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Posted 6 days agoMy good friend banzu is doing a multislot YCH full of butt presenting, it's pretty NSFW and worth a shot!
I made a base for that so the ass is the best quality according to my standarts!
Check it out here:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62830176/
I made a base for that so the ass is the best quality according to my standarts!
Check it out here:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62830176/
Status update
Posted 4 weeks agoFirst of all, I have to say thank you everyone who keeps supporting me, share my art in different communities and just to everyone who's following me and like my art. I appreciate you guys a lot!
Unfortunatelly I haven't been active lately and I wanted to explain why!
You may already know I have a depression disorder from my previous journal updates. This is still the case but I've gone through a long therapy and depression itself isn't such a problem anymore even though it still persists.
But recently I've also been experiencing the strongest art block burnout in my whole life. From what I tried to figure out this is due to 2 main reasons: hand pain (2 hours into drawing and I'm suffering) and not liking my own style/skill.
Right now I'm trying my best to adress these issues and I'd say I have some progress here! But it's still far from solving. Therapy and good perception of yourself is a pretty long and exhausting process.
Also, I wasn't taking any commissions and YCHs recently as well. I have a big queue of commissions I have to finish and feeling the strong guilt about it just doesn't let me take any new entries in list.
Some fund savings allowed me to live a whole year without much income, but of course I'm running out of it pretty soon. Pretty bad timing as I have many other health related issues that needs funding to be healed and fixed.
Good thing I at least worked my way out of the art block burnout and started to work again. It's not much, but it's at least something, so I think I'll be fine.
I'll upload some Halloween themed YCHs soon and will do my best to work both on existing commissions and YCHs and some new ones as well. If you wait for a finished art piece from me - I'm very sorry that I have to make you feel frustrated. Thank you for your patience. I'll do my best to finish it as soon as I can and I'll try to make you feel that it was worth all the waiting! All I need is just a little bit more time.
And thank you for reading this.
Unfortunatelly I haven't been active lately and I wanted to explain why!
You may already know I have a depression disorder from my previous journal updates. This is still the case but I've gone through a long therapy and depression itself isn't such a problem anymore even though it still persists.
But recently I've also been experiencing the strongest art block burnout in my whole life. From what I tried to figure out this is due to 2 main reasons: hand pain (2 hours into drawing and I'm suffering) and not liking my own style/skill.
Right now I'm trying my best to adress these issues and I'd say I have some progress here! But it's still far from solving. Therapy and good perception of yourself is a pretty long and exhausting process.
Also, I wasn't taking any commissions and YCHs recently as well. I have a big queue of commissions I have to finish and feeling the strong guilt about it just doesn't let me take any new entries in list.
Some fund savings allowed me to live a whole year without much income, but of course I'm running out of it pretty soon. Pretty bad timing as I have many other health related issues that needs funding to be healed and fixed.
Good thing I at least worked my way out of the art block burnout and started to work again. It's not much, but it's at least something, so I think I'll be fine.
I'll upload some Halloween themed YCHs soon and will do my best to work both on existing commissions and YCHs and some new ones as well. If you wait for a finished art piece from me - I'm very sorry that I have to make you feel frustrated. Thank you for your patience. I'll do my best to finish it as soon as I can and I'll try to make you feel that it was worth all the waiting! All I need is just a little bit more time.
And thank you for reading this.
Double Buttjob YCH BOOST!
Posted 2 months agoKitchen Party YCH BOOST
Posted 5 months agoMIMIC SCAM WAVE, BE CAREFUL!
Posted 6 months agoThere's a wave of scam going on recently among my friends. I believe they target smaller artists, but no one's safe from the villains.
To anyone who doesn't yet know what's the deal: Scammer is fishing for YCH sold outs, quickly finds the buyer's Discord if there is one and sends them a friend request. Of course their Discord pfp and nickname is impersonating the artist. Sometimes it's Telegram too.
I don't have any secondary accounts and never use other people to communicate with clients, also I NEVER add anyone on Discord myself and always sending a note on Furaffinity or message on Twitter/X asking YOU to add my Discord username to friends. This way you could be sure you'll communicate to me and only to me. I recommend everyone to do the same. Contact the artist on their verified official FA / X / BlueSky accounts and only ask for their verified username, don't accept any friend request on Discord or in Telegram unless the artist confirmed this action using the account you got the YCH or commission slots from. Also I highly recommend you to hide your Discord and Telegram nicknames from your Furaffinity page or anywhere else. Always share it with people you want it to be shared with. And be careful and mindful, especially when there's money requests involved, check things twice, please.
Also, even if you get a message from the verified social media account, it could also be hacked, so check twice WHERE you send the money. In 98% of time I'll use Boosty to accept payment and sometimes Hipolink, so be careful with that too
These are my verified social media accounts:
dashshepard
https://x.com/DashRavo
https://bsky.app/profile/dashravo.bsky.social
https://boosty.to/dashravo
https://hipolink.net/dashravo
Again - I only share my Discord with the client using notes on FA or message on Twitter/X. I don't use Telegram for work with a very few rare exceptions, but same logic applies here - you'll get my Telegram nickname through the verified social media.
Thanks for attention
To anyone who doesn't yet know what's the deal: Scammer is fishing for YCH sold outs, quickly finds the buyer's Discord if there is one and sends them a friend request. Of course their Discord pfp and nickname is impersonating the artist. Sometimes it's Telegram too.
I don't have any secondary accounts and never use other people to communicate with clients, also I NEVER add anyone on Discord myself and always sending a note on Furaffinity or message on Twitter/X asking YOU to add my Discord username to friends. This way you could be sure you'll communicate to me and only to me. I recommend everyone to do the same. Contact the artist on their verified official FA / X / BlueSky accounts and only ask for their verified username, don't accept any friend request on Discord or in Telegram unless the artist confirmed this action using the account you got the YCH or commission slots from. Also I highly recommend you to hide your Discord and Telegram nicknames from your Furaffinity page or anywhere else. Always share it with people you want it to be shared with. And be careful and mindful, especially when there's money requests involved, check things twice, please.
Also, even if you get a message from the verified social media account, it could also be hacked, so check twice WHERE you send the money. In 98% of time I'll use Boosty to accept payment and sometimes Hipolink, so be careful with that too
These are my verified social media accounts:
dashshepard
https://x.com/DashRavo
https://bsky.app/profile/dashravo.bsky.social
https://boosty.to/dashravo
https://hipolink.net/dashravo
Again - I only share my Discord with the client using notes on FA or message on Twitter/X. I don't use Telegram for work with a very few rare exceptions, but same logic applies here - you'll get my Telegram nickname through the verified social media.
Thanks for attention
MAKING OUT YCH 2 SLOTS LEFT! (BOOST)
Posted 8 months agoI'm off to a vacation trip
Posted a year agoI won't be able to access Furaffinity nor Twitter from 19th of June to 6th of July, so if you want to contact me, e-mail to dash.ravo[at]gmail.com preferably with your Discord nickname and what would you like to talk about. I'll try to write you back in a few days
Anal Masturbation YCH BOOST!!!
Posted a year agoI have a depression, turns out
Posted 3 years agoI've been diagnosed with depressive disorder, which explains quite a lot. Looking forward for treatment, already got ADs and will start them tomorrow. I'll try my best to keep work going but we'll see how my body and brain will react to the treatment. Will keep you updated
EMERGENCY COMMISSION SLOTS OPEN! (Boost)
Posted 3 years agoIMPORTANT UPDATE FOR MY CLIENTS AND AUDIENCE
Posted 3 years agoMostly this post is for my clients, who ever commissioned me anything and still waiting
But if you're interested in what I'm going through right now, that's a post for you too
It's a status update, what's going on, when the commission will be finished, what are my plans
So, you might have noticed I've been going through quite a hiatus. Procrastination is still a problem, the queue size is unbearable, and not like it's enough - hand pain gotten worse and worse. I wasn't been able to draw more than 2 hours a day, even with 5 minute breaks each half an hour. I even feel like it might be psychosomatic. Currently I'm slowly trying to experiment with ergonomics and my approach to drawing, my technique. And alongside with that, I had a week off and I have some improvements, it got better, but the pain is still present and brings quite much frustration
Queue is a bad word, my list of commissions have no priority or direction, so it's just a list of commissions.
Right now I have more than 20 entries in YCH/Fullshade category, and a dozen more in other categories like sketches or flatcolours. I had worse numbers, but that time I was way more enthusiastic, had more energy, had more stable mentality and the hand pain wasn't such an issue. It's different now, and of course I had improvements over the years, but mostly I'm sliding down the hill of mental stability and will.
I had thoughts about giving up drawing entirely and do something else for living. I'm tired. Even tired of my own style and mistakes I make in each work. I'm tired of this stupid ass hand pain which isn't really even carpal tunnel syndrome, though I might have that as well. And I'm tired of always having so much entries in my list, I always feel stressed and can't relax and rest properly because of the guilt and self-blame. And then I open twitter or something like that and see so many artists being able to draw many hours on livestreams without any issue or tension, I see many artists having cool styles, I see many artists just... Drawing. Something. Enthusiastically. Enjoying their work. Coming up with some cool or funny situations to draw their OCs in and not because of money exactly, but because it's fun. I can't do any of that. And it makes me feel weirdly defected and inadequate. And I just feel hurt. Of course, there are people who's in a way worse position than mine, but well, I have what I have, I can't tell my feelings and my mental state that I should be thankful for even being able to do something.
I remember once one artist (who I'm not revealing the name of, who know they know) made a massive refund to all the clients because the weight of the commission list was unbearable. Quite a controversial move, but sure understandable one. I for sure understand why they did that even back then, but today I so wish I could do the same.
It's not a thing I could do though, even technically it's not possible, but even if it were, I think I still wouldn't want to do that.
I had an idea of doing basically the same thing, but keep the list of clients and how much they paid me, so they could later come to commission me or buy YCHs with their "credited" money I already received and used. But I assume most of my clients will prefer to keep their initial commissions and YCHs, so they'll just commission a "new" thing with the same ideas and characters. And not like it's the ideas and characters I don't want to do, it's only the size of the list. But yeah, in any case, waste of everyone's time and it'll be more confusing than it already is.
With some thought and consulting with friends I decided I'll make a new list of commissions. This will be the "high priority" list, and it'll only have about 2-3 entries. Those are things I'll contact the person behind and work on it exclusively. That way I could focus and not think about everything else. I won't even see every other entry, until I do when I'll refill the high priority list. But that's at least something that could harm my mental state a bit less.
It could as well be just one entry, but I need a little room for maneuvers if I loose track or will need some rest of the first one.
[UPDATE]
Forgot to say that, yeah, I don't have much saved funds to live on, so I have to get more commissions to pay all the living expenses plus bank loan. I'll try to get as few as I could, and, that might be a bummer, but I'll put all new commissions to highest priority, so I'll clear them as fast as possible and will return to older ones. I understand that older commissions deserve higher priority more, but this way it just feels more right for me, I can't really say why. Maybe I just don't want to pile up my list with even more entries, but instead make it so they practically won't even be in the list for more than a few days. I'll still have time to work on older commissions.
My plan... No, my dreamy wish is to finish all the entries in all my lists by the end of the year. But I always failed any deadline I tried to put, so it's not a promise, not even a vague estimation. It's a wish like the one you send to Santa. I'm tired and I want to finally rest in a thankful universe. I only wish that this list will be empty for once in 8 years. Not for a long time, of course, as the drawing commissions is still my only income, even though I have many skills. But well, at least for a few days or maybe a week I will be free of guilt and self-blame.
I won't lie, if anyone of my clients will be ready to just shrug it off, basically gifting the money to me and saying "yeah sure dude don't worry about it, better focus on other ones that need it more", dear God I won't feel any guilt for accepting that without hesitation (and much appreciation). Yeah, I know, it's quite a bold desire, but well, that's how desperate I am, and those are my honest thoughts. But of course I don't expect and don't even think of anyone to make such a move, it's just... A funny observation. I value people's money and that they trusted me their funds so I could make them happier. If I wouldn't value it so much, I wouldn't feel myself awful about my procrastination and unprofessionalism in the first place.
I'm very thankful for all my clients that they commissioned me, and the amount of trust and patience they give. For real, I had to be canceled as a procrastinating scammer (I'm not a scammer of course, just a very seriously struggling soul) a long time ago, I still can't believe it didn't happen. Yeah, well, I'm sure people have their opinion on that, and probably judge my work ethics and trying to keep others from commissioning me. I'm sure it's a thing somewhere. But I guess I deserve that. And still am very thankful for this amount of trust and patience everyone give me anyway. I appreciate that a lot.
In conclusion. If you're my client, wait for when I contact you. I'll try the approach of working alongside with you, showing you WIPs and discussing relevant things. That's way easier for me to keep working on something, as it brings me some feedback, enthusiasm and will. You better have Discord though! Don't worry I won't require voice chatting, I'm not that good in it anyway.
But yeah I'll also ask if you wish to change anything, basically treating it like a commission I just got, so if you reading this, and you commissioned me something, and you do want to change something you better be ready with all the details and references
If you made it this far, thank you! I appreciate you care about me. Hope this post cleared some things up for you. I'll update you on my status more later.
But if you're interested in what I'm going through right now, that's a post for you too
It's a status update, what's going on, when the commission will be finished, what are my plans
So, you might have noticed I've been going through quite a hiatus. Procrastination is still a problem, the queue size is unbearable, and not like it's enough - hand pain gotten worse and worse. I wasn't been able to draw more than 2 hours a day, even with 5 minute breaks each half an hour. I even feel like it might be psychosomatic. Currently I'm slowly trying to experiment with ergonomics and my approach to drawing, my technique. And alongside with that, I had a week off and I have some improvements, it got better, but the pain is still present and brings quite much frustration
Queue is a bad word, my list of commissions have no priority or direction, so it's just a list of commissions.
Right now I have more than 20 entries in YCH/Fullshade category, and a dozen more in other categories like sketches or flatcolours. I had worse numbers, but that time I was way more enthusiastic, had more energy, had more stable mentality and the hand pain wasn't such an issue. It's different now, and of course I had improvements over the years, but mostly I'm sliding down the hill of mental stability and will.
I had thoughts about giving up drawing entirely and do something else for living. I'm tired. Even tired of my own style and mistakes I make in each work. I'm tired of this stupid ass hand pain which isn't really even carpal tunnel syndrome, though I might have that as well. And I'm tired of always having so much entries in my list, I always feel stressed and can't relax and rest properly because of the guilt and self-blame. And then I open twitter or something like that and see so many artists being able to draw many hours on livestreams without any issue or tension, I see many artists having cool styles, I see many artists just... Drawing. Something. Enthusiastically. Enjoying their work. Coming up with some cool or funny situations to draw their OCs in and not because of money exactly, but because it's fun. I can't do any of that. And it makes me feel weirdly defected and inadequate. And I just feel hurt. Of course, there are people who's in a way worse position than mine, but well, I have what I have, I can't tell my feelings and my mental state that I should be thankful for even being able to do something.
I remember once one artist (who I'm not revealing the name of, who know they know) made a massive refund to all the clients because the weight of the commission list was unbearable. Quite a controversial move, but sure understandable one. I for sure understand why they did that even back then, but today I so wish I could do the same.
