if you want 4 hours of awesome digital fun, FOR FREE, i recommend the digimon story; time stranger demo. pc, ps5, xbox something or other. IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/.....Time_Stranger/

i mean i was already pretty fucking hyped for the full game, but i really can't believe they gave us this much of it FOR FREE ahead of time, and after playing it to the end, i can confidently say that all the hype is justified. it's so fucking good. i'm in love. cyber sleuth was good but this is better in literally every way.

probably gonna be fewer attacks than usual cuz this year continues to be a nightmare, but i maintain my stance of always revenging folks who attack me with art that respects my permissions, so if you want something from me, come get it; https://artfight.net/~AlphaGodith

don't currently have the setup for normal commissions (paypal broke on me with no explanation and i haven't made the transition to stripe yet) and not really interested in doing the usual mermay ones anymore anyway (especially not while fa isn't even accepting uploads so it would be awkward to advertise and post for). i injured my hand pretty bad last time and it's been mostly weird fetish stuff for a long time, when i really just want to do cool design work and focus on the beauty of sealife. (nothing against fetish stuff, i have another account solely for that, it just isn't what i want to do right now)

anybody got any INTERESTING mermaid characters? or realistic aquatic anthros? or creatures/monsters you wouldn't really call a mermaid but follow the general bodyplan with a finned tail instead of lower legs, and arms on top?

i was considering drawing a mermaimon or ancient mermaimon because fuck yeah digimon, but the cleavage focus turned me off. maybe if nobody has anything for me i'll just redesign them to be less horny.

keep thinking i should open up for commissions cuz i do need the funds but MAN am i enjoying being able to draw things -i- want to draw for a change.

...and also my prices are so low that i'm really cheating myself with them... like that unimon pic took me around 10 hours, and i'd only charge like 35 bucks for it??? that's not even close to my country's already stupidly low minimum wage!
but who would be willing to pay 100 bucks for something like that, from such an unknown and slow artist as me? idk... i want to keep my prices low so anyone can get something from me, but what's the point of having low prices if i can never open because it just straight up isn't worth the amount of time and effort i put in? especially when i'm old enough that i actually get hand pain/damage from trying to work at a decent pace for people...

also having some issues with paypal. like actual technical issues, on TOP of hating them as a company and all the fees. i want to switch to stripe maybe cuz it's the oldest alternative i know of, but i don't know anybody who uses it that i trust enough to advise me on it, and i also have some bank stuff i need to switch first for other reasons as well...

what's a free email i can use that doesn't shove ai down your throat and is actually designed to work well on a pc instead of a phone? obviously i can't use google or yahoo anymore and search engines have degraded to such a point that all my attempts to find something myself have been worse than useless.

my favorite comfort game that i won't shut up about is on sale for 11$ right now! it's an exploration/survival/crafting/building game, sort of similar to minecraft but more realistic and detailed, with more of a focus on building and the ability to do so at a useable scale with high detail, AND the ability to export those builds as obj files! survival features are still being developed and the developer is a super chill guy that anyone can talk to and discuss features with- i've contributed a lot of tweaks to the game this way myself.

again, it's just 11$ right now, and you can make some REALLY cool stuff in it, and the world is beautiful, and it's just a great way to escape the horrors.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/...../Rising_World/

this is a sculpture i made in the game btw; https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55096790/ and the house frame on the store page with the blueprint table in front of it was made by my husband, board by board. (tho you can skip that and just build whole walls at once if you prefer)

i shouldn't have to say it, but these are the way things are, so, for the record, people who unironically nazi salute, those who cheer when they do so, and those who think it's fine/not a big deal are not my friends and i will not tolerate them. feel free to unwatch me if you feel targeted by this journal.

the world is pretty much ending and i dunno about you but i'm gonna try and enjoy what time we have left and help others do the same by spreading kindness where i can.

happy new year.

i just realized i've never been commissioned nor heard of someone commissioning a SPECIFIC resolution/ratio image so they can use it as a phone wallpaper or desktop background. huh.

you know how when a lot of really bad shit happens but you keep on trucking and get through it okay and you're looking forward to this one simple thing to help you keep going and then that one simple thing completely crashes and burns and something that would be silly to get more than mildly upset about on its own thus completely devastates you in a completely unrecoverable way?

