NEW TUMBLR HERE: https://www.tumblr.com/musclemoustache

Good evening, again! Heh, I guess it's now easy to count all my yealry journals with hand fingers right?

Oh well, just a couple of heads up for the moment. First of all, I've went back to Tumblr!

Originally I had a more personal-esque tumblr account which... wasn't a much healthy place to post recent art as it joints with pre-pandemic artwork., but since *Current Twitter Events* happened, I've been doing some quick research about where else to share my art and to not die in the process. And, after another type of current events with other art sites (no need to mention it this time), Tumblr was the best option.

So you can follow me on my brand new Tumblr 2.0 Riiight here: https://www.tumblr.com/musclemoustache

In other new, I hadn't completely abandoned FA at all! So expect me to find more exxxtra laaarge stuff around here!

Also also, commissions are still available BUT might be a bit slower. So you can ask me about my WIP prices and do's + dont's of what I can do, through my discord.

Stay tuned!

-C

Hey guys. It's been a real while since I've got the chance, or need, to write a journal.

Don't wanna be TL;DR -ish with details as it is involved with IRL stuff, so I'll try to sum it up.

I've finally been hired for a job, since last November, and it has been a really great experience for me. I'm still there, and I plan to remain there as well. Since then, I hadn't had much problem dealing with this, commissions, and other projects that I've been doing at the same time.

Unfortunately, time has been more strict this past January, and it looks like it's gonna be also like that for the rest of the year. This has complicated my existing queue and I don't wanna disappoint my current and past clients. But what really motivated me to make this statement, is in regards of not so recent news involving Paypal

Basically, it has been reinforced that Paypal is going to reduce it's minimum gap from 2,000 usd a year, to 600. If an user receives more than that income in the said timelapse, said user is required to file their own taxes. More info can be found in these 2 links:

https://twitter.com/ClionaSplash/st.....44868416016390 // https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/irs.....nsactions.html

As an artist who works and lives outside the US, I don't know how this is gonna affect me. So I just wanna play safe, as if dealing with taxes of a single country was already annoying enough. With this being said, I've decided to close commissions, again, until further notice as I don't wanna have any risk for me, or fellow friends who use paypal.

But no worries for those who're waiting for a commission of mine. I'm still gonna work on those, but they might take a while to produce and deliver.

Thank you for reading to my current status, I apolgoize for the inconvenience, and I wish you all have a pleasant week.

-Cedric

For ten years, the time I was around in FA, I was always a wallflower. Just one of those ghost icons with the brush bucket for icon, making art just for the sake to be ignored. I've come to that realization once I've seen how poorly my drawings were doing, and still do, online.

What did I achieve in that matter of time, with artistic knowledge, the right contacts and the "skills" I've acquired? Nothing. Nothing at all. Just a shitty number of faves that don't even reach the basic standard of 100 faves on the same day. A miserable number of follows that would make a newcomer proud like the biggest artist on earth. No comments at all.

I'm honestly debating myself if to keep my FA account around, or at least posting stuff here. But it's pointless, when there are better, greater, and more kind artists that not only made actual effort to be at the place they are now. They've become friends, and colleagues, with other artists that are superb as them, and even with people who don't even draw and somehow are for the likes of those artists. Why do I have to be the ignored one?

My absence won't make any difference, but it won't make someone sad, worried or even try to get me back. I still don't know if I'll do so, but I feel like it might be the best for the community.

I apologize for being here.

It's interesting how, when we were taught that having feelings of giving up and ending things it's ok, we as furries feel like the end of the world when someone has such thoughts.

The events that were piling up through this year made me realize the possibility that a furry art career, like everything else, has an end. Such as the need of looking up for a job that means a better income, personal motives that prevent them to do art, or even... death

As we see many, -many- newcomers entering the fandom day by day, we get further away from the idea that there are also people who are leaving the train. Even to a point, we see a hollow spot that used to be filled with someone we either just knew about or known from ever.

I don't ask for all of us to be ok when someone stops doing art on a platform to move to something else. But we don't have to attack said person begging to not leave or automatically say the words you hadn't said when you had the chance.