It's not a thing I could do though, even technically it's not possible, but even if it were, I think I still wouldn't want to do that.
I had an idea of doing basically the same thing, but keep the list of clients and how much they paid me, so they could later come to commission me or buy YCHs with their "credited" money I already received and used. But I assume most of my clients will prefer to keep their initial commissions and YCHs, so they'll just commission a "new" thing with the same ideas and characters. And not like it's the ideas and characters I don't want to do, it's only the size of the list. But yeah, in any case, waste of everyone's time and it'll be more confusing than it already is.
With some thought and consulting with friends I decided I'll make a new list of commissions. This will be the "high priority" list, and it'll only have about 2-3 entries. Those are things I'll contact the person behind and work on it exclusively. That way I could focus and not think about everything else. I won't even see every other entry, until I do when I'll refill the high priority list. But that's at least something that could harm my mental state a bit less.
It could as well be just one entry, but I need a little room for maneuvers if I loose track or will need some rest of the first one.
[UPDATE]
Forgot to say that, yeah, I don't have much saved funds to live on, so I have to get more commissions to pay all the living expenses plus bank loan. I'll try to get as few as I could, and, that might be a bummer, but I'll put all new commissions to highest priority, so I'll clear them as fast as possible and will return to older ones. I understand that older commissions deserve higher priority more, but this way it just feels more right for me, I can't really say why. Maybe I just don't want to pile up my list with even more entries, but instead make it so they practically won't even be in the list for more than a few days. I'll still have time to work on older commissions.
My plan... No, my dreamy wish is to finish all the entries in all my lists by the end of the year. But I always failed any deadline I tried to put, so it's not a promise, not even a vague estimation. It's a wish like the one you send to Santa. I'm tired and I want to finally rest in a thankful universe. I only wish that this list will be empty for once in 8 years. Not for a long time, of course, as the drawing commissions is still my only income, even though I have many skills. But well, at least for a few days or maybe a week I will be free of guilt and self-blame.
I won't lie, if anyone of my clients will be ready to just shrug it off, basically gifting the money to me and saying "yeah sure dude don't worry about it, better focus on other ones that need it more", dear God I won't feel any guilt for accepting that without hesitation (and much appreciation). Yeah, I know, it's quite a bold desire, but well, that's how desperate I am, and those are my honest thoughts. But of course I don't expect and don't even think of anyone to make such a move, it's just... A funny observation. I value people's money and that they trusted me their funds so I could make them happier. If I wouldn't value it so much, I wouldn't feel myself awful about my procrastination and unprofessionalism in the first place.
I'm very thankful for all my clients that they commissioned me, and the amount of trust and patience they give. For real, I had to be canceled as a procrastinating scammer (I'm not a scammer of course, just a very seriously struggling soul) a long time ago, I still can't believe it didn't happen. Yeah, well, I'm sure people have their opinion on that, and probably judge my work ethics and trying to keep others from commissioning me. I'm sure it's a thing somewhere. But I guess I deserve that. And still am very thankful for this amount of trust and patience everyone give me anyway. I appreciate that a lot.
In conclusion. If you're my client, wait for when I contact you. I'll try the approach of working alongside with you, showing you WIPs and discussing relevant things. That's way easier for me to keep working on something, as it brings me some feedback, enthusiasm and will. You better have Discord though! Don't worry I won't require voice chatting, I'm not that good in it anyway.
But yeah I'll also ask if you wish to change anything, basically treating it like a commission I just got, so if you reading this, and you commissioned me something, and you do want to change something you better be ready with all the details and references
If you made it this far, thank you! I appreciate you care about me. Hope this post cleared some things up for you. I'll update you on my status more later.
Help my friend pay the vet bills for his wonderful cat!!
Posted 3 years agoAlso please share with your friends, that'll help a lot! Thanks!
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