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Western furries come from a place with low self criticism and low criticism in general. Furry community was founded around marginalized groups like the LGBT, specially gay men. Fursonas and fursuits give them anonimity allowing them to be themselves when it wasn’t accepted by society so these communities were highly accepting and low on criticism. Furry style seems to draw more from sports mascots and costumes than cartoon animals also why they are mostly a human body covered in fur and an animal head, because most of the time they were representing a fursuit. Another fact is on how western furry communities operate on commissions meaning a furry obsessed with some obscure fetish can support a shitty artist, since a single commissioner can keep the demand high there is not much incentive or feedback for improvement so unless the artist have a healthy dose of self criticism they can stay decades making shitty drawings.
Japanese furries seems to be more related to cute mascots and less human bodies are more common while the head is often more humanized, the artists usually draw doujinshis and sell those at conventions. Even if they have a massive fan who always buy the doujinshi that is not enough to support the artist. The artist motivation is to get better so more people would be interested in their work. Also they are less likely to be exclusive furry artists, many Japanese artists that draw mostly furry characters also draw humans and many of the ones who draw mostly human characters also draw furry art.