It's about being more aware of the finality of things, as everything in life, so we can appreciate the most all artists, users, and friends we have now in the present. And so, when it's time to go, accept said point and move on to the next thing.

"A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin

P.S. I'm NOT saying I'm gonna quit or anything. Just came to this realization

Hey guys. How goes? I'm trying to set up some things.

First of all, I'm -really- thankful for your support this year. Not only for improving my art career to a level I was never able to think of, but to keep me doing the stuff I love. And so as I love doing this, and as a demonstration of love and respect to you guys, I'd like to ask you for some feedback about some modifications to the tiers.

The Trainee tier would remain the same, but both Bodybuilder and Heavyweight would change a bit, mostly in discount for commissions (since I cannot change the price for each at this point, which personally sucks). As I also plan to delete the King of the Gym tier, mostly since I think it's a bit over-priced compared to the quality of the pictures, time I spend doing those and when do I post everything. I wanna be as fair as possible with my clients/patrons and treat them with the respect they deserve.

Depending on what you guys believe would be right, I'd adjust the past and future rewards so that all the tiers receive what they're paying for. And despite me being the one providing the content, it's more up to you guys what would be the best for both sides.

Thank you for reading all this TLDR thing, I love you, and be safe!

-C

This is something like a mix of feelings that got stuck in my head for the past couple of months, but it was -certain event- which pretty much you all know at this point (please don't type down which one it is), that triggered all those thoughts at once and motivated me to write this down.

I've been having some... great trouble trying to keep active on doing art, as I got a feeling or realization of my art career inside the furry fandom is a road leading to nowhere. Not gonna lie, I love it here. It's thanks to all this that I got authentic friends, acquired new skills, finally made a small profit out of it, and earned the confidence I thought lost when I met even more talented people close to me. But as I got some point of that recognition, I asked myself "What's next?" or "Am I gonna do this forever?". That's when the self-doubt kicked in.

I just lost confidence in my art, being harsher towards my mistakes and putting an emotionally angry effort into not making them on the next pictures. Started regretting all the decisions I've made, wishing multiple times to go back and not doing those things that maybe would make me happy by avoiding. And last, disappearing and making people forget about me by my absence, was a thought I considered the best for the community, at least for the people who know me the better since my presence or the drawings I made were not powerful enough to make people proud of me.

And then things got... well not worse, but definitely didn't help that out. I just wanted to give up in general, making myself believe my time at the fandom is over and it's time to move on, to let the seat to another artist who can fill it properly. At this point, all that I've written down here, it was something only some friends knew, as I tried to find comfort to go on and not letting this affect my daily basis. But the words any single of my pals, my bros, the artists I look up to and I have the honor to talk with, they've all supported me on their own way that, combined all of their messages, would result in a massive letter of good vibes and wishes. It was the first time in this week, I wanted to genuinely cry, to let all this go out of my system.

The reason why I wrote this down is so I can express better how I've been feeling in the past days, to let this all out in a proper way instead of emotional tweets that I wrote wherever I felt any kind of bad. And also to express my new hope for the future of my career as an artist in general, with a new focus on what to do and how to make the new decisions that await me. I also wanna thank all of the people I've asked for help from, all those who stomached my rants and vents. You guys are the real motor, the real-life of this gallery and account. This gallery, these pictures, are alive thanks to you. I wanted to say it, so much.

So... yeah. Maybe I feel some better after writing this, and the only thing that's left to do is to go on. I know I can, I just like to complain about the process.

So long and give your loved ones a hug from me.

-C

Hey guys, sorry again for making LOOOOONG pauses between journals, but I think right now it'd be worthy.

In a matter of months, my college days will finally be over. Those were really good times, but right now I'm gonna be in the need to find a job or a way to promote myself the better outside the furry fandom. Sadly, last year and mainly this year, the majority of my works is the pieces you've seen in either twitter or here, and I've barely done stuff outside school stuff that I can include in a new demo reel / portfolio to show at companies or studios in a hope to hire me.

