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Drawing humans and demi-humans? [silly ramble]
a week ago
★ Been wanting to draw them for a while, and considering allowing people to buy commissions with such characters, but often what has been holding me back is fear of others who like them, 'cuz I don't more people coming trying to push my boundaries to get something or putting pressure demanding more of them.
I like them, but in a more constrained manner compared to anthro/furry characters, and there are too many variables, for example:
Art style: Often the more styalized the better on the cartoony side, manga/anime style, or GOAT Simpsons, essentialy 2D character. The more realistic the less I like it, last thing I wanna deal with is people sending me pictures of live actions doing vore or sending pictures of themselves irl as a ref for a drawing. I don't care about the style you want them to look, it's just going to be off putting the whole way through to work with.
Type of character: Since I'm mostly a vore artists I'm gonna put them in this context, I'm more flexible with Demi-Human characters because, like anthros, they can fill the role as predators just as well, better than a regular human can which I mostly see them as prey. Often it's odd to me seeing regular humans preying on others like animals, without anything special that sets them apart... Now there is where costumes and fursuits come in, Vanny for example is my favorite in this category.
General stuff: Sorry if I may come as toxic or fatfobic with what I'm about to say, but in case these more human characters, I don't think their faces goes well in a fat body as well as one with a muzzle... specially with bills, so weight gain with them is more limited to what you usually see others doing where they get belly and extra curvy (or muscly) instead of more realisticaly "bloated" looking... I also prefer a bit more feminine characters (including femboys), I'm also a bit more flexible with demis on the aspect so for example, in case of orcs that are either buff or overweight they can be nice, but for regular humans... I'm sorry >w<"
I'd like to say that despite wanting to draw some humans, I still want to keep 'em to a minimum, still mainly drawing stuff with anthros, because not only it's what I enjoy the most by far to draw and everything, I think will make doing rewards and commissions much worse than what it already is.
In general I don't like very much doing rewards or commission, so often I'm on auto-pilot when comes to them to do it quickly so it doesn't wear down my patience and sour my mood, as boring as I find most of their ideas, at least they often go through smoothly. Throwing "humans" into the mix I can't help but think of how bad things will get, taking what I've said in consideration about how constrained they're compared to furries for me, the longer it takes trying to settle on an idea trying to appeal or hype me for it, more I have cold feet and more it sours my mood way before I start working on it.
So word of advice, play it safe, if I don't accept your human idea at first, give up and go with an anthro instead so things can move along. Another would be like, this is more of an offer to other furries that also likes some human stuff, but if you're coming ONLY for the humans... I'd suggest you take your business elsewhere.
I think that's it for now, I've been thinking about making a comic strip talking about it and other similar stuff, but man this year has been a really messy content wise, everything got postponed to make way for commissions I've took early this year for the apartment and now for the motorcycle... which I bought it by the end of last month~
For those who bought comms or supports me on patreon or subscribestar and happens to be reading this, my most sincere thank you for helping me getting it, despite everything I've said, one aspect that makes working on rewards and commissions bearable is that most of you people are pretty fine, chill and smart to deal with, so often the work flows without a hitch. One of the reasons I don't like doing comms it's because they really get in the way of my other projects and room that I have to "decompress", so I open comms only in special occasions and preferably keep my queues as small as possible so I can take a break after crunching on 'em, so nothing personal ^ ^"
Anyway, I'mma close this journal =w="
Also imo you can just refuse to draw something if you don't want to. There are plenty of other artists out there, and I think on the other hand if they're a fan they'd want you to work on something generally fitting what you're known for creating.
I do get the worry though, but at the same time I'm in the opposite boat.
I've been wanting to draw up human stuff myself lately because my own interests are starting to shift, but my anxieties on the subject come from the fact that I've met many furries in my time that are super against human stuff. So I feel even if I tried the interest may not be there at all or worse, I'll lose watchers over it. I even once considered making a secondary account solely for human stuff just to keep the two separated, but also decided it'd be a lot of effort keeping two things going and active. Sometimes you just gotta take a leap of faith, though.
If it's something you truly wanna do, then do it. If you're still nervous about the whole thing maybe do a trial run and see how people react to it before deciding to move forward with the decision. But once again, it's ultimately your decision on how you wanna move forward.
Never let anyone make you feel forced or pressured if it's something you're just not into.