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Commission Feedback Thread (Anything you wish I'd do?)
General | Posted a year agoHaio! With October rolling around I'm continuing to figure out next steps to grow as an artist and make what I'm doing more sustainable <3
Offering commissions at all was an experimental process for me, and I haven't really updated rates or the commission format since I started. So it's good for me to check in occasionally and ask about what different floofs would like to see! :3
Current commissions that I offer:
★ 60/90 minute sketch commissions ($35/$50): these are the commissions that have seen the most interest since I started offering them. They're done in a single setting, live, and commissioners usually get the results sent over within a day or two. They're designed to be quick and simple and to allow floofs to commission random ideas they have without committing too much.
★ Polished commissions ($50 per hour): these are standard polished commissions that are charged at an hourly rate. I went with an hourly rate because I was worried about mis-estimating required times, and so that clients would have a lot of flexibility: you can ask for changes or additions at pretty much any part of the process and I'll usually say yes, as long as you understand that the changes might alter the number of hours.
★★★
So that's roughly where I am. Some questions I have:
★ Are 60/90 minutes good times for sketch commissions? I've had a few floofs ask about offering 120 minute commissions, something to bridge the gap between 90 minute sketches (which are effectively $35 an hour) and full polished commissions (which are $50 an hour). I've also had multiple clients commission multi-part sketch commissions, which are a lot of fun but do make me worry that the format might not be serving them well. I've been tempted to offer an even lower-cost 30 minute timed sketches with the caveat that they couldn't be planned much in advance. I like the idea of having something that's accessible and fun and a little bit impulsive, rather than extensively planned.
★ Should I charge hourly for polished commissions, or charge per-project? If I switched to a fixed price I'd likely need to add more rules about when edits could happen and about subject materials. I think that the hourly prices are more straightforward and flexible for both clients and for me, but I'm aware that this isn't a typical pricing model for most furry commissions, which typically have a set format and set price, and limits on the numbers of subjects or species. I've wondered a few times if hourly rates aren't part of the reason why I don't see a ton of regular interest in polished commissions.
★ Are prices a barrier? I'm not sure that I can do anything about this, trying to do art full time there are limitations to how much I can discount my work and still make a living on it. But I'm aware that there is a large price difference between the hourly rate for sketch commissions and polished commissions, and if you've looked at my commissions before (either polished or sketch commissions) and thought, "I would love to get that, but just can't afford it" - that's still something that I can think about when planning future pawjects to try and come up with more accessible offers.
★ Are my commission terms difficult to find or understand? Is there anything you'd like to see worded differently? Is there a resource you'd like to see to make it easier to get in touch or keep up with which commissions are currently active? Are there changes you'd like to see to my delivery method for finished art?
★ Should any stream times/content be adjusted to make it easier to join/view streams? I've been thinking for a while about potentially moving Monday's stream earlier in the day and making it endo-only and scat-free (so no fatal digestion or overly cruel vore, no rape, and no scat, but still NSFW-allowed). I don't have a good sense of how many critters (if any) would like to be able to tune into streams but are thrown off by either the time or the content warnings.
★★★
I've also been thinking about other commission offerings on a limited basis. I'd love to hear thoughts on any of the following ideas:
★ Would you like to see YCH commissions? And if so, are there particular subjects, scenarios, and species would you be interested in? YCH commissions would have limited slots, but I would charge per-project, not per-hour. Whenever I made one, I'd post the base image and announce how many slots were available and any relevant species and restrictions. These would be a once-and-a-while type of commission. I'm particularly interested in what subjects people and critters would like to see if I started offering these? Scenarios with recurring characters or settings? Custom Pokevore cards? Fully unique one-off premises?
★ Would you like to see group commission offerings? I've thought a little bit about allowing multiple commissioners to pool resources for a single commission either featuring multiple of their OCs or a scenario that both commissioners enjoy. This would need a lot of thought, so if it is something you'd like to see, please give me some details on how you'd want something like this to work :3
★ Would you like to see comic/subject sponsorship? Over on Subscribestar I occasionally run non-binding polls about what I should work on next. If I offered a way for followers to directly sponsor and pay for me to work on specific storylines in the Forest, with Max the Eevee, or even one-off pawjects, that could make it easier for me to devote more time to polishing and finishing comics. What's tricky with this is that I'd still want to retain creative control over the comics that I make in those settings, but I know that I jump around a lot as an artist and sometimes that means WIP comics stay WIP for a looong time.
★ Is there something else you wish I was doing that I'm not doing? Like I mentioned at the start of this, while it feels like a long time already I've only been offering commissions for a short while, and I'm still trying to figure out what terms work. So while I can't pawmiss I'll do everything, I'm very open to suggestions about things that I should tweak, change, or start offering.
Thanks! <3
Offering commissions at all was an experimental process for me, and I haven't really updated rates or the commission format since I started. So it's good for me to check in occasionally and ask about what different floofs would like to see! :3
Current commissions that I offer:
★ 60/90 minute sketch commissions ($35/$50): these are the commissions that have seen the most interest since I started offering them. They're done in a single setting, live, and commissioners usually get the results sent over within a day or two. They're designed to be quick and simple and to allow floofs to commission random ideas they have without committing too much.
★ Polished commissions ($50 per hour): these are standard polished commissions that are charged at an hourly rate. I went with an hourly rate because I was worried about mis-estimating required times, and so that clients would have a lot of flexibility: you can ask for changes or additions at pretty much any part of the process and I'll usually say yes, as long as you understand that the changes might alter the number of hours.
★★★
So that's roughly where I am. Some questions I have:
★ Are 60/90 minutes good times for sketch commissions? I've had a few floofs ask about offering 120 minute commissions, something to bridge the gap between 90 minute sketches (which are effectively $35 an hour) and full polished commissions (which are $50 an hour). I've also had multiple clients commission multi-part sketch commissions, which are a lot of fun but do make me worry that the format might not be serving them well. I've been tempted to offer an even lower-cost 30 minute timed sketches with the caveat that they couldn't be planned much in advance. I like the idea of having something that's accessible and fun and a little bit impulsive, rather than extensively planned.