I kinda now it's pretty late to redo some stuff, but if years of living in the edge of due days of homeworks and projects taught me there's always time to fix a problem. So, my solution to add more pieces to my regular art portfolio? "Charging a half price discount on commissions I can put there!"

How does it work?

-Forcedly SFW. It can have some content toned down so it wouldn't be tagged as adult here on fa.
-Toned down fat/muscle. If the character doesn't have a crazy mass OR has a reasonable amount of extra body, is acceptable and candidate for the discount!
-Non-furry bait designs. If your fursona, or OC, or friend's fursona /oc, have some crazy colors or unnatural tones/patterns BUT ain't precisely someone outside the fandom would call a fursona or a furry, it can have the discount!
-Not Available on Sketch and Lineart. The discount will be applied if the commission is either a flat color piece or a full shaded piece.

Ok yeah sounds good. But Why?

Simple. This would be a commitment between artist and commissioner.

The artist have some benefit bc it can increase the gallery that can share with more people that ain't precisely furries and get a better recognition and reception, and maybe a job or something... And the commissioner gets a cheaper commission, have their ideas spread the same as the gallery, AND be a part of the history of something bigger than us!

AAAAAAND that's pretty much it! In case you have some doubts, questions or anything you wanna add to this, I'd love to see them at the comments and, if your idea or question supports the construction of this deal, I'll add it to this journal.

Thanks for reading this and have a good day!

-C

Early this morning, and probably past days this week, I've been having doubts about my art and reception of it based on the numbers my art has on both twitter and fa (what a surprise).

After talking with a friend and analyzing my doubts, I guessed it would be good to open a suggestion box for my followers to drop some ideas or suggestions about what would you believe would be better for me to draw.

So I'm open for any idea you drop here.

(No, this doesn't mean they're requests nor art trades.)

Greetings, everyone!

I'm hitting the big numbers at my patreon, and to celebrate said event, I'm letting every patron by far, no matter it's tier, to suggest a pic for the next rewards for the months of may! Come and grab a chance for your ideas to be drawn and shown to a VIP audience starting with 3 USD

https://www.patreon.com/fatwuff
https://www.patreon.com/fatwuff
https://www.patreon.com/fatwuff

Ok, these are... not so good news.

Me and  darthtater342 had been thinking about the future of this project. It all started when the actual olympics were delayed for at least a year due the pandemic we are currently going through, which meant some trouble for me at least keeping the name of tokyo 2020 commissions. Days later after those news, we both had been getting some issuse on our sides, making us barely able to keep on doing visual works as we used to.

Those factors made us have a sight about what our fellow customers may feel or be doing these days, if they may have enough money to buy us commissions or slots for this event, if they're having troubles that keep them from consuming furry art. Me and Tate want to show our support during these days to come, so we took the desicion to call the project on hold meanwhile the lockdown is active, or when the economy of our customers can satisfy our client-seller needs.

I hope this is a wise choice to make and, if you have some insecurities or questions, don't hesitate on asking me personally about this turnaround, I'll be happy to clarify some stuff.

I apologize to those who hadn't received any artwork related to this event. I'm really sorry.

Meanwhile, regular commissions will go on as before. Thank you for understeanding.

-Cedric

https://www.patreon.com/fatwuff
https://www.patreon.com/fatwuff
https://www.patreon.com/fatwuff

Hey guys! I made a brand new patreon for my kink art, as I try to get a clear head about the last journal. All details are in the links previously written!

Hey guys... I'm not needing help right now, everything is fine. But I do really need some advisory about Patreon

I took the desicion to make a Patreon to increase my intake a little bit more. But problem is I don't exactly know what to do there

I got 2 posible ways to do it:
- PERSONAL PROYECT: I got a story on the planning since I got in college and some proyects there are linked to said story. A way to make the patreon is to give some follow up to that proyect and publish stuff related to it

- Personal Gallery: This would be pretty similar to what you see here and my twitter, but more elaborated and for exclusive people. Pretty much based on  ConnerCoon 's Faux Paux comics.