yeah

disappointment, fear, and rage aside, i will try to be there for people affected by these disastrous results as much as i can. if you fear the regime coming down on your head, you can use screenshots of digicode text to communicate with me. it is a simple cypher you can easily find online but i doubt the machine translators will pick up on it.

okay it's technically a mini tv series but it only takes about 2 hours to watch the whole thing. it's only on amazon unfortunately but you can watch it for free if you have prime or get a free trial, which they pretty much are always offering (just remember to cancel it when you're done so it doesn't start auto-charging you, which really should be illegal...)

trailer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxCmkPjCNk
watch it here; https://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Tr.....se&keywords=the+edge+of+sleep&qid=1729783611&s=instant-video&sprefix=the+edge+of+sle%2Cinstant-video%2C202&sr=1-1

it's an indie-made show and some bigwig has made a deal with markiplier that if it can get in the top 10 over an average 30 day period, he will get to send his ACTUAL horror movie, iron lung, to theaters. and hollywood is a bunch of pricks so that's pretty much the only way we'll get to see that movie.

trailer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8E8Ryx49so

so check it out if you like horror/drama, just want to support indie devs/stick it to the man, or just as a favor to me! and if you like it, please tell others about it! as part of the deal it's not getting ANY actual advertising so we have to do it all by word of mouth!

i really wanted to do witch and wizard related coms this month but i have been struggling with a few things and refuse to open more slots until my current work is done, to be fair to my current clients. i am still here and wanting to do art tho, it's just slow going.
i wanna do inscryption and digimon fanart too... i even figured out how to make the inscryption cards actually playable in-game! and i got a minecraft texture pack to upload and-

anyone else think we need 'i survived the 2024 fa outage and all i got was this lousy t-shirt' t-shirts? and the proceeds could go towards the gofundme? (and i'm just saying outage and not hijacker or somethin' cuz i don't feel they deserve the honor of having a more direct acknowledgement)

it's right at the top of the page but in case you don't pay attention to that, this is something super important for the continued existence of fur affinity that you should look into;

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10933053

if fur affinity dies or makes a deal with ai assholes to keep running, remember you can find me and my art on tumblr, pixiv, and newgrounds. tumblr has super handy tag blacklist functions, and both tumblr and pixiv have multiple images per post functions. pixiv also specifies that any ai posts must be labeled as such and can easily be filtered out. newgrounds... well it's newgrounds i guess. i also respond to dms on discord (just remember to actually tell me why you are friending me asap) and my username is always alphagodith.

less than two days left (the fight was extended out of july briefly due to outages during) and i just finished all my revenges so that's it for me this year as far as artfight goes (not gonna try and do more when nobody would have time to revenge anyway). didn't do as much as i wanted but with a hand injury it was more than i expected i'd be ABLE to do, plus got some real nice attacks and made some friends! so, i'm callin' it a win regardless of the actual outcome.

i'll be taking a little break to make sure i don't re-injure my freshly healed hand and then working on owed art before i open up any more slots, possibly as early as september but could be as late as november. we'll see. if you didn't see my last journal, i'll only be opening for four slots at a time, so, if you do want something, start thinking it up now and check my commission tab for options. i'll probably give it a week and if i get more than four requests, i'll just take whichever appeal to me most.

i've been struggling with varying forms of hand pain all month, and most of last month as well, making it difficult for me to draw, and forcing me to take many days entirely off, as well as wearing braces and heat pads and things.

i believe it's a result of how hard i pushed myself to do so many, so detailed mermay commissions. those were supposed to be way rougher but i tried too hard to make them pretty, and i worked myself for too many hours each day to try and get them done within the month.
trying to do as many coms as i can in a limited time frame is very taxing to begin with, and selling them at a discount on top of that was just stupid. i pushed myself EXTRA hard for LESS money, ensuring an injury that didn't even get me enough to be worth the pain/damage.

i certainly don't want to risk losing the ability to draw entirely, so i'm not going to do any more themed month-long sales. my prices are already very low anyway. i may open for themed commissions sometimes, but rather than being discounted it will be normal prices and i just won't take any orders that aren't that theme. and no more than 4 slots per month. if you want even cheaper art, you're going to have to go for my 'minimum effort' option, since that's the only way for it to be fair to me.