★ Should I charge hourly for polished commissions, or charge per-project? If I switched to a fixed price I'd likely need to add more rules about when edits could happen and about subject materials. I think that the hourly prices are more straightforward and flexible for both clients and for me, but I'm aware that this isn't a typical pricing model for most furry commissions, which typically have a set format and set price, and limits on the numbers of subjects or species. I've wondered a few times if hourly rates aren't part of the reason why I don't see a ton of regular interest in polished commissions.
★ Are prices a barrier? I'm not sure that I can do anything about this, trying to do art full time there are limitations to how much I can discount my work and still make a living on it. But I'm aware that there is a large price difference between the hourly rate for sketch commissions and polished commissions, and if you've looked at my commissions before (either polished or sketch commissions) and thought, "I would love to get that, but just can't afford it" - that's still something that I can think about when planning future pawjects to try and come up with more accessible offers.
★ Are my commission terms difficult to find or understand? Is there anything you'd like to see worded differently? Is there a resource you'd like to see to make it easier to get in touch or keep up with which commissions are currently active? Are there changes you'd like to see to my delivery method for finished art?
★ Should any stream times/content be adjusted to make it easier to join/view streams? I've been thinking for a while about potentially moving Monday's stream earlier in the day and making it endo-only and scat-free (so no fatal digestion or overly cruel vore, no rape, and no scat, but still NSFW-allowed). I don't have a good sense of how many critters (if any) would like to be able to tune into streams but are thrown off by either the time or the content warnings.
★★★
I've also been thinking about other commission offerings on a limited basis. I'd love to hear thoughts on any of the following ideas:
★ Would you like to see YCH commissions? And if so, are there particular subjects, scenarios, and species would you be interested in? YCH commissions would have limited slots, but I would charge per-project, not per-hour. Whenever I made one, I'd post the base image and announce how many slots were available and any relevant species and restrictions. These would be a once-and-a-while type of commission. I'm particularly interested in what subjects people and critters would like to see if I started offering these? Scenarios with recurring characters or settings? Custom Pokevore cards? Fully unique one-off premises?
★ Would you like to see group commission offerings? I've thought a little bit about allowing multiple commissioners to pool resources for a single commission either featuring multiple of their OCs or a scenario that both commissioners enjoy. This would need a lot of thought, so if it is something you'd like to see, please give me some details on how you'd want something like this to work :3
★ Would you like to see comic/subject sponsorship? Over on Subscribestar I occasionally run non-binding polls about what I should work on next. If I offered a way for followers to directly sponsor and pay for me to work on specific storylines in the Forest, with Max the Eevee, or even one-off pawjects, that could make it easier for me to devote more time to polishing and finishing comics. What's tricky with this is that I'd still want to retain creative control over the comics that I make in those settings, but I know that I jump around a lot as an artist and sometimes that means WIP comics stay WIP for a looong time.
★ Is there something else you wish I was doing that I'm not doing? Like I mentioned at the start of this, while it feels like a long time already I've only been offering commissions for a short while, and I'm still trying to figure out what terms work. So while I can't pawmiss I'll do everything, I'm very open to suggestions about things that I should tweak, change, or start offering.
Thanks! <3
Subscribestar 60-min Sketch Raffle (check your messages :...
General | Posted a year agoI sent out the first message for the winner of the 60 minute sketch raffle on Subscribestar, so if you're a supporter on Subscribestar, maybe check your messages?
If you were chosen, you'll have 24 hours to respond (in any way) before I run the raffle again and choose another name. If you miss that window but still respond before the end of the month, I'll put you (and anypony else in that situation) in a separate pool next month which will make you more likely to be chosen.
You can respond on Subscribestar or get in touch with me on any other social media that I'm on. If you're on Subscribestar and would like a message elsewhere if you win - just message me about it on whatever platform you'd like me to use. Or message me in advance on Subscribestar that you are interested and I'll raise your window to 48 hours.
Apologies for starting this out early, I know not everypony on Subscribestar may have seen that we hit the goal for this - but I'm guessing I'll need to do a few rounds, so I want to start early enough that I can actually do the sketch before the end of the month.
If you were chosen, you'll have 24 hours to respond (in any way) before I run the raffle again and choose another name. If you miss that window but still respond before the end of the month, I'll put you (and anypony else in that situation) in a separate pool next month which will make you more likely to be chosen.
You can respond on Subscribestar or get in touch with me on any other social media that I'm on. If you're on Subscribestar and would like a message elsewhere if you win - just message me about it on whatever platform you'd like me to use. Or message me in advance on Subscribestar that you are interested and I'll raise your window to 48 hours.
Apologies for starting this out early, I know not everypony on Subscribestar may have seen that we hit the goal for this - but I'm guessing I'll need to do a few rounds, so I want to start early enough that I can actually do the sketch before the end of the month.
Voretober plans (Send me sketch ideas!) <3
General | Posted a year agoHaio! Voretober is still a little less than 3 weeks away, but I'd like to try and do something special for it, and I figure it's better not to leave it off for the last minute to make plans X3
One thing I've been enjoying a lot recently is doing 5 minute phone doodles every once-and-a-while or to start out the day (if you're on the (Subscribestar) you can already request a doodle each month). So I thought it would be fun to maybe start out each day in October by doing a quick daily doodle in the morning before I get out of bed :3c But, I looked into the Voretober prompts and they're pretty broad and I wasn't feeling particularly inspired by them.
So.. you all should give me prompts instead! X3
Here are the rules:
★ I'll compile a list of prompt ideas on Aryion and on other sites, and starting in October, each morning I'll pick one that seems fun and draw it quickly. I'll try to post one fingerpainting sketch each day :3
★ I'm drawing these quickly on a phone by touch, so they can't be too complicated. See https://aryion.com/g4/search.php?q=&tags=fingerpainting%2C+&type_search=&user=foxyoreos&from_date=&to_date= for some examples of the level of detail I can do. So these can't be full scenarios or stories. It should be an idea that can be expressed in a single panel.