The reason I made this journal is because I'd like to see what you guys think, about what to choose from these two. What stuff is usually done in the patreons you are subscribed to, or if you have one how does it work, etc. So I can start with the -right- foot *ba dum ps*

Thanks guys for assisting me.

-C

Hello guys. This is gonna be a rough thing to write down.

The following desicion is a group of thoughts, feelings and events I've been dealing with ever since 2020 started.

First one, and pretty obvious, I got a twitter. For my surprise, it has been growing real fast, even to a speed I couldn't even imagine possible. This made me get more feedback and reception there, such as quicker response to my drawings, more numbers of like and retweets, and more people noticing my stuff. Leaving my FA account in a... lesser place I've been building it up through 2019.

Second one. College life hasn't been real easy. And now that, since past Tuesday, the university has declared an undefined strike made by the students, to demand a better safety inside campus, on public transport, and street. All of this due the killing of three college students past weekend, that has been the last straw to the insecurity my country deals with everyday.

And the third reason ain't a reason persé. but rather a feeling. The more I've been here, ever since I made the twitter account, the FA profile has grown hollow in a sense of a lack of art from my part, and reception from the people who has watched me grow here. It's not discouragement that I'm getting worse or anything, it's just furaffinity is slowly stopping to be a place for me to be. Been feeling weird everytime I get in and check out the newest pieces of my fellow artists I've known here, dunno what does it exactly is.

Just to be clear, I won't leave here. This journal is more of an explanation and warning about why I wasn't much active here in FA, and probably won't be for a long time, and I'll move my activity and focus more on twitter. It's in my profile if you are willing to give me a watch, like or anything, I'll appreciate it from the heart.

ALSO. Still working on commissions already on my commission queue and still open to do more, just... will take real long to upload them on FA. Including the Tokyo 2020 Thematic Commissions.

Thank you for reading all of this. Don't worry, I'm ok and I will remain ok, thanks to you.

-C

Hey everyone, me and  darthtater342 are more than ready to begin the special commissions to celebrate tokyo 2020, but we just found out there are still available slots for it and we would rather prefer to begin once all the slots are taken! So please take a read on the rules here and check out the slots below:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/34116399/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/34116399/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/34116399/

SLOTS:

100 Meters:
Gymnastics: TAKEN
Swimming:
Table Tennis:
Canoe:
Skateboarding:

Due the upcoming Paypal changes ocurring on September 25th, I decided to rise up the prices on some aspect of the conditions, plus more details about them

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/28191826/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/28191826/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/28191826/

Go follow me with the tag FatWuff I'm there like that

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guess it won't be proffessional from me to do this, but I'm needing to do a reminder of the drive

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/32806401/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/32806401/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/32806401/

tomorrow is the last day to donate, guys!

This is gonna be short. There was some typo at the amount of weight gained notified by one of the donnors. I fixed it and submitted the change, in case somebody found it odd the change on the numbers.

Thank you

I'll try to be a bit short on this one and go to the point.

This week, as I started an internship program on my college (have to do a year of this in order to get the degree), has been a bit busy for me, and I am gonna be also busy for the weekend. So the round 2 of the Neon Palmtrees growth drive is gonna have a delay and be submitted on Monday.

And as I wanna also catch up with the commissions, the monday is now gonna be the date I submit the following rounds until the drive ends.

Thank you for comprehending, and if you guys wanna suggest a different date, please let me know!

Been thinking... The Growth Drive (which I will remind you of cause the donation period is still on) is gonna be a huge boost to both my economy and writing skills, but guess I would still need money after it ends. So guess I will be open for commissions again.

Ah. Today has been a good day cause I finally got to finish my shoulder immobilzation period. I'm able to move it again and it will be a matter of a month and a half, I guess, of physical therapy sessions to be almost 90% cured.

As a form to celebrate the heavy part of the recover is finally over, I'm gonna do something special for you guys and as a thank you for your patience during these days. For the month of August, I'm gonna be making a new Growth Drive with an original story of my own. I'm gonna post the details of said story and how the drive will grow once I have stablished my Schedule for the next semester of College.

