These kind of thoughts occured to me as well regarding characters and stories that never coalesced into real works, but then you even made the effort to draw this, far more than I've ever done.

Hope you do get some time to work on your stories

I wish I was a crazy, homeless bum on the streets in my own mind...

But I'd have to crawl up to get that high...

No muzzle? Fur burnt off? Wouldn't most folks just assume a human was some sort of deformed monkey if they had never seen one before?

Mange! Gets ya every time.

It puts me into a very deep thought.

I know the feeling. The furry is so much fun, but if you have to eat and pay the rent etc.. it doesn't pay. As to the earlier question.. clear or porn? the nonfurry is the answer.

That is, if you seriously want to draw to earn.

But if one really want to stretch one's imagination and have fun while drawing... It's the furry, definetely.

thank you karno as a writer who has led his characters into so many bad things the worst by far is limbo left to languish as i lost my muse or read other peoples work

thank you

Its easy to have time to write alll your stories and works when you are doing just that, but as I recall you still have a day job as well.

Yeah, I know the problem. 3 or 4 years ago, I came up with a whole universe I call TerraFUR. Now I'm 45, how do I go about telling it's stories? One at a time I guess.

It's not fair I tell you! We need to be inmortal! and have a hot piece of tail to keep you going, am I right men? :)

- Shado

For me this is one of your best works... and didn't you already do the Herman Orca story? I mean to have it read in the american journal of anthropomorphics...

Wow...this is...just...dang. Makes you think, to say the least.

Thanks for sharing.

You know? There's a deep, psychological reason for the bandages covering the Artist's face. Did you draw this little detail as a matter of fact, or is there deeper reason behind it? (You see, I've been mulling over a similar idea concerning my "Artist and Muse" stories, and I'd hate to tread on your "Intellectual property.")

Your ideas are not my intellectual property. Go ahead with whatever you're planning to write!

A rather good bit of self awareness there.

I have noticed that characters I've come up with and left behind in the past seem to get cannibalised later on for new ones.

I came up with a story when I was 12, and wanted to eventually make a comic out of it. So I kept trying and trying, for years. I thought the only problem was my lack of character design skills, but that was wrong. I would get better with characters after enough struggling, but I was still bad at storytelling and didn't know it - I figured it wasn't important enough, but it was, and I wouldn't have known it was important until I finished the whole comic and showed everyone my well-drawn but badly told comic. And even if it were well-drawn AND well-told, I had no idea where to publish it. This was 18 years ago when we didn't have simple gallery sites or publishing systems.

I'm someone who gets stuff done no matter what, so I was drawing one failed picture after another, refusing to quit, thinking it won't be much longer now. Just one more step and I'll have a comic book. But it would have been a royal mess and tragedy if I had succeeded.

Seems like ill-confidence is there for a reason. I'll eventually restart the comic when the conditions are right

We are humans (cough) and we dont live forever. If you dont work, you live. Its normal. Its hard live only working, right ? We must choose how to plain our work time and be real: We cant finish all the ideas /projects.

Anyway, this lines are for me. You are a good artist and I think you are doing it great.

Ah, crap.

Now my own characters are looking over my shoulder and asking when I'll get with it.

"It will take as long as it takes! I've got other fish to fry!"

Yeesh.

For some reason it made me think of and old joke... you know "If he has no nose, how does he smell?"

My muse is an unrelenting bitch - not only is she pushy but fussy too - Ive been writing my ..well I suppose you could call it an 'online serial' now instead of a book for the last 5 years ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2659436/ ) Over those years several complex subplots have evolved and taken me in directions that I never considered when I began the tale. I hope to be able to follow those threads one day and see where they take me but a fulltime job and a life that involves travel, animals and family isnt easy to write through. Self discipline is a must and when you erase whole portions and rewrite for the 3rd or 4th time it can get frustrating. But the muse never stops whispering....

Oh I know that problem ^^

So many distractions in life.

Yes I remember this one

Every cartoonist (writer AND artist of a work) should do this at least once.

There's an idea! I *DARE* cartoonists to do this!

fantastic to finaly get some clarity on this one, a definate shout out to the herman orca story