★ Prompts can contain OCs, but please try to keep the complexity limits above in mind. There's a limit to how complicated I can make an OC in a short amount of time drawing with my finger X3 If your prompt does include an OC, please link to a ref sheet alongside your prompt.
★ A prompt should be one sentence and 25 words or less.
★ Prompts can be SFW or NSFW, endo or fatal. Prompts don't need to be vore-focused, but it is Voretober, so I'm going to prioritize the prompts that are (although it's pawbably not news that I also have a weakness for other pred/prey scenarios and domination scenarios) X3
★ Limit two prompts per person/critter, but if I don't get a lot of prompts I might raise that (or add some of my own). I'll prioritize fluffers I haven't gotten to yet before doing a second prompt from the same submitter. There's no guarantee that I'll get to everypony.
★ I'm not going to require submitting prompts publicly, but I would strongly encourage it. Comment them below! That gives other fluffers the ability to build on your ideas, and plus if I don't get to an idea you have, maybe another artist will see it and take a stab at it, who knows?
★ The idea with these is to be fun, so feel free to chime in with support for ideas you'd also like to see or to collaborate with other beans on prompt ideas <3 Please keep everything pawsitive though :3
★ If there are more than 31 ideas, I'll pick them out and based on which ones are most interesting or funny to me X3
★ The same content rules as my normal commissions apply. That means no underage characters (even in SFW situations), bodily substances like scat shouldn't touch prey, and no "circle-of-life" talk from fatal predators (fatal predators are welcome to be cruel, teasy, or enthusiastic though). If you're in doubt about an idea, just ask about it! I pawmiss I won't be mad at you for asking clarification on whether an idea fits into my rules <3
★ Furaffinity Addition: While you can definitely give ideas involving Pokemon, because of the lack of clarity around 2.7, and some recent bans I've seen for Pokemon artwork, I won't be uploading any sketches that feature Pokemon to Furaffinity. It's just not safe for me to do so; I don't feel like I can accurately predict which species moderators will have a pawblem with. Those pics will show up in my other socials, but if you request one you'll have to see it on those platforms.
Over on the Subscribestar I'll also add an additional finger painting sketch for supporters during October.
One thing I've been enjoying a lot recently is doing 5 minute phone doodles every once-and-a-while or to start out the day (if you're on the (Subscribestar) you can already request a doodle each month). So I thought it would be fun to maybe start out each day in October by doing a quick daily doodle in the morning before I get out of bed :3c But, I looked into the Voretober prompts and they're pretty broad and I wasn't feeling particularly inspired by them.
So.. you all should give me prompts instead! X3
❤❤❤Here are the rules:
★ I'll compile a list of prompt ideas on Aryion and on other sites, and starting in October, each morning I'll pick one that seems fun and draw it quickly. I'll try to post one fingerpainting sketch each day :3
★ I'm drawing these quickly on a phone by touch, so they can't be too complicated. See https://aryion.com/g4/search.php?q=&tags=fingerpainting%2C+&type_search=&user=foxyoreos&from_date=&to_date= for some examples of the level of detail I can do. So these can't be full scenarios or stories. It should be an idea that can be expressed in a single panel.
★ Prompts can contain OCs, but please try to keep the complexity limits above in mind. There's a limit to how complicated I can make an OC in a short amount of time drawing with my finger X3 If your prompt does include an OC, please link to a ref sheet alongside your prompt.
★ A prompt should be one sentence and 25 words or less.
★ Prompts can be SFW or NSFW, endo or fatal. Prompts don't need to be vore-focused, but it is Voretober, so I'm going to prioritize the prompts that are (although it's pawbably not news that I also have a weakness for other pred/prey scenarios and domination scenarios) X3
★ Limit two prompts per person/critter, but if I don't get a lot of prompts I might raise that (or add some of my own). I'll prioritize fluffers I haven't gotten to yet before doing a second prompt from the same submitter. There's no guarantee that I'll get to everypony.
★ I'm not going to require submitting prompts publicly, but I would strongly encourage it. Comment them below! That gives other fluffers the ability to build on your ideas, and plus if I don't get to an idea you have, maybe another artist will see it and take a stab at it, who knows?
★ The idea with these is to be fun, so feel free to chime in with support for ideas you'd also like to see or to collaborate with other beans on prompt ideas <3 Please keep everything pawsitive though :3
★ If there are more than 31 ideas, I'll pick them out and based on which ones are most interesting or funny to me X3
★ The same content rules as my normal commissions apply. That means no underage characters (even in SFW situations), bodily substances like scat shouldn't touch prey, and no "circle-of-life" talk from fatal predators (fatal predators are welcome to be cruel, teasy, or enthusiastic though). If you're in doubt about an idea, just ask about it! I pawmiss I won't be mad at you for asking clarification on whether an idea fits into my rules <3
★ Furaffinity Addition: While you can definitely give ideas involving Pokemon, because of the lack of clarity around 2.7, and some recent bans I've seen for Pokemon artwork, I won't be uploading any sketches that feature Pokemon to Furaffinity. It's just not safe for me to do so; I don't feel like I can accurately predict which species moderators will have a pawblem with. Those pics will show up in my other socials, but if you request one you'll have to see it on those platforms.
❤❤❤Over on the Subscribestar I'll also add an additional finger painting sketch for supporters during October.
Intros/Ask Box (Profile Link)
General | Posted a year agoAsk Box/Introductions!
★❤★❤★❤★❤Want to say hi or introduce yourself? Have a question and aren't sure where to ask it? Just think that shout page conversations are hard to follow?
Comment here! <3About Me (Profile Link)
General | Posted a year agoInfo/About Me
★❤★❤★❤★❤Pronouns
Use they in most scenarios, you can use it if I know you well or in specific scenarios (if you're not sure, just default to they) <3 Other pronouns on a very conditional basis.
