You will be able to follow me here (my art is categorized in the highlights tab)
https://x.com/SuperMintyDog

Or you can follow me on e621
https://e621.net/users/381831

Also Telegram
https://t.me/MintyDogArts

And probably everywhere else. I'd been here a very long time, I'm sad but I'm not going to be a part of FA any longer.

By the way I'm not doing this because I want too, it breaks my heart :<

https://twitter.com/SuperMintyDog

If you frens wanna come help me get things going there, I wanna follow some frens, get invited to your sleep overs and stuff.

So what I wanna do is use it to post WIPs of stuff I'm working on, get feedback, get your ideas, really just talk with people and be involved with everyone.

What I also want to do is help anyone who wants advice or draw/paint overs. Not that I'm a teacher or that I can do it better but I just like helping people with their art questions and if you like what I paint, I'd like to help with anything you want my input on.

Anyways my chinese food is here, so I'd like to see you pop in and say hi!

I will cope with the sobering realities of my advancing age by eating an irresponsible amount of Chinese food. No cake and ice cream, I follow the General Tso principals of war... and of birthdays.

Bring twix.

https://www.guilded.gg/i/2ye5zLL2?c.....mp;intent=chat

If you'd like to commission me, I'm going to use the rest of this month to work on a full sized piece maybe two if I'm lucky, I might try working on them simultaneously which could be good to shake up any art block, if multiple people request one, I will consider which one I'd like to go with and offer a queue if you would like to reserve for later, but I know scheduling commissions out in advance tends to not work out.

I'm finding myself not doing art, which is a bad thing. I distract myself away from it for obvious reasons, obvious to some.

I've priced king size at $300 which I know is a lot but I do have to spend considerable amounts of time on it. My policy is this, when we agree to an idea, I will do up a rough and quick sketch to show you the general idea, see if you like it, then if you agree too it, we finalize the deal. Then what works for me is to get in contact via telegram, guilded or line so that I can ask questions, send WIP's and get your input on various things. I want to make sure what you end up with is what you want and isn't a "surprise, this is something else" situation. I record a timelapse (should there be no error in the software) and will turn it into a video for my Rumble and Odysee channels.

If there is no interest right now, I may move my computer from my art space and do something else for a while.

Also you gonna finish that twix or?....

So one of the things that I have been busy with this whole past year was not art, but I'd spent it doing construction actually. In early January I climbed up in my attic above my bedroom and noticed that the whole area was completely empty, no floor, no walls, no insulation, just rafters and a window for the outside aesthetic of the house. So I thought what if I came in here with some wood and put down a floor, then I could use it as a loft by climbing up through a hole in the ceiling and free up some space down below.

Well I did that, only instead of being a bed area, it became an entire bedroom with levels and stairs and even a hallway. I've got carpet in here, I made a built in floor desk, I got a computer running and now I'm hoping to resume livestreaming. I've set up my streamlabs with a new look, new format and the only damn thing keeping me from getting excited about it is my eyes making making me so miserable.

The building is what I'd been doing to escape from it. I burned the hell out of my inner thigh, I cut my finger open, I smashed my thumbnail, hurt myself every day. Its mostly done. I'll show the room on stream if you're interested, or I'll post some pictures in the scraps.

Anyways, I've created an account on GETTR because I hate twitter with every fiber of my being. I'd like it if you joined me there, I'm going to post updates on my art, WIPs, talk about whatever. You can find a lot of people to follow there, Joe Rogan, Rob Schneider, Ricky Berwick even Tommy Wiseau. Lot of furries too, so take over the platform if you want, I'd like to make it less political but that will happen with more people getting on there.

FOLLOW ON GETTR

I also have a channel on Odysee where I post videos I make sometimes.

VIDEOS ON ODYSEE

I may begin to stream it, the past year has been very hard for me. Those of you who know, know. I'm finding it difficult to face the thing I love doing most under a condition that targets it and my love of it the most. I've had a painting nearly finished, untouched for the past year that I'm just kind of glancing over at, touching it a few times. Honestly I'm so scared I'm going to try and commit to working on it just to realize how troubled my ability to see my art has become. I'm trying a little at least.


what can you do?...

Lola was the most kind hearted, gentlest, sweetest Dog I've ever known. My neighbors dog who greeted me after moving to my home in Alabama, she ran to me and flopped over, let me pet her belly and immediately became part of our family.

