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Quick Question to My Watchers!
19 years ago
An artist with no deadlines is unemployed!
***QUICK QUESTION***
Okay you needent read the rest of my ranty journal, but I would like the answer to a dilemma I'm currently facing.
Question is this - do you think I should stick with my clothed (or nearly clothed) style or should I just give up and go all out for yiffy art? Which will make me more money?
Pros: Yiffy art possibly makes more money?
Cons: Yiffy art means people hate your non-yiffy art and you get a bad rep from the non-yiff-loving furs?
Anyhoo, please give me your thoughts, even if it is just "Yiffy art good" or "yiffy art bad".
Thanks, guys!
***ART NEWS***
Commissions very soon. Once I figure out prices. I'm thinking $5 for sketch, $10 for inks or B/W shading, $20 for full CG. Opinions?
Got my scanner and computer hooked up so new art should be appearing very soon - and yes, you'll finally see my animations.
Still on a bit of an artist's block, but I think I've found a solution to this, which is going to make me feel better. I think I'm going to draw outside instead of inside. This apartemtn is just so small and cramped and full of crap.
I need nature. And sunshine. And LIFE.
***LIFE NEWS***
Moved back in with my fiance. I'm in desperate need of cash, which is why I'm thinking of dropping me personal ban on naughty images, not that I have a problem with drawing them it's just all too often that fans of your art get increasingly upset with you if you aren't willing to draw basically anything upon their notice.
If that happens again the naughty shop will probably end up closed again. But I'm not putting up with the pedifiles and zoophiles and godknowswhatelsephiles who just think I'm open to drawing every sick fantasy they've ever had.
Did I mention that because of space issue in my apart ment I have exactly two feet from my desk to my bed in which I cannot move my chair very much so I end up with a cramp in my back if I sit here too long? Not to mention there's so much crap in this room and the windows are blocked off. It's like I'm suffocating all the time I'm in here. It's awful. And I have to sleep here too. I wish our stupid roommate would just move so I could move this desk into his room and feel good again. I need to color on this computer, and that's just not going to be happy.
I didn't do too bad this semester, which is nice. Considering I was sick for most of it and I was also a victim of the province-wide strike. Got a C and a C+ in two of five classes but the other were a's and b's. I should be good to go for next semester. ::nodnod::
***RANT TIME***
Well, more of a story for those following me along.
Okay about that teacher I was talking about in my last journal (the psycho who treated us all like dirt?)
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10665/
Okay, here's the fun stuff. One of the things he did to my class when we all messed up and did the wrong project was yell at us because he 'wasted $1000 bucks coming from california" where he was "talking to the Pixar guys".
Well At Sheridan we occassionally get Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks, etc to come and offer internships to the 3rd year students. The last week of School Pixar comes in.
But this guy had a class that day PLUS he told several students he would be marking their work during that class time (since he never marks outside of class time!) and that they should show up.
Well now. funny that. Class was cancelled and so most of us went to the Pixar presentation. And who dominated the Q&A period for the first ten minutes, asking questions that didn't pertain to student internships? Why, none other than that teacher!
It gets better. All of those students he ditched in the morning, AND the students he told to come to that class, were to go to the next class. Remember, this was for everyone's final marks!
What happens? Why, he doesn't show up! I joked that this might be due to him going out to lunch with the Pixar guys. Though, no one really knew what the hell was going on.
But no, this gets better. Pissed off people from the two-and-a-half classes that are not getting their final grades because this guy is gone go find the dean of Animation. And drag him to their classroom to show him that everyone was about to get screwed for their final marks (oh and I should mention that their animations and several assignments were due the next day?). Well jsut as they drag him to the class, guess who shows up to class more than an hour late?
My teacher. With the Pixar guys AND the associate dean of the arts (rank higher than the dean of animation) in tow - he had gone to lunch with all of them, it seems.
Well, the students were so very fed up with him at this point that they surrounded him and lambasted him in front of the very guys he had been trying so hard to impress, as well as his current employers. I wish I had been there. I'd had the chance (as I was one of several people who should have gone to see him to try and prove to him that I wasn't a dunce but I opted to do other things).
So yes...I'm highly satisfied with this. I know I shouldn't revel in it but this ass had it coming for a long, long time.
Okay you needent read the rest of my ranty journal, but I would like the answer to a dilemma I'm currently facing.
Question is this - do you think I should stick with my clothed (or nearly clothed) style or should I just give up and go all out for yiffy art? Which will make me more money?
Pros: Yiffy art possibly makes more money?
Cons: Yiffy art means people hate your non-yiffy art and you get a bad rep from the non-yiff-loving furs?
Anyhoo, please give me your thoughts, even if it is just "Yiffy art good" or "yiffy art bad".
Thanks, guys!
***ART NEWS***
Commissions very soon. Once I figure out prices. I'm thinking $5 for sketch, $10 for inks or B/W shading, $20 for full CG. Opinions?
