Let's get this off the bat immediately: If you read the headline and exclaimed "YAY, SHE'S DRAWING PORN NOW" or, alternatively, "Aww god dammit, she's drawing porn now..." Sorry to say, that's not really happening.

Not exactly.

What I AM doing is relaxing my ratings regarding pin-up nudes of solo characters. Or, specifically, I should say I am going to tentatively test the prospect of relaxing my ratings regarding pin-up nudes of solo characters.

I discovered this fandom when I was a wee freshman in high school in 1997 via an oooooold website called YERF. Yerf had very strict ratings guidelines, and myself being 15 felt no real desire to break them at the time. I started discovering more of what we shall refer to as the "seedy underbelly" of the fandom before I even graduated High School, and that coupled with my desire to get onto the heavily-curated under-PG13 YERF (which I was accepted in 2001 as a college freshman) put me on my "No Porn For ME" path very early on. I've stuck with that path since then for a variety of reasons, though none of which included a personal hatred of porn and nudity. And let's be honest here: if furry nudity legitimately bothered me, I'd have run screaming from this fandom YEARS ago.

I've been going back and forth on relaxing my ratings for years, but something always held me back. A lot of it was fear; fear of what "someone" would think if they found me drawing dirty art. Fear of attracting weird, creepy people that I would sometimes see lingering in the comments of friends' porn posts or at their convention tables. Fear of That Scary Guy getting the wrong idea about who I am and what I like because I drew something for someone and coming onto me. Fear of having random strangers explain their deepest sexual fantasies in detail, and fear of someone asking for/assuming/spreading rumors about mine. And most of all, fear of losing the respect of the fans that had gotten to know me as a Clean artist.

Now, at 32 years old, with 15+ years of varying levels of activity in this fandom and approaching my 11th year vending at Anthrocon, I've come to the conclusion that I'm kinda just tired of being afraid of those things.

(Ok, the last thing IS still a fear, but I hope you guys know me well enough and like my work enough that having a nipple or ball show up from time to time won't make you want to tie to me to a rock and throw me in the Hudson River.)

Anyway, Here's the Deal....

Starting at Anthrocon, you will be able to come to my table and request single-character nudes. They will ONLY be available on request; even if the rest of your book is full of porn, I'll still default to PG-13 rating unless you ask. I'm considering a surcharge to prevent every commission from simply turning into a nude-fest, likely around 25% extra, but I'm still debating that. I still don't really want to draw hard-core pornography. It's weird territory for me, and to be quite honest I don't think I'd be any good at it. Therefor, on top of any nudes being solo pictures (no nude couples), I'm also going to restrict poses to more cheese-cakey pin-up type stuff.

I'm not gonna list specific things I'm not willing to draw, but use your common sense. If you come up and ask for your character shown from behind masturbating with a hotdog shoved up their ass, I'm gonna say no. However, if your character is sitting with a hotdog bun in his lap cradling his dick and he's making a "Come out to the ball game" joke, I'd probably draw that. Humor trumps sexy for me anyway; I'll do sexy, but if all I got were funny-but-naked sketches all weekend, I'd be OK with that.

Any nudes are intended to be non-sexual. What does that mean, you ask? General obvious rules I'm setting now are: no juices (or solids... y'all know what I mean), no spreading, no inserting, no masterbatory activities of any kind. More will likely come up, but as this is new to me it's hard for me to list everything your creatively dirty minds can come up with. I'll have allowances for some playful/tease type poses, within reason. Just be polite if/when I decline something, as arguing or even trying to bargain with me is not only going to make me dig in my heels more, it'll make me WAY more likely to never ever draw nudes ever again. No means no.

On that note, what I need from you guys is this: Please please PLEASE don't be weird about this with me. I don't want to sexy RP with your characters, I'm NOT drawing a Lizardbeth nude for you (and probably not most of the other BPD cast either, especially if it's out of character for them, unless you have a REALLY good idea and ask me really, REALLY nicely and promise not to get upset if I say no. Liz will ALWAYS be no though), I don't wanna hear all about your weird fetish involving Rand Paul, cuttlefish, and Butterscotch Ice Cream, I'm not gonna tell you mine, and no I'm STILL not gonna draw you hardcore porn so don't push me for god's sake. If this doesn't go well and I get too many people trying to use me relaxing my ratings to push even harder for the hardcore stuff, or if anybody goes Super Perv on me, I will end the experiment and not ever do this again.

I'm relaxing my ratings because I realized my fear of what might happen was keeping me from doing something that, to be quite honest, doesn't bother me at all and hasn't bothered me in a long time. I used to draw REAL LIVE NAKED PEOPLE IN COLLEGE, for god's sake. But if you prove to me that my fears were justified, than that'll just be that, I guess. We're all adults here, people (I hope). I'll draw your stupid boobs and penises, because they're REALLY not a big deal to me. But I beg you, PLEASE don't make it a big deal out of it or so help me I will turn this nudie bus around and go home. .

...ok, that sounded needlessly harsh, but what I'm trying to say is, if you're worried about whether or not you'll be That Guy? Just... don't be that guy. Be nice. Be respectful. Ask. And if I say no, accept it OR let me offer a compromise that I would be comfortable with. But please don't make those weird fears I have into a reality. I'm a reclusive introvert. I spook easily. ;^_^

As long as Anthrocon attendees don't scare me into never attempting any art past PG-13, whenever I open commissions up after the convention, everyone will be able to request nudes of their characters if'n ya wanna (not a requirement, obviously. Pants are still cool, y'all). I will let you guys know the results of the experiment post-con.

I dunno how many people this will interest, since there are SO many people in the fandom that do WAY MORE INTERESTING STUFF than I do, but if you're one of those people who'd really like me to draw them something like this, than hooray! :D Just remember to be respectful. Please please pretty please? ;^_^

And if my ratings shift bothers you at all, (a) I'm sorry if it's a disappointment/surprise, but sometimes things change and this was kinda a small change I've been leaning towards for a while, (b) I promise not to ever draw nudes for you specifically, and © I will likely never flood my account with adult work. I don't anticipate it being a flood anyway. It it ever becomes that, I'll make a separate FA account to keep it away for those who still want to cling to the illusion that I'm a good lil' angel baby that never says naughty words (spoiler: my language makes Sailors CRY)

WELL, uhh..... I guess that's it. Feel free to ask questions below, if you're curious about it.