Ken Sample

From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.

Ken Sample (also known as Kenneth Sample or Coug'r) is an furry artist who started drawing furries (or, as he termed them, Exotics) in 1975,^[1] inspired by catgirls in mainstream television animation of the time, including the animated Star Trek's Caitian officer M'Ress, Filmation's The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, and Napoleon from Richard S. Meyer's science fiction novel Doomstar (ISBN 0445200510).

Until that point, his main influence had been mainstream superhero comics, and his style of furry drawing reflects these beginnings, featuring athletic figures with smoothly detailed musculature, and finished with crisp inks.

1 Characters and species
2 Furry macrophilia
3 Real life
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Characters and species

During the 1980s Ken created a large number of species designs, including the felinsect, femaline, silkie, and tigrant. His Genetitech characters from this era exist in an informal shared universe with Rod O'Riley's Fur le Dance characters and Mark Merlino's recoms. He was "the illustrator for" Other Suns, a science fiction roleplaying game.^[1]

[edit] Furry macrophilia

Sample later became one of the founders and most highly regarded creators of furry macrophile art, as well as a co-founder and regular contributor to the A.P.A. MegaMorphics. He also contributed character designs to Sean McGuinness's Kaiju Girls, a set of female characters based on japanese giant movie monsters.

[edit] Real life

Until recently, he lived at Caer Carnivore, a furry household composed of his wife, Lisa Sample, and housemates Wolf and Anastasia Kidd. He currently resides in California, along with his wife. Although he is somewhat reclusive, his extensive body of work is readily available in the form of CD collections.

He is currently working with 3D artwork and animation, as well as experimenting with Shockwave Flash animation.