Also. From now on, the following content I'm posting here since today will be original content I'm doing for the days to come. Thank you for the support on the lost material submitted on the month of July. I appreciate I am still worthy of your love.

Take care you all and love your shoulders. They will repay you.

-C

This journal is a bit of TL;DR alert. But I needed to share this anyway to let you guys know this kind of things is wrong and needs to be stopped at the moment

Ever since I got into the furry fandom, mostly here on FA, I've encountered with many people in my life. Some of them are wonderful persons that happened to be my Friends, others were like known people that you see most of days, and others… aren't precisely the people you'd like to ask to hang out. And this journal is about this third type.

I'm not gonna say the name of the person I'm gonna write about, because of both you knowing who I'm referring to by this point and in respect for the person in question (after all, it's a human and as it is, it has a right for respect).

From the moment I graduated from high school,  darthtater342 (or Tate) and me became Friends and basically was the step one to a ever growing circle of friendship, but I happened to be closer to Tate the most. As the months came by, there was a third Wheel that wanted to be around both of us as well. It was pretty cute on the first days, just a guy admiring our work and wanting to become Friends with us. But then, things became a bit darker.

It's a Little sin I confess to do free art for some of my Friends who can't afford it, that I get silly with, for a special event, or just because they inspire me. I don't say it's a bad thing unless you do it properly, but this person became to do it with both of us ONLY. It was nice at the beginning, but then most of his gallery is pictures dedicated to us, mostly Tate. It was a bit annoying and we talked to this person about this behavior, and the fact that he has been drawing for a long period of time and still not improving at all. So, instead of doing what we advised to them, they kept doing the exact opposite with strength.

It all started when I found out Tate has broken up with an ex. During the whole emotional procedure, I needed/wanted to give him some space for until he's ok again cause it was more of his thing. Sadly, this person did the exact same opposite. Of both of us, it was Tate who was the closest to, believing my friend was ok again and ready to seek for other half of his life. This upsetted me to a point I didn't want to get close to him or send any message, cause I was in a belief this person and Tate were actually dating, and was using me as a tool to reach Tate so I won't get "left behind". Ever since then, I wanted to avoid this person not only because he kept sending notes over and over to see if I'm available for "friendly chat" as I didn't came back to Tumblr at all cause of this person (and that is also the main reason why I don't prefer the furaffinity note system that much), but also because he ruined the image of Tate's bull fursona for good. Mostly since it was the image I had from him and grew to like it, but now it's something bittersweet that doesn't feel good to use, so Tate got to use his German Shepherd form back, the first one he had.

Remember that I wrote about his art that 50% of his gallery is pictures of Tate's bull fursona and mine? Well it went real further, to a place no man shall ever go to. He began to suddenly steal ideas from either me, Tate, or other artists who features our fursonas. Then he moved to literally trace drawings me, Tate or someone else did, and it scaled up to stealing art directly from US. There's even a pic he stole that featured both of us, him and  RockytheProcy who btw got his claws into, but not in a way he did with me and Tate, thank god.

Mixing these last two paragraphs I finally reach to the boiling point. Last month, Tate has done a Pride themed drawing of his Gshep zona and did a flat alt of said picture, because Tate is also into flattening as I'm into fat. Yesterday, Tate was told this person literally traced that alt picture, replacing his fursona with the person's. Now that picture, and many other stuff this person has done over the years, has been reported to FA authorities to see if they can do something about it, we both blocked him, and then he decided to make the best idea he ever had. Throw an online tantrum and writing a full journal (probably larger than this one, cause I hadn't seen it yet and I refuse to look at it's profile) calling a witch Hunt uppon both of us and closer Friends.

