Flint, the weasel warrior

An anthro RP over on the RP board in the forums caught my eye, as it was actually interesting, unlike 98% of the RPs that go on there. I am toying with the idea of joining, and while I was thinking about it, I decided to doodle up a character. Being the unimaginative person that I am, I fell back on Flint the weasel; my very first anthro character, my very first RP character, and my first foray into the online world (Redwall MUCK, way back in 6th grade).

I was a kid back then. I didn't know anything, and I'm sure I was a lousy RPer. I'm still amused to realize that my first character was a guy - all of my subsequent furry characters have been female.

I remember that when I first started out, Flint wore a cloak and weilded a sword. After a while, I noticed that most other characters were clothed, so I added clothes. People would also describe their characters as having 'headfur', which confused me terribly because I could not conceive of a weasel or a mouse or a badger with hair. To this day, I am still skeptical of furries with headfur. If you look back at the picture of Cyan in my gallery, I think I mention that she's the first anthro that I've drawn with headfur, and that's because it was a request.

Anywho, back to the picture at hand. I decided to really reach back to my roots, and draw Flint without any clothing at all. I did leave the sword, because he has always been a warrior, and I added a baldric so that he doesn't have to carry the sword around in his handpaw all the time. I bent the knees backward, which is something that I've never done with my anthros. I figured that without clothing, I may as well make him as animal-like as possible. This was supposed to be a 10-minute doodle, but I suddenly learned that I can actually draw with my tablet (yeah, I'm so lame - I tried when I first got the tablet, drew a horrible picture, and then never tried again - guess my control improved), so it turned into an hour-long project. Sleep? What's that? :P

Anyway, I think this came out quite nicely, and it might lead me to drawing more on the computer. I'm really quite excited by this. Heh, if you've read all of this blather, I'm quite impressed! Still, I must make one more rant.

How is it that in the Furries category listings, there are options for insects and cows, but none for any type of mustelids?! I am completely insulted, as weasels have always been my preferred anthro species, with ferrets running second. But that might be because I read too much Redwall as a kid...