i'm going to have a greatly lessened presence on artfight this year due to developing carpal tunnel syndrome and also just being a bit busy, but i will maintain my policy of revenge. you draw my boy https://artfight.net/character/3036552.wizardmon for me, i'll draw something of similar point value for you. for more info; https://artfight.net/info/about (remember this is during july only, drawing attacks for artfight in june is against the rules)

also, tomorrow is my birthday :P

if you are commissioning art of a dog, you don't want a picture of a cat, right? and i don't want to spend hours upon hours drawing something only to be told 'that isn't right, re-do it' upon completion.

going back-and-forth with clients to try and parse what a character should look like takes significant time out of artists' schedules that could be used to actually make art, and thus costs us money, on top of just being annoying. having a proper reference sheet so we don't NEED to clarify things, or so any such messages are minimal, is SO nice, and not only makes our lives as artists easier but ensures that YOU will be happy with the art you get. remember; if it isn't shown on the ref YOU provide us, then we will interpret it however we want, and are under no obligation to 'correct' our art for you.

so here are some simple suggestions for getting yourself a reference sheet that artists you commission will be happy to work with;



1. TEXT SUPPLEMENTS. it is not always clear in every style what sex or species a character is, especially toony or amateur art and with characters that don't strictly conform to stereotypes. in realistic or semi-realistic styles, and even in toony ones if the artist cares enough, these things DO change how we draw characters, and are thus important to clarify in text, since we may not be able to tell from the image alone. even if your character has markings that are typically associated with a particular species, it is still very helpful to include text confirmation of the intended species, since it is not at all uncommon for furries to have unrealistic markings, nor will every artist know about every possible animal species AND be able to recognize it at a glance. i've seen dogs with tiger stripes, and frankly, a lot of art on here there really isn't any difference between dogs and cats, so again, DO NOT assume your character's species is obvious. at minimum, you should have the character's name, age(not every character is mid-twenties and chibi styles make it IMPOSSIBLE to tell age), sex(and gender identity/pronouns if different), and species written on the ref. other text should be VERY minimal- time is money and many artists will outright ignore text if there is too much of it.

tldr; your reference should have as minimal text on it as possible, but be sure to include your character's name, age, sex (biological- if different from identity, include that too), species, and height. these are important details that may not be evident due to the art style of the images, and will have an impact on how others draw the character.


2. MULTIPLE VIEWS. unless your character is a very basic species and all one color, we need to be able to see it from multiple angles if you want us to draw them in any pose other than the one on the ref. if you don't have a back view, i can't draw the back of your character, because i have no way to know if there are markings there or what they look like. if you only have straight-on side views, and your character has a marking on their neck, there is no way for me to tell if it continues under the jaw or if it stops right on the crease there. if your character's feet are flat on the ground, i can't tell if they have paw pads, or what color they are. and yes, some characters have different colored pads on their hands versus their feet, so i DO need to see both. close-ups work great if you only need to show one other thing and don't want to spend money on an entire extra fullbody to do so, and are also very useful for detailed body parts, such as faces. realistically proportioned, it can sometimes be difficult to tell what color a character's eyes are just from a fullbody, so zoomed-in headshots are also very helpful even if you have a fullbody that shows the face already. you can also do this for inner mouth and flesh shots. DO NOT cut off a character's limb in a fullbody shot to show flesh, unless you want artists to draw them missing that limb all the time. just include a little cutaway off to the side.

tldr; anything that isn't shown can't be drawn. front, side, back, even top and bottom views of a character are absolutely necessary. you don't need very many images if the pose is right, but everything must be visible SOMEWHERE.


3. NO SHADING. on some characters, with some shading styles, for some artists, it can be okay, but in 99% of cases, shading can make it difficult to tell what is markings and what is lighting, and in some, even hide entire body parts. so no, just having swatches off to the side for color picking isn't enough. it definitely helps, but a flat-colored reference is way easier to work with in almost all instances. there are some times where shading can be useful for telling texture or shape on more detailed characters, so it can be good to ALSO have a shaded version of your ref, but if you can only have one, go with flat, and simply use text supplements to mention details that shading would have shown, such as whether seemingly smooth body parts are meant to be furred, scaled, or just skin, and things like that.

tldr; either provide both a shaded and a flat colored reference, or ONLY a flat colored one. shading makes markings and other details difficult to see.


