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The furry landscape is changing
2 years ago
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It's been a while I had a feeling there are less interesting artwork than before, and the reason is simple: There are less commissioners that bring original ideas for the artists to draw.
There are less commissioners altogether. Because artists have chosen a different way to market their art. All have decided to highly increase their prices (honestly almost can't touch the least sketch below 100$ nowadays) and many giving up on the commission format in the favor of other (more lucrative?) methods such YCH auction and paid subscriptions (patreon etc).
As a result we see more of the biggest commissioners and less of newcomers, more paid access artwork and less original creations.
In my opinion price has just gotten too high for digital artwork, I do understand that artists have improved over the years but there is a true lack of veteran artist on the accessible commission formats (like colored sketches) which remains essential for a healthy furry community as it should still be the most demanded type of commission.
Another problem and not the least is twitter, more and more artists choose twitter as their main artist plateform and it is extremely bad (again imo) because it was NOT designed for it in the first place, i'm fed up of scrolling endlessely and having to dig in twitter to find artists that I don't know because they're not on FA or any other plateform which is dedicated to furry artwork, talking about plateforms, the furry community is not as big as we'd believe it is and there are too much of them, artists might be active on some, not on others, it is a pain in the ass to find out on which one it is the best to follow our favorite artists, or where they open their commissions slots, sometimes they post art on FA, but open commissions only on twitter or on patreon...
I believe Patreon remains a good way for an artist to sell art as it was specifically made for it, but for me twitter should stop being used and furry artists should stop disperse themselves in countless plateforms. I honestly can't wait for the day twitter will finally ban porn so that the furry community from there is finally coming home.
It's been almost 10 years since i've registered here and everything i've been talking about in this journal (or previous journal's subjetcs such as artists being particularly unprofessional towards their clients) was a reason that has gotten me less and less interested in having my own art, or in furry art in general, I have tried many times to increase my commissions per year but i'm also fed up of the prices that never cease to reach new heights everytime. I will continue to post art, but I will be way more selective from now on.
There are less commissioners altogether. Because artists have chosen a different way to market their art. All have decided to highly increase their prices (honestly almost can't touch the least sketch below 100$ nowadays) and many giving up on the commission format in the favor of other (more lucrative?) methods such YCH auction and paid subscriptions (patreon etc).
As a result we see more of the biggest commissioners and less of newcomers, more paid access artwork and less original creations.
In my opinion price has just gotten too high for digital artwork, I do understand that artists have improved over the years but there is a true lack of veteran artist on the accessible commission formats (like colored sketches) which remains essential for a healthy furry community as it should still be the most demanded type of commission.
Another problem and not the least is twitter, more and more artists choose twitter as their main artist plateform and it is extremely bad (again imo) because it was NOT designed for it in the first place, i'm fed up of scrolling endlessely and having to dig in twitter to find artists that I don't know because they're not on FA or any other plateform which is dedicated to furry artwork, talking about plateforms, the furry community is not as big as we'd believe it is and there are too much of them, artists might be active on some, not on others, it is a pain in the ass to find out on which one it is the best to follow our favorite artists, or where they open their commissions slots, sometimes they post art on FA, but open commissions only on twitter or on patreon...
I believe Patreon remains a good way for an artist to sell art as it was specifically made for it, but for me twitter should stop being used and furry artists should stop disperse themselves in countless plateforms. I honestly can't wait for the day twitter will finally ban porn so that the furry community from there is finally coming home.
It's been almost 10 years since i've registered here and everything i've been talking about in this journal (or previous journal's subjetcs such as artists being particularly unprofessional towards their clients) was a reason that has gotten me less and less interested in having my own art, or in furry art in general, I have tried many times to increase my commissions per year but i'm also fed up of the prices that never cease to reach new heights everytime. I will continue to post art, but I will be way more selective from now on.
I think this is one of the larger problems lately. Art is seriously more of a luxury than it used to be but as long as there are people who can afford to pay it they can raise prices. It's just way harder than it should be for me to even know when artists I would commission are open or available. Twitter is useless.
I'll pay what I'm comfortable paying for an art piece since costs are so expensive just to live these days anyway. But when I see artists raising the price for things that don't actually make them do more work like "Oh I'm gonna charge 40% more for NSFW"? No. NSFW isn't 40% more work. I'm not going to pay to "override your moral compass."
Side note, you can get a sketch of five characters by a Disney artist in the park for less than $200. So if you can barely get a sketch on here for $100? Yikes.