(copying this over from twitter)
this is the oldest art i could find (older is lost to time) but the design was CONSTANTLY changing X3
2014->2022
also yeah please add your sonas to this thread because i'd love to see yours!!!
This pic of my original sona is mostly just here for a header, since I'm gonna shove the rest under the cut. I thought it was a story best told through 5 or so pics, showing the progression of both.
Protolupi 1 (2012)
direct link
I followed a drawing tutorial on somethin' like anthroart.com lmao. This was the first dragon, they didn't last long, and they would be succeeded by the design that eventually grew into my first fully-fledged fursona.
Also yes this is the best scan i have, lmao
Protolupi 2 (2013)
direct link
This edit is technically where the throughline begins for what would become my fursona of many years. They were still masc, i was still very melodramatic teenager and kept putting my OCs through trauma, but eventually that would mellow out and the blue would start to take shape.
Lupi (2014-, pic from 2016)
direct link, artist's post (mild cw: outdated gender language)
There's a lot of intermediate art before this 2016 ref, most of it from being a broke teenage furry hanging out in raffle streams and getting gift art from friends, but this pic basically finalized her overall design. Aside, of course, from the gradual and continual increase in roundness. But like, details-wise, this is where she landed. She'd been quadrupedal since very early on, though given the nature of her art procurement at the time, that wasn't always reflected, but from this point onward I at least had the reference to point to.
Marion (2015-2019)
So. Marion's been around since 2015, and uh. Between 2015 and 2019, the only art pieces I had of them were all NSFW. This pic was where that changed, because in summer 2019 I took a look at their bio on the roleplay chatsite I'd invented them for, and I was like "wow, 2015 me did not know a damn thing about Gender and now 2019 does and can't stand this, I'm making this fucker Trans Of Gender and None of Biney"
That was the first step in them transcending their lot as a smut OC and becoming The One That's Me Online, Not The Dragon. This picture was the second. Even in the WIP stage, this was hitting me over the head with a pillowcase full of gender bricks. I egged it on, even, once I felt it, and suggested we make it a "reenactment" of a real picture I have of me, from my NASA Social for the Parker Solar Probe launch. Can't find that one on my imgur, but here's one from a few moments later with me and ULA CEO Tory Bruno.
So as far as Marion's fursona journey goes, this picture is pretty much where it started. i declared 2020 The Moo Year to trial it, and never went back. And almost immediately they changed significantly lmao.
Marion (2020-, pic from 2022)
Literally like, within the first few months of the year, the snaketail showed up, because I was having Big Tail Withdrawal from being a dragon with a fat one for so many years. I enjoyed the physicality and presence of such a tail, and goin' with a constrictor snake like a boa was natural. It just made the puns harder, i can't just say "bull python" or anything.
Also being weird multi rules. You should kiss both my pretty lil faces.



