For me, its having to submit a form that makes it tough. I get ideas randomly, so when its limited to a few days a month, I've already found another artist to fill the random idea. Also times are tough, money is tight. Also like to chat about ideas on discord, discuss, etc . . .

I think the prices are fine Btw, its just the ordering experience. I like a more personal, casual chat.

Yeah, this is the biggest problems I have with submitting forms for commissions. I can have everything right besides one thing and the whole submission is rejected. There's also just being entirely unsure about something that can be easily resolved with a quick message. There's also the rare instance where I sent a submission and I don't know if it was even received!


What works best for me is having a discussion through discord DM where I can have everything answered, then sent off with my own document where everything can get approved or changed.

I would say try to make YCH ? ( with multiple slots, fix price and let us choose the type of shading ) and lowering the price as well a bit. ( Not that those are excessively hight tho )

You're a consummate pro that I highly recommend to anyone that asks, and I'd love to throw money at you every month - I just gotta have the money to throw at you, and RL (and the shitty exchange rate) make that tough. :(

I think your prices are fair considering you are that rare artist that does good art, on time, and at a reasonable price. Maybe a lower price for sketches that can be upgraded later, so if people want an idea drawn but can't handle the full price up front, it could be spread across a couple months? I've seen other artists offer something like this and it seems to result in a lot of repeat business for them.

Know a lot of folks have issues with Twitter nowdays because of the owner, and noticed your Twitter accounts are either locked or all submissions deleted, but it does seem to be a better place to get attention on your art. Submissions get buried here so fast, it's hard to be noticed on the front page or a search. Especially if you can get someone with a ton of followers on Twitter to re-post your work, it gets you so much more reach than you'll ever see on FA. And, sadly, Blue Sky just doesn't have the user base yet to get you notoriety there, either.

Furry art is a highly competitive market now, and more artists are trying to get into it every day. Cutting yourself off from a social media platform will hurt. I'm not in love with Twitter, either, but from a strictly business standpoint, it's the better move than Blue Sky or relying on people from your watchlist to see things here on FA. FA is not designed or structured to really lift new talent up, it encourages established artists to continue having the spotlight because the only exposure is a.) your watchlist, b.) someone sees your submission in someone else's favs, c.) someone randomly comes across it in a search. There's really not a way to generate new hits after the initial run of views/favs from your submission populating in in-boxes. But, if not using Twitter is a moral/ethical objection over platform content or ownership, it's up to you how much you're willing to let that potentially impact your business and exposure.

Think your prices are more than reasonable, I don't think that's an issue, tbh. Could try a YCH run, see how it goes. Or the furry basics; badges, FA banners, icons, stuff like that. I see some artists that make an icon base, then just mod it. Do them seasonally, or Pride is coming up, themed ones, w/e. But pin-ups are certainly not the only avenue to making money as a furry artist.

Fuck the site owned by a transphobic Nazi that is actively engaged in the worst kind of exploitative AI bullshit.

Every bit of add revenue that comes out of using that site goes to funding the fucked up shit Musk is doing.

Which is to say, using the site and failing to encourage people to go elsewhere is actively enabling the kind of anti-artist infrastructure that undermines the ability of artists to make money at all. It's a counterproductive business decision morals aside.

Nnnnnneat

Like would you honestly be ok advertising next to Grok hallucinations about white genocide myths and having your work expedited at being fed into AI? Like at this point the site is hanging on due to user apathy that's gotten kinda sad to watch.

This isn't constructive.

Y'know what, I'm having a bad few weeks, so gloves are off.

Spikefoxx is a closet center right winger whose whole reason for trying to sell Twitter as a good business decision by omitting all the reasons not to use the site is motivated by the fact Spike refuses to use Bluesky because the platform trends more to the left, and he feels unwelcome there as a result. He just wants Munks to be active on his preferred platform.

Which says a lot about a person when they would rather be on a platform that's increasingly transphobic, racist, and hostile to artists than be on the same platform as people that lean to the left.

Given the choice of people they generally disagree with and literal far right weirdos they chose the far right weirdos. And now he want to drag everyone back into his choice because they feel lonely for it.

So he downplays the AI scraping, the misinformation, the owner throwing literal Nazi salutes. And offers the promise of money. Whatever it takes to not be left the fuck behind in that chosen cesspool.

This isn't the place for this. Not really sure why you're typing this. Munks is looking for constructive criticism. Could you maybe provide that?

Sorry, cooked off a bit that someone was trying to coerce and manipulate Munks into going back to the hellsite when he's in a bad spot.

How useful is Twitter really when everything gets buried and a decent chance a fair bit of it is bots at this point?

Besides, there's plenty of other social media to make use of.