ADHD/Autism
I have both ADHD and autism, which causes me to get anxious around strangers. Social interactions are work, even in scenarios where I'm enjoying myself, so sometimes I get too tired or anxious and need to check out. Please don't be offended if I occasionally don't reply to a comment/request. I do really like interacting with fluffers, and I want fluffers not to feel anxious to comment or message me. Just be aware that I might not always be available or have the energy to keep up with feeds/messages. <3
The ADHD is going to lead to a lot of "WIP" pieces that stay "WIP" indefinitely, so sowwy in advance ;w;
Orientation
I am Aroace. More specifically, I don't feel romantic or sexual attraction IRL. I'm not sex-repulsed and you all are very cute and fluffy >:3, but just don't try to pull me into anything real-world and don't act weird/sussy about my real-world identity. I also have a strong aversion to bodily fluids outside of drawing/writing. >w<
Heckin gay as fuck for everypony otherwise, all genders included. <3
I don't mind horny in the abstract or about fictional scenarios (in fact I encourage it on my comment sections :3c), and I don't mind talking about horny or doing some teasing, but the horny stops if I'm not able to disassociate myself from it or if I feel like it's leaving the realm of fiction. There is nuance about when I will and won't be uncomfortable that's difficult to explain, but when in doubt: fictional pictures are usually in-limits, and the aroace autistic fox is pretty much always off-limits.
If you do like to be teased, give me signals about that when you comment! <3 I think that teasing is fun and I'm often willing to do it (as long as it doesn't go too far), but I'm also autistic and I don't always pick up on subtle signals, so I worry a lot about whether or not I'm correctly interpreting what commenters will and won't feel comfortable with. >w<
Unabashedly Cringe X3
Expect to see a lot of UwUs and furry speak. <3 I don't get a lot of of opportunity to really lean into that side of myself outside of the furry fandom, so I indulge in it a lot within the fandom. I'm not interested in being serious or respectable, I'm interested in being a floofy gay fox on the Internet! *nyah!*
Diet
Vegan (yes, I get the irony). I also really despise any form of IRL live-feeding for snakes or other pets; I think live feeding is always animal cruelty and is never justified. I keep pet rats, please don't test me on that.
My Block/Follow Policy
I'm very choosy about who I follow on Aryion (and in general). This isn't an assessment of anypony's art, some of my favorite artists are fluffers that I don't follow. It's more that I get overwhelmed very easily when my feed is too crowded, and that it's hard for me to filter out work that bothers me. So I try to keep my follow list low and I tend to only follow artists if I feel confident that they usually won't draw any vore or scenario that bothers me.
Process
I mostly use Krita, but I'll often break out Blender Grease Pencil for line art. Minor dips into Aseprite when I do pixel art. I'm almost always happy to answer questions about how I work :3
My Social Links (Profile Link)
General | Posted a year agoFind me Online!
Last Updated: 2025-04-22
★❤★❤★❤★❤I'm unfortunately not on Twitter, or Discord, but there are a lot of other places that you can find me online to stay up-to-date or chat <3
STREAMS (NSFW/vore art)
Typically start before 8:00pm EST every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
Chats are bridged! You can join streams on either
platform and still talk to anypony inside either chat.★ Piczel: https://piczel.tv/watch/foxyoreos
Fewer features, but doesn't require an account in order to join chat! Feel free to drop by some time and say hello, even anonymously <3
★ Picarto: https://picarto.tv/foxyoreos
The bigger furry streaming platform, but a bit more cumbersome to use and tends to have higher latency. X3
GALLERIES
If you message/comment on any of these galleries, I'll see it before too long <3★ Aryion: https://aryion.com/g4/user/foxyoreos
My most complete gallery for now (although I'm working on getting Itaku up to speed). Worse filtering controls, but despite the clunkiness this is the gallery site I put the most work into, just because this is where the majority of my audience currently is.
★ Furaffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/foxyoreos/
Popular furry site, probably my second-most active gallery. I censor some pieces with scat, and content policies mean that some pictures with Pokemon or shorter characters won't be uploaded.
★ Itaku: https://itaku.ee/profile/foxyoreos
Good filtering controls, a great tumblr/gallery hybrid if you like that kind of thing. ;3 Great site technically, but has a small userbase. Unfortunately still lacks writing support, so stories I upload will be linked to other sites.
★ Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/foxyoreos
Occasionally has extra in-pawgress and rough-draft versions of artwork uploaded alongside pieces. Tends to lag a little behind uploads otherwise >w< Content policies mean that any pieces with humans in them will never be uploaded here.
★ Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~foxyoreos
Small site with some good ideas that are underdeveloped. Tends to stay relatively up-to-date with Inkbunny, but I don't pay a lot of attention to it because the userbase is unfortunately really small. >w<
SOCIALS/MESSAGING★ Mastodon: https://gulp.cafe/@foxyoreos
Where I am most social and most vorny on main. X3 Occasionally expect to see some tech posts/rants. This is as close to a regular social feed as you're going to get from me X3
★ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/foxyoreos.bsky.social
I have some doubts about Bluesky's long-term viability as an independent social network, but for the moment it seems to be going okay, and it's very popular among furry artists. Like with Furaffinity, I censor scat on here because there's no implementation of content warnings or self-labeling.
★ Matrix: foxyoreos:bark.lgbt IMPORTANT: Do not use matrix.org!!
I also recommend bark.lgbt as a community/homeserver if you'd like a friendly furry chat to hang out in with IRC vibes. <3 Matrix clients are kind of a mess, and stuff like sticker support is lacking. Best treated as a Discord alternative, not as an encrypted messenger. Some very friendly communities though :3
IMPORTANT: Do not use matrix.org!! The main matrix.org instance breaks regularly and invisibly and will stop sending or receiving messages from other instances (which can lead to me not seeing what you message, or you not seeing what I respond). I recommend joining bark.lgbt.
★ Signal: foxyoreos.66
Gold standard for encryption, but requires a phone number to use and has some questionable design decisions. Best thought of as an alternative to Telegram if you need to send me files one-on-one.
SUPPORT
I'm attempting to turn my furry art into a full-time job <3 If you like what I do and want
me to continue putting artwork out at this pace, consider helping out with some bills <3★ Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos
Get early access to artwork, weekly updates on what I'm up to, and a monthly free finger paintings X3 More rewards will be added over time.
★ Commissions: https://foxyoreos.netlify.app
Commissions are my main source of income right meow. I offer both polished commissions and timed sketches that I draw live on stream! Commissioning me on Aryion comes with a $5 discount to 90 minute sketches and my hourly rate for polished artwork. <3
★ Programming: https://ko-fi.com/foxyoreos
You can sponsor furry software development through Subscribestar and through KoFi! <3 The pawjects I'm working on are Open Source, and I'm looking for regular or one-time donations to help me take the time necessary to clean up more of them and release them!
OTHER
Special cases and commissioner-only chats★ Email/Steam: available on request
For commissioners who need to send me refs or prefer more direct communication I can send over an commission-specific email address and/or Steam username.
* Telegram: available on request
For commissioners who prefer coordinating over Telegram, I can send over a username. However because I don't trust Telegram not to lock my phone number in the future, you will need to have a reliable backup way us to contact each other. That can either be a social media site that you check regularly, or an email address that you monitor.
Off-and-on art streaming today
General | Posted a year agoI'll be off-and-on streaming throughout today (Saturday) doing some vore art - mostly focused on taking care of some chores I've been putting off and maybe doing some quick sketches since I'm behind on new art right now X3
That basically means I'll stream for a few hours, stop for a few hours, jump back on again :3
There's no way for me to censor art on my stream, so (possible) content warnings for fatal vore, cruel vore, sex and lewd stuff, rape, and disposal/scat. Not all of that will happen, but all of that could happen. >:3
That basically means I'll stream for a few hours, stop for a few hours, jump back on again :3
There's no way for me to censor art on my stream, so (possible) content warnings for fatal vore, cruel vore, sex and lewd stuff, rape, and disposal/scat. Not all of that will happen, but all of that could happen. >:3
You can now follow me on FA! With caveats..
General | Posted a year agoYou can now follow me on FA! But if there's any other platform that you use, you'll have a better time following me there.
There are a few limitations:
★ Artwork I upload to FA will be lower resolution: This isn't something I control, the fact is that FA's maximum resolution is just lower than most other sites that I use, even for downsized art.
★ Some of my artwork won't be on here: This is also something I can't control. I am going to attempt to safely comply with Furaffinity's 2.7 rules as best as I can. In the absence of clarity about those rules I'll have to keep some of my artwork off of the site. To be 100% clear, every character that I draw is an adult. But for my own safety I pawbably won't upload Pokemon pictures to Furaffinity and I'll avoid uploading any artwork that features shorter characters. I don't know where that line will be because I don't know what FA's line is.
★ Some of my artwork will be censored: FA lacks anything resembling a functional tagging system. In other sites, artists can use thumbnails as content warnings, but FA turns off thumbnails by default. What this means is that there is effectively no way for anypony using FA to protect themselves from seeing more extreme artwork. I have a diverse set of followers on other sites that have different levels of tolerance for content. There are sex-averse asexuals who want to follow The Forest. There are fluffers who can only handle endo vore. I want to keep them safe while still letting fluffers who like my more extreme work with scat or disposal know when I've uploaded pics with those themes. The compromise I've come up with is to censor any artwork that I upload with extreme elements like scat and to link to uncensored versions of those images on other sites. I want fluffers who aren't into that stuff to be able to follow this account, and unfortunately FA does not offer any tools at all for them to protect themselves. It's up to me to make sure that they feel safe loading up their feeds.
The biggest incentive I'm offering for fluffers on FA to follow me on other platforms is this:
★ I will be offering discounts to commissioners who commission me elsewhere: I'm still working on the details, but I expect some of my commission prices on other sites other than FA to drop by around $5 an hour. This means that commissioning me and coordinating with me off of FA will be cheaper than commissioning me on FA. This is a deliberate incentive. The other limitations to my gallery are the result of restrictions or a lack of features on FA itself. They're not me being punitive to the platform, they're me trying to use the platform as it exists today. But commission prices are meant to be an incentive. I want you to follow me elsewhere. I want you to try other gallery sites - not just as artists but as users, because if you're a user who's only browsing on FA, you are the reason why artists are here.
And so I want you to get in to the habit of following artists on other platforms other than FA.
The problems i brought up a year ago (https://sfw.furaffinity.net/journal/10569374/) were never resolved and will likely never be fixed. A year later trying to find clarity on how this all played out, I'm finding that there never was any clarity provided. This is not a safe platform for artists to use, and the community would be better served by moving elsewhere. In addition, FA as a gallery site is indefensibly broken. Tag blocking is not a "nice-to-have", it is a fundamentally necessary feature that should disqualify any gallery site from being called a safe or serious platform. You simply can not keep a community safe without a culture of tagging images and a set of tools to use tags to hide content, it is impossible. And so FA is not a safe website for sensitive furs.
And truthfully, FA is not going to improve on any of those points. It is naive to believe otherwise. Things will only ever get better and the community will only ever be safer and more accessible if we go somewhere else.
So while I'm going to do the absolute best I can to make my FA gallery as good as I can, and while I'm going to have an absolute blast interacting with talented artists and sharing art with anypony who wants to see it <3, I'm also not going to be shy, at all, about encouraging fluffers away from this platform. Because it has to happen. Better platforms exist today, and the only thing holding them back is the furry community's willingness to use them.
You can follow me here, I'd love to have you around. But while you're here, please consider taking a step towards a better community as well.
If you'd like to follow me on other platforms as well as on FA, you can find me on:
★ Itaku: https://itaku.ee/profile/foxyoreos
★ Aryion: https://aryion.com/g4/user/foxyoreos
★ Mastodon: https://gulp.cafe/@foxyoreos
★ Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/foxyoreos
★ Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~foxyoreos
★ Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos
★ # https://foxyoreos.itch.io/
You can message me on SIgnal (foxyoreos.66) or Matrix (@foxyoreos:bark.lgbt). I maintain a local fork of Postybirb that makes tagging easier (https://codeberg.org/foxyoreos/postybirb-plus-local-changes) if you'd like help mirroring posts to both FA and other galleries. Get in touch if you'd like help with anything <3
There are a few limitations:
★ Artwork I upload to FA will be lower resolution: This isn't something I control, the fact is that FA's maximum resolution is just lower than most other sites that I use, even for downsized art.
★ Some of my artwork won't be on here: This is also something I can't control. I am going to attempt to safely comply with Furaffinity's 2.7 rules as best as I can. In the absence of clarity about those rules I'll have to keep some of my artwork off of the site. To be 100% clear, every character that I draw is an adult. But for my own safety I pawbably won't upload Pokemon pictures to Furaffinity and I'll avoid uploading any artwork that features shorter characters. I don't know where that line will be because I don't know what FA's line is.
★ Some of my artwork will be censored: FA lacks anything resembling a functional tagging system. In other sites, artists can use thumbnails as content warnings, but FA turns off thumbnails by default. What this means is that there is effectively no way for anypony using FA to protect themselves from seeing more extreme artwork. I have a diverse set of followers on other sites that have different levels of tolerance for content. There are sex-averse asexuals who want to follow The Forest. There are fluffers who can only handle endo vore. I want to keep them safe while still letting fluffers who like my more extreme work with scat or disposal know when I've uploaded pics with those themes. The compromise I've come up with is to censor any artwork that I upload with extreme elements like scat and to link to uncensored versions of those images on other sites. I want fluffers who aren't into that stuff to be able to follow this account, and unfortunately FA does not offer any tools at all for them to protect themselves. It's up to me to make sure that they feel safe loading up their feeds.
The biggest incentive I'm offering for fluffers on FA to follow me on other platforms is this:
★ I will be offering discounts to commissioners who commission me elsewhere: I'm still working on the details, but I expect some of my commission prices on other sites other than FA to drop by around $5 an hour. This means that commissioning me and coordinating with me off of FA will be cheaper than commissioning me on FA. This is a deliberate incentive. The other limitations to my gallery are the result of restrictions or a lack of features on FA itself. They're not me being punitive to the platform, they're me trying to use the platform as it exists today. But commission prices are meant to be an incentive. I want you to follow me elsewhere. I want you to try other gallery sites - not just as artists but as users, because if you're a user who's only browsing on FA, you are the reason why artists are here.
And so I want you to get in to the habit of following artists on other platforms other than FA.
The problems i brought up a year ago (https://sfw.furaffinity.net/journal/10569374/) were never resolved and will likely never be fixed. A year later trying to find clarity on how this all played out, I'm finding that there never was any clarity provided. This is not a safe platform for artists to use, and the community would be better served by moving elsewhere. In addition, FA as a gallery site is indefensibly broken. Tag blocking is not a "nice-to-have", it is a fundamentally necessary feature that should disqualify any gallery site from being called a safe or serious platform. You simply can not keep a community safe without a culture of tagging images and a set of tools to use tags to hide content, it is impossible. And so FA is not a safe website for sensitive furs.
And truthfully, FA is not going to improve on any of those points. It is naive to believe otherwise. Things will only ever get better and the community will only ever be safer and more accessible if we go somewhere else.
So while I'm going to do the absolute best I can to make my FA gallery as good as I can, and while I'm going to have an absolute blast interacting with talented artists and sharing art with anypony who wants to see it <3, I'm also not going to be shy, at all, about encouraging fluffers away from this platform. Because it has to happen. Better platforms exist today, and the only thing holding them back is the furry community's willingness to use them.
You can follow me here, I'd love to have you around. But while you're here, please consider taking a step towards a better community as well.
If you'd like to follow me on other platforms as well as on FA, you can find me on:
★ Itaku: https://itaku.ee/profile/foxyoreos
★ Aryion: https://aryion.com/g4/user/foxyoreos
★ Mastodon: https://gulp.cafe/@foxyoreos
★ Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/foxyoreos
★ Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~foxyoreos
★ Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos
★ # https://foxyoreos.itch.io/
You can message me on SIgnal (foxyoreos.66) or Matrix (@foxyoreos:bark.lgbt). I maintain a local fork of Postybirb that makes tagging easier (https://codeberg.org/foxyoreos/postybirb-plus-local-changes) if you'd like help mirroring posts to both FA and other galleries. Get in touch if you'd like help with anything <3
Find me on Inkbunny/Itaku :3
General | Posted 2 years agoI don't think any of my current pieces fall afoul of Furaffinity's new policy, and I think my characters are all obviously adults, but it's not worth the drama to check. I don't want to be constantly policing my own art based on arbitrary criteria. And I definitely don't want to be hanging out in a space where drawing an Eevee will be seen as an invitation to claim that I'm into cub. It's just not worth it.
There are ways that FA could have tightened its content restrictions without inviting these kinds of accusations and without making artists scared to upload artwork. Just look at Inkbunny's "no humans" rule for an example of how to phrase a tight ban on a category of art without implying that there's something wrong with people who draw Pokemon having sex with their trainers. Also notice how it's immediately obvious what content will and won't fall afoul of that policy (does it have a human in it) and for the most part outside of very narrow grey areas I don't have to guess whether a picture is allowed based on a subjective opinion that might vary dramatically based on which random moderator happens to look at the image. FA's policy has none of that care or clarity and offers no guarantees about enforcement beyond "trust us." That is one of the reasons why 2.7 debate has devolved into stupid arguments about what is and isn't chibi art.
But the vagueness of the policy is only one problem. It should go without saying that given the current political "climate" in the United States, it is irresponsible for FA to feed into accusations that drawing cute characters or Pokemon is equivalent to drawing underage content. I've seen one or two comments from FA staff that they're not trying to make those accusations, but none of FA's public statements and none of the public policy announcements from the site itself draw that distinction. It's harmful. This will be used as ammo to attack LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent people. FA needs to either own that or figure out a way of publicly phrasing their policies so that it's obvious that they are not accusing this content of being cub and that they are not accusing their critics of being attracted to minors.
So far there's been no willingness from FA to do so, because vaguely insinuating that your critics are pedophiles (even if you don't say it outright) is an easy way to dismiss them and shield yourself from legitimate criticism. Never mind that furry cons are being forced to designate themselves as 18+ now. Never mind that there is a coordinated attack on online porn across multiple states right now. Never mind that we've already seen a transgender person arrested under anti-drag laws for just public speech. Never mind that we are increasingly seeing arguments that transgender people just existing visually in public spaces makes those spaces dangerous for kids. And never mind that "they're actually attracted to children and they're trying to groom them" has always been the primary dogwhistle used to fuel anti-LGBTQ+ bigots. None of that stuff is relevant of course, just keep deflecting criticism, that won't have any knock-on effects. After all, what could possibly be the harm in having a removal policy that randomly designates fictional species as cub unless they're "aged up" using completely unexplained metrics? Surely that won't have consequences for artists.
I know that if I went on Twitter and said any of this, I'd be quickly surrounded by a bunch of very "innocently" inquisitive people asking "what does this possibly have to do with being gay?" and making arguments that this was just a non-sequitur or a distraction. And all of those "innocent" inquisitive people would be saying that at the exact same time that a bunch of other trolls would also be commenting alongside them, "isn't it suspicious that the gays are always up in arms about measures to protect children, hmmmm? Almost tells you something about the real gay agenda."
That willful ignorance about the effect of this "debate" is exactly the problem. Whatever FA's intention is, this policy in its current form is ammo for bigots to feed into a narrative about how LGBTQ+ communities are dangerous. Regardless of what FA intends to say or even if they have completely innocent reasons for their phrasing, this is still FA very publicly implying that people who lewd Pokemon are attracted to minors. That is exactly how bigots will read it, and FA needs to have at least some degree of awareness of how their statements are going to be interpreted and weaponized by bad-faith actors. But FA doesn't have that awareness. And it only gets worse when FA moderators or staff actually go so far as to lean into those comparisons just because it helps them win some stupid Internet arguments by pandering to a bunch of puriteens who are obsessed with being "respectable" for the homophobes and transphobes who couldn't care less and who fucking hate all of us.
Well honestly, fuck that. Call this an attack if you want, but implying that critics are into underage porn (or standing back and shrugging and being silent when people make that accusation on your behalf to defend you) is an actual attack. The kind that has real-world consequences for both individuals and communities. Anyone who doesn't understand how that's harmful is not fucking paying much attention to the world right now.
But that's enough about that. Here's something a bit more pawsitive. <3 <3 <3 <3
I'm now on both ★Inkbunny★ and ★Itaku★, and they have some really nice features that would make using them worth even without the drama. Inkbunny has better image grouping and fewer restrictions around upload sizes. This makes it easy for me to upload higher resolution artwork and to include progress pictures alongside finished pieces, which was a concern I had with FA. :3
Itaku is a little bit worse than Inkbunny as a gallery, but it's way better as a social site. I'm hoping to be a little bit more friendly on there and to come out of my shell more and interact with the community more, and to share more sketches and practice art and in-progress pieces because I can do that without cluttering up my gallery. I know I haven't posted anything in a long time, so I'm hoping Itaku gets rid of some of my anxiety around at least posting sketches.
So I actually feel very good about the move because the new sites fixe a lot of worries I had about using FA as a primary art gallery in the first place. I'll try my very best to post more artwork and to be more social <3 And if either of them get shitty, at least now I'm uploading most of my art to multiple places so the impact will be minimized.
Here is the full list of places you can find me online. Same rules apply, I don't want anypony interacting with my accounts (even under my SFW art) unless you're 18+. But otherwise you're totally welcome to come and say "hewo" =w=
- https://itaku.ee/profile/foxyoreos
- https://inkbunny.net/foxyoreos
- https://aryion.com/g4/user/3rqw34 (vore only, don't go here unless that's actually what you want to see)
I won't delete my FA account, but I will remove most of the explicit artwork I have uploaded. I just think that's simpler to do then to try to decide which pieces I'd feel worried about leaving up. With the exception of some WIP pieces, most of what I've made should be uploaded to the other galleries above. :3
There are ways that FA could have tightened its content restrictions without inviting these kinds of accusations and without making artists scared to upload artwork. Just look at Inkbunny's "no humans" rule for an example of how to phrase a tight ban on a category of art without implying that there's something wrong with people who draw Pokemon having sex with their trainers. Also notice how it's immediately obvious what content will and won't fall afoul of that policy (does it have a human in it) and for the most part outside of very narrow grey areas I don't have to guess whether a picture is allowed based on a subjective opinion that might vary dramatically based on which random moderator happens to look at the image. FA's policy has none of that care or clarity and offers no guarantees about enforcement beyond "trust us." That is one of the reasons why 2.7 debate has devolved into stupid arguments about what is and isn't chibi art.
But the vagueness of the policy is only one problem. It should go without saying that given the current political "climate" in the United States, it is irresponsible for FA to feed into accusations that drawing cute characters or Pokemon is equivalent to drawing underage content. I've seen one or two comments from FA staff that they're not trying to make those accusations, but none of FA's public statements and none of the public policy announcements from the site itself draw that distinction. It's harmful. This will be used as ammo to attack LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent people. FA needs to either own that or figure out a way of publicly phrasing their policies so that it's obvious that they are not accusing this content of being cub and that they are not accusing their critics of being attracted to minors.
So far there's been no willingness from FA to do so, because vaguely insinuating that your critics are pedophiles (even if you don't say it outright) is an easy way to dismiss them and shield yourself from legitimate criticism. Never mind that furry cons are being forced to designate themselves as 18+ now. Never mind that there is a coordinated attack on online porn across multiple states right now. Never mind that we've already seen a transgender person arrested under anti-drag laws for just public speech. Never mind that we are increasingly seeing arguments that transgender people just existing visually in public spaces makes those spaces dangerous for kids. And never mind that "they're actually attracted to children and they're trying to groom them" has always been the primary dogwhistle used to fuel anti-LGBTQ+ bigots. None of that stuff is relevant of course, just keep deflecting criticism, that won't have any knock-on effects. After all, what could possibly be the harm in having a removal policy that randomly designates fictional species as cub unless they're "aged up" using completely unexplained metrics? Surely that won't have consequences for artists.
I know that if I went on Twitter and said any of this, I'd be quickly surrounded by a bunch of very "innocently" inquisitive people asking "what does this possibly have to do with being gay?" and making arguments that this was just a non-sequitur or a distraction. And all of those "innocent" inquisitive people would be saying that at the exact same time that a bunch of other trolls would also be commenting alongside them, "isn't it suspicious that the gays are always up in arms about measures to protect children, hmmmm? Almost tells you something about the real gay agenda."
That willful ignorance about the effect of this "debate" is exactly the problem. Whatever FA's intention is, this policy in its current form is ammo for bigots to feed into a narrative about how LGBTQ+ communities are dangerous. Regardless of what FA intends to say or even if they have completely innocent reasons for their phrasing, this is still FA very publicly implying that people who lewd Pokemon are attracted to minors. That is exactly how bigots will read it, and FA needs to have at least some degree of awareness of how their statements are going to be interpreted and weaponized by bad-faith actors. But FA doesn't have that awareness. And it only gets worse when FA moderators or staff actually go so far as to lean into those comparisons just because it helps them win some stupid Internet arguments by pandering to a bunch of puriteens who are obsessed with being "respectable" for the homophobes and transphobes who couldn't care less and who fucking hate all of us.
Well honestly, fuck that. Call this an attack if you want, but implying that critics are into underage porn (or standing back and shrugging and being silent when people make that accusation on your behalf to defend you) is an actual attack. The kind that has real-world consequences for both individuals and communities. Anyone who doesn't understand how that's harmful is not fucking paying much attention to the world right now.
But that's enough about that. Here's something a bit more pawsitive. <3 <3 <3 <3
I'm now on both ★Inkbunny★ and ★Itaku★, and they have some really nice features that would make using them worth even without the drama. Inkbunny has better image grouping and fewer restrictions around upload sizes. This makes it easy for me to upload higher resolution artwork and to include progress pictures alongside finished pieces, which was a concern I had with FA. :3
Itaku is a little bit worse than Inkbunny as a gallery, but it's way better as a social site. I'm hoping to be a little bit more friendly on there and to come out of my shell more and interact with the community more, and to share more sketches and practice art and in-progress pieces because I can do that without cluttering up my gallery. I know I haven't posted anything in a long time, so I'm hoping Itaku gets rid of some of my anxiety around at least posting sketches.
So I actually feel very good about the move because the new sites fixe a lot of worries I had about using FA as a primary art gallery in the first place. I'll try my very best to post more artwork and to be more social <3 And if either of them get shitty, at least now I'm uploading most of my art to multiple places so the impact will be minimized.
Here is the full list of places you can find me online. Same rules apply, I don't want anypony interacting with my accounts (even under my SFW art) unless you're 18+. But otherwise you're totally welcome to come and say "hewo" =w=
- https://itaku.ee/profile/foxyoreos
- https://inkbunny.net/foxyoreos
- https://aryion.com/g4/user/3rqw34 (vore only, don't go here unless that's actually what you want to see)
I won't delete my FA account, but I will remove most of the explicit artwork I have uploaded. I just think that's simpler to do then to try to decide which pieces I'd feel worried about leaving up. With the exception of some WIP pieces, most of what I've made should be uploaded to the other galleries above. :3
I don't know where to put full resolution artwork
General | Posted 3 years agoFuraffinity has an upload resolution limit of 1280x1280. Almost every piece of artwork I have on this site is downscaled in quality from the original. So I looked around to see if there was somewhere else I could upload the full resolution versions that wouldn't be very much work, and then I could link them in the descriptions.
I created an account on e621, but the site feels intimidating for artists. Also e621 forces you to include a gender tag and the "tag what you see" rule would force me to misgender characters that I either think of as transgender or where I don't know what their gender is yet. (I don't know why "tag what you see" even applies to gender in the first place, because gender isn't purely "what you see". If they just wanted everypony to tag characters as having a penis or wide hips or even overall looking masculine or feminine, that would be different, but saying that tags that describe the body isn't enough and that it has to include a gender tag anyway makes me feel weird. It's not even useful for searching, any time I use e621 I just search for body tags because they're more accurate.) So I don't know if I want my art there or not.
Inkbunny exists, but I don't know very much about it. I haven't made a DeviantArt account. I haven't been on that site for a long time but I remember it being very annoying to use. I don't want to make a Twitter. I think Twitter downsizes images anyway.
I'm just drawing horny pictures, this requires too much thought ÒwÓ
If I do find a good image host I'll start linking the full resolution pictures inside the descriptions of artwork that I upload to furaffinity. And if anypony reading this has a suggestion, please let me know :3
I created an account on e621, but the site feels intimidating for artists. Also e621 forces you to include a gender tag and the "tag what you see" rule would force me to misgender characters that I either think of as transgender or where I don't know what their gender is yet. (I don't know why "tag what you see" even applies to gender in the first place, because gender isn't purely "what you see". If they just wanted everypony to tag characters as having a penis or wide hips or even overall looking masculine or feminine, that would be different, but saying that tags that describe the body isn't enough and that it has to include a gender tag anyway makes me feel weird. It's not even useful for searching, any time I use e621 I just search for body tags because they're more accurate.) So I don't know if I want my art there or not.
Inkbunny exists, but I don't know very much about it. I haven't made a DeviantArt account. I haven't been on that site for a long time but I remember it being very annoying to use. I don't want to make a Twitter. I think Twitter downsizes images anyway.
I'm just drawing horny pictures, this requires too much thought ÒwÓ
If I do find a good image host I'll start linking the full resolution pictures inside the descriptions of artwork that I upload to furaffinity. And if anypony reading this has a suggestion, please let me know :3
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