Weasyl is a fledgling site right now but it's not run by awful people like FurAffinity. I would say so far people there seem more active than on deviantART. There is a lot of furry art but.. basically it's like dA but with a crowd that is a little older (as far as I can tell.) I wouldn't stress too much about what to upload there, though.

As for commissions, right now the userbase is just taking off so it might not be as easy to get commissions there as it is here. Just advertise a lot, upload a lot, and do a lot of networking. dA is the worst place to get commissions because most people there are 13 and don't want to pay for anything anyways (even if it weren't 100% illegal to enter into a contract with a minor!)

Hopefully the medicine helps you out! My psych has been putting pressure on me to get back on my pills but uuuugghhh u_u side-effects, bro.

thanks for commenting!

i thought i remembered hearing it was a little baby site, but it looks great. good to know it isn't run by idiots, let's hope it stays that way. i'm eager to get into the community, right now i'm on my own little teeny island that is just my profile. idk where to look for other artists. i suppose things are set up generally the same as they are on any other art submission site and there'll be a watch/follow button on someone else's page somewhere?

do you have an account there? o:

i hope it technically isn't basically like da. da has the worst damn community. it's a worthless place. i hope weasyl's a ton better than that. i guess i'll find out first hand soon enough lD

i wasn't gonna try to get commissions right off the bat but that's something to think about when i do decide to open them there. thanks for letting me know! i don't know how to network though. or what that really means. i have no connections so i couldn't even if i wanted to. i usually just rely on my followers just happening to spot a commission journal i made, otherwise i depend on getting commissions from the rpg forums i go to. but even with those i only get a few commissions a year. e_e i don't think i've ever gotten a commission from anyone on da, come to think of it. only fa and forums. i don't have luck getting them to begin with though. when i do try weasyl i won't have my heart set on it or anything, just like everywhere else. but it's just as good a place as any for me to ask.

thanks c: sorry to hear that though! i personally just. am desperate to get help with my health problems. give me pills. so far i havent had any side effects... let alone pills that have actually worked to help. so i've got nothing against them, but eventually my good luck with missing side effects will run out. even so i hope what i have now helps and will be something to build off of. i'd rather have side effects from meds that work some than pills that do nothing to help me at all. u_u

I do have an account and I like it well enough. I'm Tanginello over there as well. Here's a handy tool for tracking down your FA watchlist over on weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/1969.....watching-on-fa

I would say it's like dA in that it has sort of a similar interface and a similar distribution of art subjects. Not so sure about the community.. as far as I'm concerned dA is a ghost town and weasyl doesn't have enough people to start forming community. I did like the dA "community" features like groups but maybe weasyl will implement something like that down the line.

I get commissions basically by posting a lot, answering ads, and by word-of-mouth and re-ups by my previous clients. Admittedly, hitting cons helps but I honestly think the best thing to do is post a looooot and encourage other people to re-post your stuff when they buy it.

I think some people are really lucky and just don't get side effects. Like they have strong immune systems or something and so nothing bad every happens to them regardless of what they take. I have like a really wimpy system or something 'cause everything gives me terrible side-effects or like deadly allergic reactions. Hopefully with a little bit of dose management you'll be feeling good! It's kind of a pain to like try different dosages and whatever but when you finally get to the point where it really works it's great!

omfg! thanks so much holy crap. that will certainly help me a ttooonn. i can't track 229 people manually, that's for sure. i followed you there as well 8D it's unbelievable how many people are leaving fa. i'm only leaving as soon as there's really no point to staying... in reality, there really isn't for me anyways. most of my commissions might come from here, but those were rare occurrences to begin with. they'll just be rarer and rarer till there's just no point in being here any longer. things were better for me a few years ago. but people have become less friendly and no matter how much work i put into my art, nobody even looks at it. so. u_u i'm impatient enough as it is with fa. time to start getting used to and getting to know weasyl.

