percolate into my brain to just free draw hand.
Hand study of an anthro animal's clawed hand. The fingers are all twisted around the palm. The fur is orange and the paw pads are a light pink while the claws are grey.
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I tried a bunch of shading things, didn't like how they turned out, and ended up doing it something in more of my comfort/usual method. Still, the practice was fun, this is just my favorite character to draw so I can't let him down.

#furryart #furry #cheetah
Half-body digital art portrait of a male anthro cheetah stands with arms folded across the middle of his torso. He has short red hair, blue eyes, and standard cheetah pattern and coloring except for a streak of red fur up the middle of his chest.
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Quick (well about 2hrs but that's still quick for me) flat color chee sketch. I want to play with fur brushes to try to render this later. I'm also trying to practice more poses, particularly with arms/hands. Front view is still my safe spaces for faces.

#cheetah #furry #furryart #sketch
Upper body flat color sketch of an anthro cheetah male. He has blue eyes, has crossed arms, and one slightly lowered ear. He has short red hair and a red stripe of fur in the middle of his chest, as well as an overall slender bodytype.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Finished sketch from earlier, I tried hard for me things with this like kneeling poses and rear head angles, so I'm pleased with what I was able to do even though I didn't get it quite right. Two slaves pray in a secret temple to the god of light for deliverance.

#furry #furryart #scalie #cheetah
Rear view of an anthro cheetah and lizardman slaves kneeling in front of an altar to the tiger god of light praying for deliverance from their situation. A ray of light comes down from the sky to illuminate them. A chalice and candle and bowl of fruit are on a silvery altar emblazoned with a golden sun.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Me: I want to draw butts. No.. I need to make the butts arty or something.

So I came up with this sketch of poor slave boys praying for deliverance in a secret shrine to the god of justice. I'm sure future me will not regret trying a snout from this angle. I like the concept at least.
Rough sketch of anthro lizard and feline in loincloths kneeling in front of an altar with a sun symbol and the lower half of a picture of a figure in armor with a cloak and sword.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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And here's the procreate replay if anyone cares.
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Finished up, I have lost all objectivity and sanity. It's extra hard to work on something you liked the sketch of, like I'm disappointing the imaginary hot man if I don't draw him right. Clearly the answer is to draw more hot furry men until I get it right.

#furry #furryart #anubis #jackal
An anthro jackal Anubis reclines provocatively on a couch, one arm out to his side along the backrest and the other behind his head. He is dressed in a simple Egyptian loincloth and fancy golden jewelry.
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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After browsing for furry artwork to use in my gesture practice exercises because drawing furry men is more exciting than human ones, I remembered Anubis is really hot and so I decided to try to make my own hot Anubis. Still WIP.

#furry #furryart #anubis #jackal
Flat color sketch of a male anthro jackal Anubis reclining across an egyptian cough while posing attractively for the viewer. He is in a traditional egyptian loincloth and is wearing some golden jewelry including an ankh in his chest. The background remains an extremely rough sketch.
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Made an Anubis, he turned out a little more feline than I was intending. Managed to do it without looking at references until I was done with the sketching and lineart, which is exciting for me. Today I tried more cel/anime shading style, haven't settled on firm style yet

#furry #furryart #anubis
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Worked on a lion gladiator boy, I wanted to try a fluffy white mane but I think in general I need to practice a new shading technique for very light colors. I'm sure it's fine to just fight things in basically no armor and a loincloth.

#furry #furryart #lion
A slender anthro lion male with a fluffy light colored mane stands in a ready pose in a coliseum, dual wielding daggers. Aside from some minimal armor which doesn't cover his vital points, he's just wearing a white and red loincloth.
October 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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A very messy replay of the above
October 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Tried to redo my mostly-sona, Syrel, in painting. Then I redid everything like 5 times so it's sort of a hybrid between painting and some digital shading. I may have spent too long on this and gone insane.