The real problem these days seems to be the same thing everyone's dealing with- Not having enough money to spend on things.

youre coping tbqh, xitter a violent, hate filled pit w genai slop and almost no actual moderation. its impossible to interact on it without getting spamfucked by bots and hate speech

Think coping is dropping by an over a week-old comment just to whine about Twitter, but you do you :)

Oh, for me there's two things I need to feel comfortable commissioning an artist:
- Public TOS / price listings and add-on fees etc. Like, totally respect it makes the form better to have it all in one, but if I'm browsing and going "Oh, goddamn, wanna comm this guy", having all the info public and available whether you're actively open or not makes it easier to go "Ooh, yeah, $X? Yeah I can save $X for when you're open."
- Me personally, while I completely respect that sometimes it's "Hey, this is a job, just don't do anything on my firm no list and we can work on the piece", I kinda like knowing "This is what I <actively enjoy> working on / want to do more of" in the info? Sometimes with a more varied client base it's hard to tell, honestly. Like not just a Do/Don't, a Fave list is appreciated.

While lower prices / more of a range of prices always makes a commission easier to justify, you DO have a right to go "Erm, I'm worth X, I'm going to charge X" and it feels really weird going "Reduce prices >:C" when inflation's hitting EVERYBODY. And I don't really think of your gallery/brand as being "hey, I'm doing sketch pages! I'm doing timed pieces!" where there's a VERY clear "I am available for 15 hours each week this month. I need $1500 (random number). Can I get people to pay $25 an hour for these pieces?" 1:1 impact. You're doing more complex work.

Bounties / "hey, do themed work that would advertise well for me and I'll give you a lil off" isn't a bad idea, but needs to translate to sales, tbf.

I would second the Fave list idea because one reason I don't submit anything is just getting discouraged of submissions not being selected. Even though logically I know it's just random chance, it leaves a feeling that the idea isn't ideal especially when it's a couple of submissions in succession that aren't selected. So it left a "why even try?" feeling.

why not come up with a redeem on ereki's twitch channel, so that way if anyone would like they can use a certain amount of points on ereki's twitch channel just so they can redeem for a free art commission.

and plus the only problem is is how much points they are willing to use, to be honest I would flat out give certain different types of free art commissions in different kinds of point prices, like for an example a free sketch would have to cost about like 50,000 ereki points, even for an example, there would also have to be a free fully colored art commission and it would have to cost double the amount, but for a free fully colored and shaded art commission would have to be about double the amount as well, even especially for it to be double the amount as well for there to be a fully shaded and colored art commission with a background. y'all get what I'm saying right?

it's all up to you munks, whether if you want to allow yourself to actually do some art. and I know how you feel about art on twitch, sometimes you cannot do NSFW art on it, however what if I told you you can do sfw art on it, but then you stream NSFW art on a piczel stream.

and plus if someone wants to request a spicy (as someone would call it) art commission by using the redeems on ereki's twitch stream, and then munks can actually add that redeem's request on his own list of requests that needs to get done for his own NSFW stream on a separate site.

and what I mean separate site I mean piczel

How about a 'Your character as a Knight from Null Verdict' specials? I'm sure that there will be some people that would like to see what they would look like in your story.

I don't know how much this will help, but maybe having a sort of queue list/more transparent way of letting people know when you have open slots/time for commissions? As someone who isn't an artist myself I often end up kind of presuming talent artists have lots of demand/a lot of work lined up when I know that isn't always the case.

It sounds a little silly, but the way your commission system is set up where it talked about how you would pick what commission ideas you liked at the end of the month made me think that you generally had lots of people submitting commissions and that it wouldn't be super likely for the commission to be chosen. That's probably more on me being overly anxious, but I figured I'd mention it in case I'm not the only one.

I'm mostly just nervous about getting selected or not. That's a personal issue though. Outside of that, it's really just bad lack with when I have spare funds and when you are open not lining up. Your prices are honestly fine though.

Got my fingers crossed for you, hope people stop in more for comissions.

Listen i'm just poor right now, if i wasn't i'd take your entire stock

I don't believe that it's just you that's having this issue. I've seen this with a few other artists that I watch, having hard times getting commissions. I think it just kind of speaks to the harder times that some folk are facing, where we're kind of trying to figure out where our money needs to go. Bills first, and then fun afterwards. I don't think you should worry about your pricing. As an artist you should price yourself based off what you feel your work is worth, and nothing less. It's not fair to you, otherwise.

Alternately, you could do something like a 'June Month is SUMMER THEME Month', where you could give a percentage off of commissions based within that theme. As a suggestion.

I honestly think your prices are more than fine. Specials can't hurt though!

I would also say that the end of the month is typically when I'm in full on saving mode as well, so it's hard to jump at comms at that time for me personally.

Lower prices would get me to jump in, offered specials might as well. Another thing might be to just post more often to say that you're open, I'm not sure I knew that you were.

it sucks that everyone is just broke as dirt rn and its not gonna get better on that front for a while but tbh, itd be cool to like, run specials for trans people or some shit like that