Animal Quills

As more people here express their thoughts on this subject I think it becomes clearer that quite a number of therians don't have a strict, stagnant image of themselves (as human and their therioside(s)), and though some of us would like to have that one, artistically-depictable image of ourselves, there are many of us that just can't efficiently 'squeeze' ourselves into that kind of single depiction. Some therians can make a single form/image of themselves (whether in their own mind, or in visual art), but I tend to think it's likely a rarer occurrence than the non-stagnant or more vague images of one's self as human and animal. And as Aloiis was mentioning earlier, even with a single, stagnant image of one's self as a therian, there's still much more to that person's self-concept than that image--it's something that is felt, experienced, and understood, and thus not just limited to visualizations. Who we are and how we are represented to our own selves encompasses more than just visuals.

So yeah, I can relate with you about the vagueness and not being able to make any visual/artistic depiction of "myself" since I can't refine myself that much into something so unchanging, and so strongly visual. I also in ways think it fits well with what most non-human animal minds would do--it would be feeling and understanding aspects of itself, its body, and movements instead of viewing them from a visual (especially highly visual) third-person perspective; so not that having such a visual and detailed third-person image of one's self as a therian is 'wrong' or unrealistic (so to speak), but I just tend to think it comes highly from one's human perspective and for some people that human perspective is very keen at being able to visualize what the human and animal aspects of him/herself look like (together or separately). So I find both general types fine and interesting in that I like to be able to see a person make visual art of what they therianthropically look like, rather than it being a mostly aesthetic fursona/persona kind of fiction character, but I also find it interesting to hear of other people's feelings and experiences in having more vague or fluid self-concepts that they can't depict much if at all through visual art because of that vagueness or fluidity of self.