Alex Dachshund
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Alex Dachshund, also known as Alex Doxie, Alex Dachsie, or simply, Alex, (born October 4th, 1989) is a female-to-male (FTM) transgender fursuiter and furry artist living in Whiteville, North Carolina, U.S.A. His fursona is a dachshund, or "weinerdog".
Alex first discovered the fandom at age 16, while on an obscure fanart site. Even at an early age, Alex has always found anthropomorphic animals quite fascinating, even drawing animals with human-like qualities at age five and attempting to dress-up as them. Alex didn't discover the more 'adult' side of the fandom until several years later.
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[edit] Personal Life
Alex is a transgender FTM living in the southeastern United States. He currently lives with two dogs and two ferrets.
His personality consists of a dachshund-like playfulness, curiosity, kind, friendly, a bit shy, stubborn at times, and quick to laugh. He loves making new friends and just generally having some plain old-fashioned fun.
Alex enjoys watching television, drawing, hanging out with friends, playing with his pets, surfing the net, listening to music, and staying up late.
He is currently single and looking for the right mate. He is also now currently employed as a food prep at Burger King as of November.
[edit] Art
Alex has been drawing for as long as he can remember.
Even as a young toddler, then a child, then through adolescence, Alex has always loved drawing animals and drawing anthropomorphic creatures. As a child, he would often draw human-like animals wearing clothes, walking upright, and speaking like humans.
As Alex got older, he started becoming interested in digital art and less interested in traditional. Though, his first digital drawings were very crude (MS Paint and PhotoStudio 2000 drawn by mouse). Then in late 2008, he acquired his Wacom tablet and started trying out art programs such as Photoshop and openCanvas. After several years, his art has improved dramatically from his early days of using MS Paint.
Alex currently uses Paint Tool Sai and occasionally Photoshop CS2 for his art.
Alex's art style is heavily inspired by anime for the most part, and a little mix of Disney and Don Bluth. He is known to draw cute art, and his shading style is anime-like cellshading with many highlights and sparkles which was influenced by the anime, "Gravitation".
[edit] Fursuiting
Alex was always interested in fursuits since discovering the fandom and always wanted one of his own.
He attempted to make his own fursuit in April 2010 but after many trials and errors, wasn't too happy with the outcome and decided to save up and commission someone for one.
At the time, all Alex could afford was a head so he started looking for cheap fursuit makers. Then, sometime in August 2010, Growly approached him with an offer and Alex accepted it and commissioned her for a head. Then, after his birthday in October, he acquired enough money and commissioned her for handpaws and a tail to complete the head. The fursuit was finished and shipped around early December 2010. Alex later commissioned a pair of feetpaws from Phoenixwolf33 at a later date in 2011. He plans on getting a bodysuit made soon.
The suit features handpaws with sleeves that go up to the shoulders which are held up by elastic bands that go around the wearer's back, latex pawpads, a fluffy tail held up with belt loops, and a balaclava-based head with excellent vision through the pupils and tear ducts. The snout has a hidden vent in which hot air can escape, a hidden hole inside the mouth for drinking through a straw, floppy ears with earrings, a fleece nose, a static non-moving jaw, and dark brown hair tuft with magenta bangs that was originally intended to be removable, but later sewn down firmly.
Alex is still very new to fursuiting and hasn't been to many cons yet. He went to his first con on May 26th, 2011 called Animazement, a local anime con in Raleigh, NC. His next con will be FWA 2012.
[edit] Conventions Attended
- Animazement 2011
[edit] Alex the Dachshund
Alex Dachshund was first created around June 2009. Originally, he was a dark brown dachshund with spikey black hair and wore jeans and a teal T-shirt. Then, he became a she and her outfit changed to black jeans, turquoise collared shirt, and blue polka dot tie. After someone remarked that she didn't look very female, her appearance was changed again to black pants, magenta and turquoise striped collared shirt, and a black tie; and longer hair with pink bangs. Sometime after, Alex became a transgender character and is now currently depicted as a male with shorter hair than his previous version.
Alex's creator has remarked that his outfit is inspired by a mix of 80s fashion and "scene kid" Hot Topic products. The outfit is also inspired by the outfit that British singer Patrick Wolf wore in his music video "The Magic Position", and that the color scheme for his shirt was inspired by Rick Astley's "Together Forever" music video.
A common question asked for the creator is why he decided to choose an uncommon dog breed fursona. He replied, "You see too many huskies and collies and the like in the fandom. I wanted to be original and choose something you rarely see. Dachshunds I can identify with as the dog breed is very similar to my own personality. I'm friendly but incredibly stubborn. Also, I have always been a fan of the breed".
[edit] Description
Alex is a FTM (female-to-male) transgender character. He is in his early 20's and is about 5'5" in height and weighs 115 pounds. He resembles a non-colorful Scenedog in his feral form.
Alex is a tan long-haired miniature dachshund. His famous outfit consists of a magenta shirt with turquoise stripes, a black neck tie, and black jeans with optional earrings and bone wristband. Alex is very friendly with people and loves to play around, loyal to his friends, cruel to his enemies. He is also very stubborn and tends to want to do things his way, but that is a trait that is shared with all dachshunds. He can also be rather shy and sensitive at times and would much rather avoid fights and drama and just walk away.
As a transgender FTM character, Alex has had his breasts removed but still has the girly "bits" downstairs. His voice is male-like but slightly high for a male. Alex doesn't really care for yiffy situations and would much rather cuddle and be romantic. He is straightedge and does not smoke nor drink.
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