#furry #scalie #furryart #dragon
Profile headshot of a red and gold scaled anthro dragon, Syrel, against a cloudy sky. He has several small horns and different scale patterns, and a glowing amber eye. His mouth is slightly open in a smile showing lots of small teeth The scales and background are painted digitally and shading was rendered atop them.
October 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Replay of the above.
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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More digital oil painting practice time. I actually sketched the head without a reference and thought it looked like a nice cheetah which is a milestone, I can feel myself improving over time.

#furry #furryart #cheetah
Digital oil painting headshot profile of an anthro cheetah male smiling. He has bright blue eyes and tufts of red hair.
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Procreate replay of the above. Either I spend forever on lineart and sketching or somehow I shade super fast.
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Melvis is one of High Justicar Ferro's trusted younger guards, a fox archer who doesn't scare easy and is serious when time calls for it. Unfortunately he's also a trickster who thinks the cheetah thief boy Ferro is chasing is fun to flirt with too.

#furry #furryart #fox
An anthro fox archer looks backwards at the viewer, holding his longbow casually in one outstretched hand while the other is on his hip. A quiver of white wood arrows is on his back, and he wears a blue and green jerkin. He's standing outside in lush wilderness with mountains in the distance.
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Replay of the above. Apparently I took so long on the cheetah that the background just appears by magic at the end.
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I did more oil painting practice off an anatomy ref and made Aion, the Dragon-God of Fire, whose preferred humanoid form is a golden-spotted red cheetah. As lover, warrior, and artist, he's an inspiration to many and good eye-candy besides in that tiny loincloth.

#furry #furryart #cheetah
Digital oil painting of Aion, a fiery red cheetah with golden spots and an orange belly. He's holding a quarterstaff along his side while minimally dressed in a tiny white loincloth with leather straps. He has silver jewelry on his wrists and around his neck
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Here's the replay of the above. I guess 'you will see a bare butt in the middle' is a warning?
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I haven't had the creativity to come up with new art pieces so for practice I went back to 'take an anatomy reference picture of a human guy and furrify it'. Or in this case scalie-fy it?

#furry #furryart #scalie #lizardman
Bronze scaled lizardman from behind, holding a sword in his right hand and channeling a magic spell creating a blue glow in his left. A small red loincloth is attached by a leather strap to a silver loop around his tailbase
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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And in the replay you can see me fiddle around with stuff for a long time. I didn't end up using the flat color layer and instead did a layer of oil paint under the primary layer to fill holes but the replay likes to fixate on the earlier bits.
September 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Decided to do another practice piece this one of a wolf's torso. Didn't use a reference other than my standard generic sketchy ideal male body one then played with oil paints. You can't see all of him but this is my wolf Krenn.

#furry #furryart #wolf
Digital oil painting of an anthro male red wolf's torso, with red primary fur, a pale yellow secondary, and orange shocks of fur.
September 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I didn't draw anything yesterday and I still don't have an idea for a new full piece but I wanted to practice. So my brain's like 'you should draw butts'. So uh.. I did? In two ways.

No active sex or anything but there are some dangly bits on one so..

#furry #furryart #cheetah #butt
Cel shaded drawing of a cheetah from behind focused on the butt. His tail is raised and off to the side and you can see his balls dangling down between his legs. Digital oil painting of a cheetah's butt from behind, his tail lowered behind him to angle down along and block part of the view of his right leg.
September 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Here's the replay of the above, it gets weird because I resize the thing repeatedly since paint does not work at smaller canvas sizes.
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Tried digital painting something today for the first time seriously with the new Procreate brushes. I just sort of fiddled and had no clue what I was doing, but it was fun and I kind of like how it turned out. Turns out I like lions when they're slender boys.

#furry #furryart #lion
Digital painting of a young anthro lion male gladiator, wearing very limited metal armor that shows off the majority of his fur. He's got a slender build, dual wielding daggers, and he's standing at the ready with the walls of the coliseum behind him.
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM