hi everyone


EDIT (5-6-2025):
I was gonna post a new journal with my socials but I haven't really posted anything new since the outage, so i'm saving it for when I actually have something to show but.

check these places, it's where the doodles end up more often
https://bsky.app/profile/elpatrixf.com
https://x.com/elpatrixf
https://www.tumblr.com/notfarts
https://www.tumblr.com/notreblogs

and also the vents, but oh well

First and foremost, I was mad about discord having a 10MB size limit for videos so I made an explorer extension that lets you compress videos quickly by just right-clicking and selecting "Shrink Video". I figured it's really useful so I cleaned it up and uploaded it so anyone can use it.
It also doubles as a simple H.264 re-encoder if you want to quickly compress your clips and recordings (uses ffmpeg).

You can share it on bluesky if you want, or twitter.

Download from here:
>> https://mega.nz/file/iLATxRCR#dBt5N.....Hx17JmG5XmkgN8

It's a self extracting executable so it might be flagged by some antiviruses, but the program is completely inoffensive. If you don't believe me you can just check the sources on github. For the record the sources is literally just the same files as the self-extracting executable, but plain to see. >> https://github.com/elPatrixF/VideoShrinker

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And secondly, I finally made a blog where I can post all my utilities and programs and computer tech tips in general. I generally do that randomly on twitter/bluesky/tumblr but I figured this is a more organized way to keep them somewhere they can be found later (and tumblr is pretty dead)
Anyway, if you want to download any of my older apps (Like the stopwatch app, or IDEKTray, the internet checker tray app thing) you will find them there!
https://elpatrixf.wordpress.com/

If you do remember an application I made in the past that is no longer found today, let me know and I'll re-upload and post it there.

Thank you for reading! And happy St. patricks day 🍻☘

Bluesky no longer requires invitations to sign up so:

If anyone wants to follow me, I post stuff regularly there!
https://bsky.app/profile/elpatrixf.com

Irohcards and I are doing a small donation drive.
So if you want to buy some cards featuring my old art :3> now is your chance

https://twitter.com/IrohCards/statu.....11621063802921
https://twitter.com/IrohCards/statu.....11621063802921
https://twitter.com/IrohCards/statu.....11621063802921

I'm going to donate to the international red cross. My hopes is that the money will go to good causes, like helping the victims in gaza.

Asked this on Twitter but I figured I could get better responses here.

I'm probably not going to draw anything until next year but what's a character or OC of mine that you'd like me to draw more of?

I've got nothing new to report on but it's good to see people arriving here.
I might try posting something this weekend but the past few months I've been trying to take it easy and just drawing whenever I feel like it.

Needless to say I haven't felt like drawing much ll,3> so

other than doodles I have nothing new. But at the same time I don't wanna post anything unfinished cuz that's a safe way for me to never pick it up again
so I'll just let things marinate and I will pick them up again when I feel better


For anyone not in the know, this has been making the rounds on twitter:
https://twitter.com/MissMentalCrash.....00333775712704

Bluesky is now pretty much a website full of furries lmao

https://bsky.app/profile/elpatrixf.com

I'm 31 jesus christ

Edit:
8,33> thank you all for the birthday wishes! ilu all so much

Just popping in to remind everyone that lately I've mostly been doing just doodles, so those don't end up posted here, they go to twitter instead... [ https://twitter.com/elpatrixf ]
And here's an art-only twitter if you don't wanna see retweets or ramblings :3 [ https://twitter.com/elpatrixfarts ]

How is summer treating you guys up there, down here the winter is freezing

So yeah, this is because of the new rule changes. I know that it's pretty much the same as before, the only difference is the rule got typified further to avoid ambiguity, but I still fear that people with bad intentions could abuse of that system and say that any short flat chested girl is "underage looking enough" to warrant a report, or that "his penis is too small, he looks like a teenager, which is a child".

I do believe I have no pictures in my gallery right now which would cause me to get warned/banned, but in case I'm no longer here, I suggest you guys follow me on my other active accounts.
I have a website which I use to host my small javascript projects, as well as a main hub for links, http://elpatrixf.com/
But here's the places I'm most active in:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/elpatrixf
This is where I post EVERYTHING, from doodles to rambles and full art

Art Twitter: https://twitter.com/elpatrixfarts
This account retweets my drawings only, doodles included, so you dont gotta deal with my rambles

Newgrounds: https://elpatrixf.newgrounds.com/
This is where I'll post the full resolution art, If I end up unable to use furaffinity.

And here's other sites I also post to, but less frequently, you can still follow me there if you want:
Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/elpatrixf
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/notfarts
Tumblr (memes): https://www.tumblr.com/blog/notreblogs

And I also have an inkbunny, but I don't want to publicize it too much for reasons. But whatever. If things get complicated I'll have to clean it up and start using it as a main account...
Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/elPatrixF

I wonder if I'll finally have to dust off my old weasyl account... still tho things are most likely to remain the same, this is just an announcement so you guys don't suddenly miss up on what I'm up to, if I'm ever up to something :,3>

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EDIT:
By the way, I'm not going anywhere, given the option I will stay here. The only reasons for me to leave is if the place becomes empty, or if they kick me out, or if they ban porn altogether.
If none of the three happen here, I'll keep posting my stuff here.

Got taken down because it contained the original fakemon generated using ai.

I've gone through all my submissions to edit out the portion where the original ai drawing was.

This was all automated and counts as one warning, so If I get my account suspended because of that stupid thing, I'll be very upset lmao.

Right what it says on the title, just a question to Artists currently open for commissions, or who have worked on commissions in the past.

How many hours would you spend working on a 100$ commission piece?

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EDIT: Thank you all for the answers! :,3> I appreciate your feedback a lot always
My idea behind this question was not to lean towards the "hourly wage" topic, but rather to try to measure how much you value your artwork based on how much effort you put into it, and time spent seemed to be the simplest way to put it.

I asked the question over on twitter too, if you want a bit more insight on the matter
https://twitter.com/elpatrixf/statu.....60171431587844

I've made a random pokemon generator for pokefusions that picks them based on their combined score :3>
Includes all 1008 pokemon, plus megas, gigantamax, variants, etc.

So that if you get one "bad" pokemon on the left, you'll get one "good" pokemon on the right🙌

Scores are in the B/E form, the first number is how good it is a Base, and the second is if it has good design elements. Ranging from 0 to 6.
The only missing formes are of those pokemon with more than 4 (furfrou, vivillon, unown, etc).

Made for fun, It's really rough but it works I suppose. Give it a go!

https://elpatrixf.com/pokefusion

EDIT:
I made two other things, using the same dataset:

A barebones "would you rather" website, where you have to pick either A or B.
http://elpatrixf.com/poke/wouldyourather

And obviously, a SMASH or PASS, featuring all the pokemon, and all formes.
http://elpatrixf.com/poke/smashorpass

I feel like I'm stuck in oldschool by still using the old UI.
Also I should make a profile banner... maybe stitch some of my favorite art I've done in the past years.

What do you guys think, to anyone who reads these: do you still use the classic or have you switched to the modern one?

Also hi everyone who still reads these :3>
Hope your 2023 is going smooth, mine started really rough :,3 but things are chill now, february will definitely be better.

Forget to check in one day and my new art notifications list is already 6 pages long

I follow way too many people there's always so much new art every day. maybe that's why i'm so anxious about not drawing lmao

Im finally 30 gosh 💦

I'm all ears y'all 🙌

I don't want to fight anyone i'm just, genuinely curious and want to hear opinions.

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EDIT: (5h later)

g osh, i definitely wasn't expecting this much feedback 💦 but honestly I've read all of you guys and I agree with almost everything.

In my personal opinion Twitter is kind of shitty and I mostly only stay there because everyone is there, and because it's comfortable to just stay somewhere because of that """Change=Bad""" noise.

It sucks a lot for serious artists because there's no gallery or anything, and you really gotta build up a strong shield to protect yourself from all the bullshit and the drama that constantly goes around (and that one might rather not really be aware of; I swear to god every two weeks a famous twitter gets revealed to be a groomer or something). I follow over 5000 twitter accounts and it's crazy how never ending my timeline is. I really need to work out on following less people, I want to show appreciation to everyone but i'm starting to realize it's overwhelming and maybe I need to rethink if i really want to see new art at every second.
As a content creator, I suppose twitter only feels okay to me because i'm at a point where I don't know if I can take art seriously anymore, and posting doodles is quick and easy on twitter, compared to other platforms. And twitter is different from discord because you can just throw stuff there and not worry about real-time social interactions.

Thank y'all for the opinions really. It says a lot that the hate towards twitter is universal, regardless of wanting to use it or not.

It's REAL AND IT CAN HURT ME !!!

https://youtu.be/WEVctuQTeaI

I'M HYPE

Dunno why it's trending lately. Might be because Twitter finally forcibly retired the old (and better) desktop UI in favor of the new one? In any case a lot of peeps have been inviting and getting other artists and fans to join in pillowfort and my friend sanarise got me an invite to join so

This is my pillowfort, i have one now \o/

https://www.pillowfort.social/elPatrixF
https://www.pillowfort.social/elPatrixF
https://www.pillowfort.social/elPatrixF

Pillowfort is basically what old Tumblr was. It's currently on closed beta so the only way to get in is if you get invited by an existing user, or if you donate $5. But this is only during the beta. Hopefully it will open up later this year (or next year) for the general public. Every user can invite up to three people per week apparently (I have 1 invite left but I'm saving it for someone, sorry ;v;).