The reason I am writing this down, and that I insta blocked him without any chance of talking to him previously, was because:

A) He's not a good listener. We've begged him to stop doing this kind of stuff and to move on to some people, but he doesn't follow any advice. I'm tired of dealing with persons who do the opposite to what they are told to do. It's disrespectful.
B) This person has been acting over obsessive with me and Tate to a sick level. Even forgiving Tate for personal issues my friend has been having, checking FA the whole time by the clock to see whenever me or Tate submit a new picture and be the very first person to comment and fav it, or using our characters without any consent of ours. I know you want to surprse us with gifts and stuff, it's grateful, but even for that there are rules.
C) What this person has done on his journal is not right, for anyone. It makes you look like a Little kid, it gives a bad image of us and the people who will believe this crap, it's filled with misinformation leaded by emotional rage without meditating about the words, its meaning and consequences, etc. And I know I'm doing the same thing over here, but my objective is not to hurt, but to let you guys know what's going on to get a bigger picture. That's all.

This is for all you guys: Whenever you see someone's having a toxic behaviour towards you, talk to that person immediately and make sure they won't do the same. I don't want to see you getting targeted on a tantrum-level journal like this. Prevention is the key.

And if this journal reaches the person I'm talking about, this is for you: We told you many times to stop. I don't know about Tate, but I need you to take this as a time for reflection for what you did, how you treated us and how you built your image to the rest of the internet. Sadly, we won't give you the chance to come back at us when you changed for good, not anymore, and I want you to think about it before writing down a shit letter to us. I don't know what's gonna be about you in the future, and frankly I don't wanna know, but this cannot happen again, to a person that is gonna hurt you a lot emotionally, or committing something that will have you kicked out of ANY social network you get registered to. Live with that.


Guess that's all for today. I want you to live happy, and let others live happy as well.

-C

TLDR ALERT

Welp, it has been 2 weeks since I posted a journal in regards on my current condition, and I feel like you guys deserve an explanation or a broader view about the whole situation.

Turns out, after hurting my shoulder back in middle of May, I was told by a 3rd doctor (having already 2 doctors that gave a not precise diagnosis that was just a portion of the overall condition) that I required a surgery asap. Once the surgery was done 2 weeks ago, I was told to have the shoulder and upper arm (bicep are) completely immobilized for 6 weeks, and then physiotherapy sessions for half a month after the shoulder is able to move back again.

This is a bit perfect, cause the surgery was scheduled once I finished ALL my school projects and pendants I had IRL, and I could manage the summer to relax a bit and earn some rest. During these weeks, I found out I was able to still use the computer for gaming. Not sure if I'm able to draw again, maybe I shall test it out but don't wanna rush it down or make a movement that will throw down the effort of the surgeon and mine.

About this last point, I was thinking over the past days and wanted to make something for you guys. I'm still not posting nor making new drawings for July, BUT I wanna ask something. To keep the account active and present on your feedbacks, I was thinking on submitting drawings I made but didn't make the quota for submitting here the time those were made. It does not mean I was doodling again once I got out of the hospital, but part of my dilema is to make it so it won't look like that happened.

Would you like to see lost material or not seen before of my stuff (basically the same old you seen, but bit different)? Lemme know in the comments

That would be all for today. Take care!

-C

I will try to be short. I've been involved with serious medical stuff, related to my arm and having a surgery. So the aftermath is that I won't be able to move it for at least July and some weeks of August. So there won't be new drawings on this site during that time.

Thank you for understeanding

Hey guys, Just wantes to make something real quick about my status and art situation

First of all, I would like to apologize for those commissioners who asked me stuff in the past and never got the art I still owe you. It has been a bit difficult for me with some emotional issue I had and heavy school Works. I assure you guys I will try my best to get to those the sooner the possible.

And second of all. I've had some results about how my arm is doing. Basically it's just a limited movement issue, followed by some delicate shoulder bone (or Humerous) but I believe the treatmen isn't gonna take that much. Fortunately, maybe I would be able to draw again after some weeks of not doing so. I'll try to get in touch with past drawings I made before the incident, the commissions I owe, and also new stuff for the future. Plus something related with the shinies system, I'll asure you it's gonna be worthy

Thank you for your patience and comprehention. You guys are the best.

-C