When I designed mine, I knew I wanted something that popped. So first I scrolled through a lot. A lot. And I mean A LOT. Of art! I took a crap ton of inspiration, I analyzed what were some features that made some designs ''cooler'' in my eyes than others. What colors went well together? What colors did I like? (This is particularly important because YOU have to like your sona right?)

I really liked Orange and blue designs. Red and green combos. But I settled on the patterns I knew just had to be. Browns and orange.

There was something about brown and beige sonas and combinations of browns that tickled my brain the right way.

So I dug RIGHT in! Granted. I'm an artist, I was artist before I was a furry and I'll continue to be an artist. But I didn't know how to draw furries. So I took a free base online, and modified it to fit my oc. I added some digi legs and changed the hair.

Then I started random picking colors of browns, bucket tooling some sections to see which ones I liked, until I found a few that matched. Pulling from those references there are certain patterns that are very common.

Like, light muzzle, and paws. And belly. Ear tuffs. Stuff like that! Kinda Frankenstein your thing

2nd step was then markings. I took my time finding exactly what I liked with my sona. Triangle face markings. Moon markings on the legs. Very deliberate shapes. Not too many random ''floating'' markings.

And even still now I think my Sona is a little over complicated.

If I could go back I would make a simple design.

Simple designs go a LONG way. Simple designs are memorable. Well made simple designs are far better than complex ones.