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 It was full of old, outdated bullshit and still had my “Taco pancakes!!!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.