4. CLOTHED AND NUDE. remember that if you don't show it, we can't draw it. if you give me a ref of a fully clothed character and ask me to draw them in a swimsuit, i am going to reject the commission, because i do not want to go back and forth guessing and being corrected on what the character looks like under their clothes. this also goes the other way- if you show me a nude ref but want me to draw them in a situation where they would be dressed, you need to show me the clothes you want me to put them in, or be willing to accept whatever tacky, out-of-character style i might come up with on my own for them.
additionally, for adult artwork, you need an adult reference sheet. i have seen artists misunderstand a sfw smoothed-over male crotch as the character having lady bits, and they refused to correct it because they had followed the ref they had been given. even if they had interpreted the character as male, furry bits vary WILDLY so it would be unwise to assume they would draw what you had in mind without SHOWING them.

tldr; unless you only ever want your character drawn in exactly one outfit as if it is fused with their body, their nude form and other outfit samples are necessary.


5. STYLE. you should NOT make a reference sheet in a chibi/highly simplified or especially unique art style unless that is the ONLY style you want to get art of them in. if you intend to use your ref to get art from a wide variety of artists, you need it to be in a style they can ALL interpret and easily translate into their own. remember, realistic details can be simplified in many ways and still be technically accurate, but if you provide an extremely simplified reference, there's no telling how it might be interpreted or what details artists may come up with to fill in the gaps. text supplements can help a lot with this, but no artist wants to have to read what could have just been shown visually.

tldr; unless you only want a character to ever be drawn in one particular style, don't use an especially unique/stylized or simplified/chibi art style for your ref sheet.




remember, if it isn't shown on the ref you provide us, we're in no way obligated to 'fix' our art for you. don't leave up to interpretation something that matters to you.

don't tell someone how to do business when they didn't ask (especially if you have no idea what you are talking about), and also don't be a huge prick to someone when you have a favor to ask of them! cuz they sure aren't gonna be inclined to help you out after you spit in their face like that!

you're welcome for this incredible insight :)

most of the art you see on my page was actually drawn at least three times. i can't just draw an image straight from my head first try, i have to draw it badly, see what i don't like about it, redraw it with that in mind, and so on before it results in something i deem worthy of posting. and yes, that goes for the WHOLE picture, not just a few parts here and there.

a lot more time goes into this stuff than you might think!

decided to make this a limited slot deal so i don't get overwhelmed.

i am offering painterly wing-it style commissions where i turn your character into a mermaid for 20$ a character! (background is just implied underwater, may or may not add other vague details if i feel like it)

alternatively, for 5$ less you can get a disney's little mermaid themed clone ych; https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56479275/

1.  frysco - special request; fin arms - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56506870/
2.  tayohshadowind - three characters, special request; coconut bras - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56904214/
3.  lurkingwolf - special request; entertainer - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56555147/
4.  Dragon-Tear - wings https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56646501/
5.  Wolfbyt - amputee https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56713363/
6.  Zeelo - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56815567/


to reserve a slot, note me your character REFERENCE SHEET (if you want it to be accurate i need multiple angles/views and NO shading), which version of the sale you want (20$ wing-it or 15$ clone), and the email i should send the invoice to.

anybody interested in mermay themed commissions for 20$?

i'd be using this style; https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....nektember-2019 but with regular sona+fish half instead of a total species change. (these are mermaids for mermay after all, not just generic aquatic anthros)

or 15$ for this exact pose; https://www.furaffinity.net/view/31417902/

i need to replenish my wallet and i'm just about to finish the big piece that was preventing me from taking new work, so, i will be offering some same-day quick/cheap commissions!


8$ for one of these adorable chibi loafs; https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56369340/
(or 10$ for one of those PLUS a little gif of it flapping its hands happily)

or

10$ for a simple voodoo doll style fullbody, something like this; https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55572081/ or https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56411102/ or https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56413122/
or

10$ for a quick cell shaded rubber duck version of a character


you could also get all three to really help me out and treat yourself to an awesome grab-bag of different styles for the same character!

(note that the commissions are done through paypal and the commissioner will receive a non-crapified original resolution version for private use)

as usual, if interested, send me a note on here with your choice of commission type, payment email, and character reference sheet and i'll get back to you asap.