Find me there through this uniform resource locator:

https://bsky.app/profile/domidark.bsky.social

I have an Itaku if anyone's interested in following me there! Twitter is being dumb, so I wanted to give this a shot. It's still empty but I plan to upload to it soon. ^^

https://itaku.ee/profile/domidark

I finally made a Patreon! It has two tiers, a $1 one for seeing my finished works one week early, and a $5 one to see stuff I'm currently working on before they're finished! ^^ All finished works in there will eventually be public too.

Nothin' too crazy, it's just been getting harder to have a sustainable income on commissions alone, so I figured I'd give Patreon a try. I appreciate any support. <3 My first tier will have something in there soon. My second tier already has an animation I've been working on for about a year now (it's a more-finished version of dis: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48652532/ ).

You can cheque it out here: https://patreon.com/user?u=13303851

I just wanted to say thanks for all the support I've received through the years. I noticed recently that I was nearly at 600 watchers on this site and it uhh... surprised me. x3 I'm happy to see people get something out of my drawings. Thank ya for all the kind comments over the years and supporting me with commissions and whatnot. <3 I-I-I'm bad at these things, I'm sorry!

And well, I've had one for a little while now, but I figured I should officially announce it. I have a Ko-Fi! I couldn't see myself being able to maintain a Patreon or anything big like that, so I figured a simple donation box should be good for now. I shall leave the link here and on my profile (don't feel obligated, I won't die if you don't donate):

https://ko-fi.com/Domibark

Thx fo readin <3

Made myself a Telegram Channel to post my art in! It features both SFW and NSFW art as I didn't feel like making two channels, lol. I'm still in the process of uploading old art but I'm alllllmost caught up:

https://t.me/DomidarkArt

I'm gonna remove that last journal as it's too embarrassing. I want to make a clearer one that I can feel okay with having here. Thank you to those who reached out. I forget sometimes that there are people who care, but my brain just likes to play dumb and not think so.

I just want to say that I am not happy with myself or how my life is currently going. My home life isn't exactly what I want it to be. Sometimes I wish my fiance and I could just live on our own, but that's too unlikely to happen anytime soon. I just want to live somewhere where I won't feel like a nuisance to anyone.

The only upside right now is I've been breaking out of my shell and meeting new people these last few months and talking to other artists. What sucks is I feel like I'm biting off more than I can chew. I'm worried about what these people think of me and have been constantly checking my phone for notifications. It's made it extremely difficult to stay focused on anything. I think it's also what's been causing this insomnia I've been dealing with on and off lately. I hate this anxiety so much. I just want to be able to converse with people, people who get me, but I worry I'm too lame/weird for them. I get afraid to open my mouth sometimes. I'll try to take breaks away from social media to recoup, but every time I do I get lonely and worried they'll forget about me. It's an endless cycle.

It's such a dumb thing to be worried about, but I can't help it. I want to talk to a doctor and see about taking anxiety meds, but the side effects scare me.

If you see me randomly faving old artwork of yours it's because I'm gradually catching myself up with my submission feed that I've been neglecting. I'm almost down to 4000 now, lol.

I've noticed lately that some of my recent art posts have been unfinished sketches, instead of completed drawings with backgrounds, shading, all that extra fluff. I used to have this weird OCD thing where any art I make has to be "complete" before sharing them online. I think that way of thinking has been taxing on me creatively. I can see now that making little one-off doodles here and there is a lot more fun, so you might see more of those on my page from now on.

I know self-diagnosing isn't healthy, but I can't help but wonder if I have some kind of mental disorder, specifically to do with social anxiety. I don't get anxiety "attacks" like others do. My brain just kind of turns off when I'm around people and it makes me unable to socialize like a normal person. I panic and am unable think before I say something really dumb and off-the-wall. It gives me this constant feeling of embarrassment that takes forever to shake off. It's near impossible for me to make any friends because of this. And it seems to only be getting worse. I dread going into work everyday thanks to my constant fear of making a fool of myself and getting judged. I come off as moronic and brain-dead when I'm around certain coworkers and customers. I'm surprised I can even count change properly when working the registers. Simply texting with people can be a nightmare too sometimes. I come off as awkward, a try-hard, unfunny, cringey, etc. I like to think I'm self-aware, but clearly I'm not. It's like I'm trying to be someone I'm not in order to better appeal to the other person. Very rarely will I do a voice calls, though I wish I could do them more. I hate building relationships with people that are purely text-based. But ultimately, these relationships eventually fade and I always wish I had done things different.