that's why i'm liking the layout. it's more modern and new, even if it's somewhat like da. i mean shit, it's a fuck of a lot better than fa's interface. that's been the same old, clunky, glitchy, stupid thing for longer than i've been on here with pretty much zero improvement and 100% broken "promises". i usually stay out of all that shitty drama, but this right here is a new low, jesus.
i'm hoping weasyl does do that type of community features down the line. they're bound to, at least. since they seem to care about their site--proof being that it isn't some stone-age interface going on-- they might be working on it or thinking about it at least. that would be cool. da lacks the friendly-type community that fa's had in the past. with pretty much all of fa moving over there, perhaps the community will be more active overall and be nice and welcoming where da isn't. i'm being pretty optimistic for once overall about this, anyhow. the furry community has always been nicer than the da "community".

i'll take a note from you on that. next time i open commissions i'll start to take those actions. i never thought of having my customers repost with credit, and i always feel too bad to ask friends to advertise for me. so i usually just make a journal and continue to bump/make more until i give up LOL or completely under sell myself to get customers e_e i do everything wrong jesus. cons are so far out of the question for me. maybe many years in the future, but any time soon... i'll just have to rely on yer advice until then 8D btw post a lot... of art in general, journals... both?

ah that makes sense!! i'm one of those that must ... well hell i do have one hell of an immune system. i havent been sick in over five years, even when dad came home and got super sick or my grandparents did. so that would explain that. i only have one medicine that gives me a side-effect type thing and it's not even one listed and it's better to deal with a little soreness than an awful migraine. aha, but yes, hopefully! i'm working my way up to my normal dosage and in six weeks going back to see how things are going. i'll prolly get new medicine then, focusing on my neck pain and migraines rather than adhd and depression. but shit it sure does take a lot of time and effort to get to the point of getting medicine that helps-- i mean, in my experience, i've never had a single doctor take me seriously. i just get ignored until my MOM says something, then he asks me about it even though i fucking mentioned it three times before and my records reflect it from years previous. i hate doctors, i do. but this is a start. i just wish everyone had better luck in general with medicine-- if the side effects for things that could really help people weren't so bad, more people could be helped because they wouldn't hate being on the medicine enough to not take anything.

wow somehow getting way off point on this journal but thats ok LOL i'm just happy you commented and i'm enjoying talking to you 8D

I read journals lol since I watch only like 100 or so people

I made a weasel tooo not long ago I think I just watched you
Kind of hope the FA hate sling dies down though, I don't know I'd rather not start anew since I'm particular about who I follow and I've grown to like the community but c'est la vie I guess

Good luck with everything irl dude!

yer the only person on the internet(aside from nello up there) that does then!! i rarely do. i watch 229 people though, i can't keep up with journals, but i'd only read friend's journals. which i don't now cause of the stupid amount of people i watch. >_>

i saw you on there! i watched you and sent a friend request 8D so far yer the only friend i've seen on there. i'm hoping weasyl takes off though, it looks like a great site and a good place to become the new fa.
fa is always having hate, but this time it's too serious and it's the tree that broke the camel's back. and i hope they pay for it-- in terms of karma, fa is waaayy overdue for getting what's due. this is the worst i've seen it since i've been a member. but there's ALWAYS been drama ALL the time previously. i never paid attention cause i never look at the little announcements. on any given news journal of theirs people start flaming and ranting and freaking out and not even about what the subject of the journal even was. it's fa. fa is a piece of shit, honestly. LOL ancient goddamn site that's had like 0% improvements since those same promised upgrades from many many years ago. they're bound to go down in flames from it one day. didn't know it'd be over them allegedly hiring a fucking rapist and then getting defensive about it and doing the usual "hide all comments that speak ill of us" spree. e_e it's a train wreck. fa is a train wreck omg.

now this isn't to say i don't like the community. i've stayed here for so long cause of how nice the community is! nicer than anything else i've seen, certainly by comparison to da. it's why i'm hoping weasyl will take off and do well and have a great community too with all the fa users jumping ship and moving over there. giving the fledgling site a fighting chance to get up off the ground.

aha thank you!! same to you. 8D if all goes well i'll be submitting so much more art. here's hopin'~