Me: *kicks down shitty McDonalds door* gimme the fucking McPounder McDonalds Employee:t-that’s forbidden knowledge……………… Me: *kicking over chairs and screaming as the employee runs backstage and calls the mcpolice on my ass*
To be honest, I wanted to make this a few years ago. However, as luck would have it, a lot of stuff happened back then, work began to pile up, life issues began to strike again fiercely (i even reached a new low on give-no-fuck-ism i did not think possible) and all in all, I just wasn’t able to do anything really.
I already had some sketches (as some of these guys know) but on the time I couldn’t do anything, my sketchbook was haunting me and the moment I saw my original drawings I couldn’t help but feel I can do better and I should do better, but back then it just wasn’t the right time. I had a lot of ideas flowing in my head but by the time I managed to free myself some, I realized that perhaps I was set on a wrong approach. In the end, this time has served to not only better think my project but also to do it better as well. It also allowed me to add some more people too that are also into JoJo as well :yc
Thus, as my self-imposed challenge for New Year, I decided to draw all of this in 12 days or less. Maybe I did not meet my deadline but damn it surely helped me to take back all the practice I couldn’t do in all of this time, so I really don’t see this as a failure but rather as personal success
Now, you may wonder, why 12 days? What is the reasoning behind that deadline? Easy: I just wanted to give me a small birthday gift, by being able to finish and wrap up a small gift for my buddies :P
Yeah, my actual birthday is on January the 12th
In any case, here’s the featured people and their characters!
G+ partner and newcomer to this blue hell @mr-rhiggles‘ Rhaegos
And finally two of my RL friends’ sonas
There is also some people that I consider friends, helped me in some way, or I just think they are really neat people, but I could not feature them because of time constraints. So, the honorific mentions are:
I will defend furries to my fucking grave. When I was in the hole and needed money for college, not a SINGLE person from tumblr or deviantART ordered a commission. Sometimes people would ask about prices and reply, “Oh, nevermind, that’s too expensive.” I felt miserable.
In a fit of desperation, I brushed off my old Furaffinity account and revamped it. It was full of old, outdated bullshit and still had my “Taco pancakes!!! XDDD” aesthetic embedded in the info box. I had a lot of work to do.
When I was done, I started following and talking to people, I made an art shop, I started posting things and providing commission info.
Within a few weeks, I had my first customer. After a month, I had a full queue of commissions lined up to go. I have $250 in my PayPal wallet left after paying for my textbooks and part of my tuition – and I’m still getting more business!
And you know what my most common comment was? “Your art really should cost more.” These were often followed by $10-20 tips. I was fucking flabbergasted.
So yeah, go ahead and make fun of furries. Undermine the hours of work that goes into their art and fursuits. But they are more willing to pay for art than the tumblr and deviantART community COMBINED, despite all the pro-artist uwu bullshit I see every other page on this damned site.
Is there some kind of demographic explanation for this? Because over the years everything I’ve heard has indicated that furry art is where the money is at.
Apparently a LOT of furries are in programming and IT, for whatever reason.
Heads up on the second day I opened an fa account I got a message about someone wanting a commission. I had the account for 2 days. 2 days
Furries do pay artists more and I respect that.
I started up my FurAffinity account like two weeks ago and I’ve easily gotten double the commissions from there than however much I’ve gotten on tumblr, despite being a user for six+ years. The furry community is fucking amazing, I owe them so much.