With all that said, I will say that I am grateful for the few friends I have managed to make over the years. It's not often I can make meaningful connections with people.

-Domi

Hello, it's been a while since I've done one of these.

Since the last time I posted, my boyfriend and I moved to a better place sometime in March I believe, and I took a looong break from working. I couldn't handle the stress of holding a job and decided to (rather stupidly) for a few months live off my covid stimulus money and stuff I got back from taxes. I could've used that money toward something much better, but whatever, I did what I did and the break was somewhat refreshing. Now I got a new job at Kohl's and I'm slowly getting the hang of working again. They recently had me cashiering, which is something I always dreaded having to do because of my ridiculous social anxiety, but it's been getting easier I guess.

Outside of work, it's just getting super old sitting around doing nothing all the time. Even if it wasn't for the pandemic my situation wouldn't be different. And now it's getting hard to stay motivated to work on some recent commissions I got. If any of my commissioners are reading this, I apologize profusely for the wait. I'm already super slow at drawing as I am, so this doesn't really help my case. I am gonna put a pause on future commissions till I finish the current ones. I am super grateful for the people who got interested though, as I never saw my art being commission-worthy.

Thanks for reading.

[Edit: I cut out multiple things that bloated the journal and weren't worth keeping in.]

I just noticed it's been an entire year since my last journal. And man, what a year it's been. I have a few updates I'd like to share...

I finally got a job that I can tolerate (it's retail, but it's better than dish-washing), but now I'm 20 and can't go out and meet people or do anything fun thanks to a certain pandemic. Just been stuck inside doing a whole lot of nothing like I'm sure most of y'all are (though I'm sure some of you have been more productive than me :P). I've at least spent some of that time practicing my drawing, and I have some cool projects I hope to actually finish and post publicly at some point.

On a downer note, this pandemic has made my introverted-ness twice as bad as it already was. I've been cooped up in my crippling lonesome for so long that I didn't bother being active in this community and consequently distanced myself from the nice people I've met on these sites over the years. Now I'm hoping to change that.

To end off on a high note, my boyfriend and I are gonna be moving to a better place soon. The current place we've been living in for the last two years has been absolute hell, so we're definitely looking forward to that. :D

I hope you're all doing as well as can be!

~ Domi

<insert good reason for lack of content here>

I don't know for sure if I have an anxiety disorder, but I think I have it pretty bad. My last (and first) job was dish washing. It sucked, but it was away from customers and didn't require much socializing. Now I'm trying to look for another job that doesn't deal with customers, but I live in the middle of nowhere with few options. Any job I look into seems to only hold positions that are meant for leaders and people who can handle tons of work. I'm a fuckin' klutz, so I just don't trust myself to be relied on so heavily. I should just suck it up and just take whatever job I can find, but I can't seem to shake off the nervousness. When I was a dish washer, I never stopped thinking of what my coworkers thought of me. I was always worried I was slower than everyone else, especially since I tend to be a perfectionist. With that in mind, dish washing is a no-go. I also don't want to work in fast-food and I don't like the idea of retail, so I'm stumped. I wish something in art was an option, but even then I'm still learning, which is another thing I need to work on. On top of everything, I still need to find a way out of this bad living situation, and somehow get into college. I'm so overwhelmed.

Hello,

I don't really have any content to upload as of right now. I'm going through a really bad art block and don't feel motivated to draw anything full-fledged. I have an animation I'm working on but it may never even be finished. I haven't felt very creative since early high school and it's recently been daunting on me. I'm afraid of flooding my gallery with boring drawings of my fursona, since he's the only "character" I have (besides the unnamed fox character I recently made) and I'm still trying to think of what to do with him. I wanted to maybe make a comic series, but I have no inspiration for a premise or anything. I also need to practice more character design, because every character I draw looks the same. During this hiatus I'm gonna try to learn all that fun stuff, instead of doing this self-teaching thing that doesn't seem to work for me. I'll also take down my commission price sheet till I feel like I'm actually ready to sell my art. I feel silly having it up when I don't have a good portfolio to show for it, nor anyone interested. If anyone's willing to provide any critique on my past pieces from this year, feel free as it'll help me grow as an artist.