Got my scanner and computer hooked up so new art should be appearing very soon - and yes, you'll finally see my animations.
Still on a bit of an artist's block, but I think I've found a solution to this, which is going to make me feel better. I think I'm going to draw outside instead of inside. This apartemtn is just so small and cramped and full of crap.
I need nature. And sunshine. And LIFE.
***LIFE NEWS***
Moved back in with my fiance. I'm in desperate need of cash, which is why I'm thinking of dropping me personal ban on naughty images, not that I have a problem with drawing them it's just all too often that fans of your art get increasingly upset with you if you aren't willing to draw basically anything upon their notice.
If that happens again the naughty shop will probably end up closed again. But I'm not putting up with the pedifiles and zoophiles and godknowswhatelsephiles who just think I'm open to drawing every sick fantasy they've ever had.
Did I mention that because of space issue in my apart ment I have exactly two feet from my desk to my bed in which I cannot move my chair very much so I end up with a cramp in my back if I sit here too long? Not to mention there's so much crap in this room and the windows are blocked off. It's like I'm suffocating all the time I'm in here. It's awful. And I have to sleep here too. I wish our stupid roommate would just move so I could move this desk into his room and feel good again. I need to color on this computer, and that's just not going to be happy.
I didn't do too bad this semester, which is nice. Considering I was sick for most of it and I was also a victim of the province-wide strike. Got a C and a C+ in two of five classes but the other were a's and b's. I should be good to go for next semester. ::nodnod::
***RANT TIME***
Well, more of a story for those following me along.
Okay about that teacher I was talking about in my last journal (the psycho who treated us all like dirt?)
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10665/
Okay, here's the fun stuff. One of the things he did to my class when we all messed up and did the wrong project was yell at us because he 'wasted $1000 bucks coming from california" where he was "talking to the Pixar guys".
Well At Sheridan we occassionally get Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks, etc to come and offer internships to the 3rd year students. The last week of School Pixar comes in.
But this guy had a class that day PLUS he told several students he would be marking their work during that class time (since he never marks outside of class time!) and that they should show up.
Well now. funny that. Class was cancelled and so most of us went to the Pixar presentation. And who dominated the Q&A period for the first ten minutes, asking questions that didn't pertain to student internships? Why, none other than that teacher!
It gets better. All of those students he ditched in the morning, AND the students he told to come to that class, were to go to the next class. Remember, this was for everyone's final marks!
What happens? Why, he doesn't show up! I joked that this might be due to him going out to lunch with the Pixar guys. Though, no one really knew what the hell was going on.
But no, this gets better. Pissed off people from the two-and-a-half classes that are not getting their final grades because this guy is gone go find the dean of Animation. And drag him to their classroom to show him that everyone was about to get screwed for their final marks (oh and I should mention that their animations and several assignments were due the next day?). Well jsut as they drag him to the class, guess who shows up to class more than an hour late?
My teacher. With the Pixar guys AND the associate dean of the arts (rank higher than the dean of animation) in tow - he had gone to lunch with all of them, it seems.
Well, the students were so very fed up with him at this point that they surrounded him and lambasted him in front of the very guys he had been trying so hard to impress, as well as his current employers. I wish I had been there. I'd had the chance (as I was one of several people who should have gone to see him to try and prove to him that I wasn't a dunce but I opted to do other things).
So yes...I'm highly satisfied with this. I know I shouldn't revel in it but this ass had it coming for a long, long time.
Does this man you should draw erotica? That is really up to you. If you can make sales and do well with only cheesecake-y pin ups without revealing anything, awesome.
I'd like to think one need not cater to certain styles just to make a buck, but it is a fanbase that likes it's furry porn.
Guess that doesn't help, does it?
Up to you, but don't do anything you don't want.
I mean everyone else does it, does it mean you have to leap off the bridge too?
Thats my thoughts, you should do as you feel.
It is flipping a coin and as most people may love the yiffy thing there will be the other group that will detest it and well thats all I have to say and hopefully that helps.. -shrugs-
Ultimately, the choice is yours. If you feel like you'll "sell out" by doing nudey pics, then I recomend not doing it. If you think you'll still enjoy doing the art and don't have a doubt, then go for it.
I mean, well over half this site is yiff, so people'll get their nekkidness one way or another. If you want to contribute to the nekkidness, then there's your answer!
Hope that helped ^_^:*
I'm kind of going through something of the sort with my comic. I think I put too much innuendo into the writing, in an attempt to appeal to a wider furry audience. Now I'm not so sure that was a good move. Something tells me that my characters deserve better (and it will be very easy to change the text before printing). This is subjective, and only I will know the right decision. That said, I'll echo what others have said here, and reiterate that it's a matter of personal preference.
You could always ask them which one they want. :)
Oh, keep up the clean stuff anyway, thats just as good. :)
*gives you directions to the yarn ball pit*
My only advice is.
Proioritize and keep a good balance of your adult art and non-adult stuff.