October Artist of the Month: nickyzilla

11/10/2017

Hey furs, firstly we would like to apologizes for missing a couple of AotMs. However for the month of October our Artist of the Month is Nickyzilla! Nicky has light pin-up style and works primarily in digital artwork.

“My name is Monique, and I’m brazilian ,and since I was a kid a live in a big house where I could always have lots of animals ( mostly dogs and cats). I was a very shy kid so expend most of my time drawing and playing with my pets.
so I always loved to draw animals and thats makes me ending up here :)

My biggest inspirations are most Disney artists like Helen Chen , Cory Loftis and Ryan Lang . But I also have influence on Gil Elvgren pinups, Will Murai amazing paintings , Anna Catish amazing sense of design and style.” – nickyzilla

We hope that you, like us, love Nickyzilla’s work and use of bright and vivid colours to create such stunning artwork, if you do feel free to follow her on social media XD

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Where to Find more nickyzilla

July Artist of the Month: Werepuppy

01/07/2017

July’s Artist of the Month

Hey, furs! For the month of July, the Middlesfur committee has chosen Werepuppy Creations as our Artist of the Month! Werepuppy is a digital artist that produces amazing artwork for furries and she creates many original characters. One style she enjoys to draw is candy gore. Her work is popular and sometimes for those who don’t always have art of their fursonas. She has her own Facebook page, Patreon, amongst other ventures. We asked what inspired her work and why she enjoys drawing furry art.

“I’ve always been a furry, as well as therian, but it was discovering the game Furcadia that made me realise what furries actually were, and that was what I was. I went into roleplay and started drawing the characters for that, and it kinda evolved from there. I love creating characters especially, which is why I’m currently running the Wing it Fursona program, to give those without very many characters the chance to own a well designed one for free. As for influences for my art style, it started off with cartoons like Lion King and Balto, and I got further inspired by Goldenwolfen and Frisket17 when I started to discover other furry artists.”

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Where to Find more Werepuppy

Facebook: werepuppycreations

Trello: werepuppy-commissions

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Werepuppy

Shop: werepuppy.tictail.com

Twitch: werepuppycreations

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June Artist of the Month: Frith

04/06/2017

June’s Artist of the Month

It is June, and for the month of June, our Artist of the Month is Frith! Furs who attend Middlesfur will know both Frith and her artwork from our meets. Frith’s fursona is a jackalope (“A mythical animal depicted as a hare or rabbit with horns, said to exist in parts of North America.” – Oxford English Dictionary) with an eye for shiny objects. We love Frith’s bold outline style with bright colours, she even made our 3-year anniversary pictures last September.

“Hello! My name is Frith and I’m one of the artists here at Middlesfur. I’ve been drawing traditionally for as long as I can remember but only picked up digital art when I was around 13 after I discovered Neopets and an artist called Kuitsuku who drew fanart of the characters. I was entirely hooked by the big-eyed, crisp-lined, ploofy style which, looking back, should have tipped me off that I was a low-key furry … as it stands, I only truly accepted my furriness in 2015 when I attended Middlesfur for the first time and … here I am! I debuted my very own fursuit at this year’s Confuzzled after a more than a year and a half in the works. My fursona is Frith Silverthings, a magpie-jackalope with a penchant for shiny objects. I made his head and paws with lots of help from the community, especially the residents of Middlesfur and Kloofsuits’ tutorials on YouTube. I’m incredibly thankful to everyone who helped me through the process. In the future I plan to create a full plantigrade suit for him and I have no doubt I will continue to receive help and support from this incredible fandom. Thank you” – Frith

We at Middlesfur are so happy to have such a great artist who comes to the meets and produces cool art for us XD

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Where to Find more Frith

Twitter: @JackalBunny

Furaffinity: Lievre

Deviantart: mondaysraptor

Email: [email protected]

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May Artist of the Month: Faruku

30/04/2017

May’s Artist of the Month

Hey, furs! For the month of May, the Middlesfur committee has chosen Faruku as our Artist of the Month! Faruku is a multi-talented artist that produces work both digitally and traditionally along with her stunning fursuits. She is a devoted artist who started growing in popularity with her Lion King artwork and has become a force to be reconded with. Faruku can be found at many conventions, including this month at Confuzzled, she is usually very easy to find in the dealer’s den at the two tables behind the crowd for fursuit raffle tickets. Both her toony and realistic airbrushed fursuits are true works of art, and we at Middlesfur hope that you enjoy her work as much as we do.

“I’m FarukuCostumes! I’ve been making costume for around 7 years now, from realism to toony we cover everything you need :) I have a background in illustration and animation, and got into costumes through cosplay, we’ve now been making fursuits for fair few years and have expanded into an office location in ye olde North”

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Where to find more Faruku

Website: farukucostumes.co.uk

Furaffinity (fursuits): furaffinity.net/user/faruku

Furaffinity (Digital/traditional) furaffinity.net/user/ukuraf

Deviantart: farukucostumes.deviantart.com

Facebook: facebook.com/FarukuCostumes

Twitter: twitter.com/FarukuCostumes

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Artist of the Month Stefi Heartlilly

25/03/2017

Hey furs, we at Middlesfur would like to introduce you to new artists in the furry community. So at the start of every month, we are going to highlight an artist that we appreciate.

For the month of April our chair Neptune has chosen Stefi Heartlilly! Neptune has purchased quite a few of Heartlilly’s prints along with commissioning pieces of artwork from her. Heartlilly works both digitally and traditionally and has a distinct watercolour art style.

“I enjoy drawing anthropomorphized deities and animals, playing with personifications. Often using animal features to express a characters feelings and experiences, or just for fun! I love to design fantasy characters from fantasy realms, and have found various ‘online’ societies to be inviting of my work. Most of my commissions currently come from these societies of escapism. In the last few years i traveled to various geek/fantasy conventions all over the UK to sell and promote my work. My fan base has gradually built up around my Romantic feminism style, which is often absent in game/fandom conventions largely attended by men.” – Stefi Heartlilly’s about page.