But yeah, idk if i'm gonna use the site per-se, but you can jump in now while it's early.

I'm not gonna post any exclusive content or anything there though, Twitter will still be my main platform until the day they ban NSFW. [My twitter btw: https://twitter.com/elpatrixf ]
Also here, of course... but lately I've been doing mostly doodles so there's some stuff I never posted here on furaffinity, sorry about that!

gO give him a warm welcome!


https://www.furaffinity.net/user/artjsc/
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/artjsc/
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/artjsc/

it took a few months (because life) but !!!! lookit!

https://twitter.com/elpatrixf/statu.....10914775580672

I started working on it back on september but only today I finally decided it was time to apply the contact paper so I could finally assemble it.
It's all made with pulp boards (they're really strong, they were very difficult to cut with scissors and I can apply a lot of force and it doesn't even bend), an old android tablet (TOSHIBA at15-a, on android jellybean, can run retroarch/mame4droid/epsxe), all held together with glue, superglue, tape, red/black/white contact paper, and uses a usb arcade interface connected to 8 push buttons and a red ball stick. I'm considering adding more decoration to the sides and the marquee but, for now it's fully assembled and finally playable!

Here's some extra pics of the process! https://imgur.com/a/YeJFeWu

I hardly ever reply to any but I swear I read them all, and smile!!

I kinda feel I should try to reply more to comments I just think that things would get really cluttered if I went and thanked everyone.. and thinking about smart funny replies to make things more interesting is much harder than you'd imagine ;y;

!! but hey I see y'all and I'm very grateful! thanks for making my heart chuckle <3

My friend  melodymuse needs help getting an MRI scan. She's been having symptoms of multiple sclerosis, which have been getting worse and worse in the past year, and this MRI will help her apply for an SSA Disability to get the treatment she needs to live a better life.

She's opened a GoFundMe to raise the money needed for the MRI, and the sooner she can get it the better, so please spread the word and donate if you can!! ;u;

https://www.gofundme.com/help-melissa-get-her-mri
https://www.gofundme.com/help-melissa-get-her-mri
https://www.gofundme.com/help-melissa-get-her-mri

Alternate link: http://gf.me/u/q3kwga

I've made a randomizer that picks 5 random tags from e621 so that you guys can use it as an art challenge/prompt. It has some settings so you can choose whether you want to see more common or rarer tags, and also to pick a species tag.

I did it purely for fun and to see what kind of weird shit it would actually spew but if you only pick from the uhhh, say, 4000 most popular tags, you can pretty much use this as drawing prompt lol

here it is if you wanna try it:
https://elpatrixf.com/e621tags/ 🎲

expect weird results lol


also here it is on twitter in case you want to share?? https://twitter.com/elpatrixf/statu.....19550214631424 much appreciated!

i rambled a bit on twitter but I thought I'd share these thoughts with you guys too !

Just wanted to say that I don't really want to think of a new-years resolution yet because.... to be honest I don't really like new years resolution because it's hard to think ahead a goal for an entire year. And also because usually this time of the year makes most of us reflect too much on things and we end up being emotionally confused to sit down and promise stuff to ourselves.

New year's finds most of us broken usually because either we don't like social gatherings, or because feel lonely, or because we feel we didn't do anything all year... but you know the truth is far from that. We all did A LOT this year. Even if you feel you didn't achieve any BIG goal.

Just ignore that noise and for these holidays focus on having fun and drinking and eating tasty food cuz it's time to celebrate that we've survived 2018 and not time to worry if we'll fail 2019. You can think about your goals ANY day of your life, not just the first of January! And hell, it doesn't even need to be a yearly goal, you can settle down for a monthly goal, or even a weekly goal! calendar year doesn't have to mean a thing if you don't like it!


Take me for instance, I don't feel I've done much art-wise all year compared to previous years and considering all that's been going on this year that i'm not gonna recapitulate now, but I've met a lot of interesting people and made some great friends... and also my best friend  honwell became my boyfriend!! (I don't know if I've ever mentioned that here in furaffinity before??? it was the best moment this year, hell best moment in my life so far!!!! ❤❤❤ i became a chronic mushy mess on tumblr the whole week that happened hhahaha)

... so... yeah!! Life is about leaving a mark, but it's not all about making things!
And then again, whether you believe life has a meaning of not, even the smallest things you do can make a difference... for the better! It may seem like what you're doing is helping no one, but trust me, good things will come !

So stay strong guys!! And I wish yall best of luck in seeking happiness this 2019!! ❤❤