SciFi and Fantasy Art: Kumiho

OMG i'm just on the look out for really good artist work and this is just well what can i say but WOW i wish i had talent like this i've tried a few furry's but they never seem to come out right o well one day maybe i'm gonna get a way into elfwood to show my work but i can't compare to half the work i've seen in here ok ok back to the pic i love her she's just got the expression of 'take me with u' to perfection *runs off to try again on her own art inspired by this pic* byeeeeeeeeeeeee Thank you, I'm glad you liked this one. Kumihos are addictive aren't they? Must be some sort of a plot for world domination...

U mean theres someone else besides Bill Gates and WALMART plotting for world domination? i wana know who else is. HAHAHAHA! anyway, nice work! You got it bro

I wrote to you/commented several times on your nifty KuMiHos (like you I am totally enthralled with her...having professionally performed and written/published several pieces on her here in Asia, by the way, the Chinese version has 7 tails), but it seems they were on the "SF" gallery, so I thought I try here.
I used to be involved with furry fandom back in the 1980s and 90s. Mainly known for my few drawings and regular poetry that appeared in the zine "FurNography." My main character for them was a pan-sexual jackalope called Tamla. Currently, I live in Korea with jackalopes and the KuMiHo fueling my imagination (reality?). Well, once in awhile the original version of the Tokaebi pops in there.
Anyway, just a few more comments on your KuMiHo's that I didn't make on the others:
Curious, you seem to have made a whole group out of the KuMiHo, sort like werewolves. In Korea, there is just one KuMiHo, but many tales, ha ha?
And, somewhere you wrote that she/they are "evil?" Hmmm...really? She has to eat 100 hearts/livers/spleens (depending on ones translation...not too long ago, the heart was not where love resided for Western Romantics, it was the spleen, check out such poets as Baudelaire, so what she eats strikes me as "interesting,") to become human (there actually is an alternative way, but I wont get into that right now). She gets to number 100, but cannot kill him because she is in love with the guy. So, she lets him live and disappears into the woods failing to become human.
If someone gives up everything they ever wanted/desired personally in life to keep alive the one they truly love, then does that make them evil?
Keep up the good work and someday I hope to see this drawing with the colors you have in mind. Nice job dealing with the tail. Yes sir! I'll get started on the colors as soon as I can go home and find the original. Did you recieve the email that I sent you before?

The japanese type of fox demon is a kitsune, thought they aren't always evil. There are lots of stories about them, but the one Fredrick posted about KuMiHo seems in sync with them. Most kitsune stories have to do with their love for trickery and mischief. But there are stories of them repaying the kindness of humans, stories of their own self-sacrifice, stories in which they've repented for their past evils... They're really very interesting!

And the picture is a splendid depiction. Thanks for the info. Unlike Kitsune, KuMiHo is never benign. I remember drawing a picture of a kumiho playing with a flower for a friend and my ex-roommate (who was an international student) could not believe that a KuMiHo could play nicely with a flower.

the tails are all cool and bushy!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUSHYBUSHYBUSHYBUSHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr. Mayer’s depiction on the Korean spirit-fox is indeed quite accurate. It should be strongly noted, however, that the ’tricky fox’ archetype was not part of Japanese culture until foreign influence was involved. In original Japanese culture (a great many years ago) the Kitsune (spirit foxes) were benevolent, and are often depicted as marrying humans and being involved in all sorts of benevolent relationships. This may also stem from the Japanese religion (which had no name, but was given the name Shin Tao from chinese "way of the gods", which became "Shinto" when spoken in Japanese) being strongly a nature and fertility oriented set of beleifs.
Anyway, I just thought I’d post my two-cents... Saiyonara.