Thanks for reading.

Woo hoo I'm 19. Boy this year flew by

I've been a little distant from the furry community lately, though I'm not sure why. I think part of it's because of my current living situation making it difficult to find the privacy I need to do anything furry-related on my computer. I've been living with my BF and his uh... mom for the past 10 months and things generally haven't been going the greatest, I still really miss my family and Minnesota. And sorry about that last journal, if anyone remembers. I've been going through some stuff, but I'll be fine in the end.

Anyway, I'll soon start posting art again, and even want to take commissioning more seriously. I'm currently working on a (hopefully) easy-to-comprehend commission sheet that'll list off prices according to what's to be drawn! I'm very thoroughly thinking over the prices, because I'm afraid of charging too much or something, haha (I don't know what my art or time is worth!). Oh well, I'll adjust the prices as time goes on.

Thanks for reading!

I understand I don't really have the greatest portfolio at the moment for anyone to be super interested in commissioning me, but I just want to throw it out there that I am open for commissions. I have an idea for prices that I posted about here: https://inkbunny.net/j/344292-Domid.....t-commissions-
Soon I'll provide a better commission template with more defined prices. I won't do anything NSFW as of yet, but maybe in the future, haha.

You can comment or contact me via contact details on my profile page. :)

I've only been drawing my fursona for the longest time now and I'm a little embarrassed because I know he isn't all that appealing. I haven't quite figured out what his personality is even, he's pretty much just me as a wolf. He was originally gonna have a meaner/cynical personality, considering I named him "Dominance" (I wanna change his name so bad, but don't at the same time), but the situations I put him in barely portray him that way and I think he's better off not being a jerk. Anyways, I'm thinking of drawing new characters, but my character design skills are rather... shoddy. I tried to make a fox character recently, but he ended up looking a lot like Dominance, haha. Oh well, I really want to practice character design more, but I'm currently more focused on improving my facial expressions and posing, and I like using Domi as a base for that. I have a new drawing in the works that'll showcase this.

Thanx fo readin

I haven't done paid commissions before and would like to try it out (also, I really need the money!) So I'm thinking of starting out at 30 USD for a fully lined, colored, and shaded character drawing. It may look something like these:

- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29274560/
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29557287/
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/30151865/

You can pick whatever pose you want/whatever your character is doing. Also, I'm gonna keep these SFW for now, haha.

Pm me if anyone may be interested! :)

I realize I made a journal asking if anyone wanted me to draw their character about 17 days ago. I'm working on them (I've inked and colored two and have made sketches for others), I just haven't been feeling the greatest lately and it's been troublesome finding the motivation to bother. I feel this would make me look bad when I decide to do paid commissions.

Sorry if I'm sounding all "Oh woe is me", haha. I'm just giving a status update.

I'll do it for free, cuz I want to do commissions in the near future, but I don't know how to price my work and I want to get the hang of taking requests and stuff like that. Plus, it'll be fun to draw other people's stuff! :3

I mostly draw canines and humans. If you have a different species, then I could try to draw it, but it'll be my first, haha.

Thanks!

In less than two weeks I'll be moving! Something we've been planning for 2 years!! It's a 7 hour drive away from home, so I'm kinda nervous but really excited!

I'm officially finished with high school! Now I can focus on my drawings and shit like that! Then off to college at some point!

My most recent animation project (Here ==> http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27031197/ ) has this annoying I thing I didn't notice till someone commented on it... It looks like he's sneezing! XD That was not my intention, haha. What he's really doing is yelling "OW!" after cracking is neck, while flying his head forward.

Argh, well I'll just have to redo that entire portion I guess. THEN I can color!

Note to self: Learn what natural bodily expressions should actually look like. DUH!

I started a new small animation project, featuring my fursona Dominance! It's mostly just for more practice on movement and stuff, and to give my user icon an update :)