We didn't own Lola, but she was just as much a part of our family as the other Dogs. She would sleep in our house, we fed her, we took her to the vet, we even birthed her 10 puppies and raised them till they were old enough to be adopted out. Her boyfriend buddy who was responsible for those puppies broke out of his home and came to ours every day. He and Lola would just be walking around together and greet me every time I came out.

Lola would jump onto my bed, throw her arms around me and tuck her head into my chest and fall asleep. If I stopped petting her I would get a paw to the face. I cant tell you how much I loved that Dog even though she wasn't ours. We did more for her than her owners ever did. When her owners heard she died....he said "oh really?"

They wouldn't even give her to us, they said "we love Lola". Did you? Because if you gave her to us and she didn't have to be let outside so you could keep calling her your Dog, she wouldn't have been hit by a car and wouldn't have died alone in the rain.

While I'm so angry at them, all I can think about is how I didn't let her inside that one time that day because she was wet. It was the last time I ever saw her, me closing the door on her.

She wasn't even 2 years old. I don't know where to direct my anger, at them, at myself, at God, at the person who hit her and left her. I can't accept that shes dead.

The sweetest Dog God ever made and I pray my heart out that shes with him. I love you Lola.

I've never talked about this, but many years ago I was at one of my lowest points in my life as the thought of hell got stuck in my head and I began suffering under the weight of the magnitude of such an impossibly horrific thing happening to others, some in my family or even myself. It was so emotionally devastating it felt like a hell in itself, I did not know how to come to grips with God inflicting a punishment so impossibly cruel and I couldn't cope with the thought of anyone, even the devil himself going through it.

At the time I was trying to make certain that I was saved, because what if I got something wrong and this was my fate? I'll admit that too this day I'm concerned about it, but thats kind of always been my nature, to be unsure and need confirmation.

Well what happened during that time was that while I was looking into it and saw many "bible answers" pages telling me, YES! In fact its even worse than that! You will burn in agony for all eternity and in a trillion years of writhing in incomprehensible pain, you will have only just begun your punishment". They'd even go so far as to claim that us in heaven would revel in delight at the sight of this, joyous, cheerful celebration that our friends and family are trapped in an oven for infinite time. I'm sure to you and those who are not Christians have even realized how totally out of left field this seems, it just doesn't add up with the option of free will or the nature of God's lessons on just punishments befitting a crime. After all, when your only choices are live forever in heaven or be roasted forever, are you really making a choice here? Is that love or fear? How could God love us if he knowingly created us with full knowledge that he'd intentionally create this torture chamber to put most of us? Would any parent do this to their own child? I wouldn't do it to any human being thats ever lived, not even would I do it to the Devil for 24 hours. Its a punishment so inexplicably horrendously cruel and unthinkable that nothing could possibly be more evil. An infinite punishment is not justified for a temporary life of sin.

That's when I found some writings by Edward Fudge, he was researching the Bible on this very issue to find out what the Bible had to say about it. He had held the belief that this is what the Bible teaches, but when going through the Bible both Old and New Testament, he found that there was little to actually back up this claim, wherein fact the Bible was much more clear that hell, while very real, was not infinite. When you bring this up to some people, they immediately think, HERESEY! Hes questioning the teachings of God! Hes liberalizing the Bible, hes softening it to be more palatable! But its not true, whats written in the Bible has to be accepted by believers, but there is little to back up the traditional view that hell is Gods sadistic torture chamber, but for a few symbolic verses that we infer must be suggesting this as its what was always taught.

The traditional view wrongly holds the belief that man's soul is inherently immortal therefore, you'll live forever in heaven or in hell. But nowhere is this suggested, this was a view brought into Christianity by converted Greek philosophers and taught as orthodoxy since then. Immortality is conditional upon accepting God's sacrifice on the cross, you accept him and live or reject him and cease to live. People are afraid to question it, its so engrained in the Christian church that to even begin thinking it must be wrong (even when we all feel so deeply disgusted at the thought of it and wish more than anything it werent true), means we are committing an act of heresy against God. But wouldn't it be more gravely offensive to go around the world telling people that God is the kind of being that would set your grandmother on fire for not one minute, not 1 hour, not 1 day, not 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, 1 decade, 1 century, not even a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion years would be enough screaming agony to pay for her sin of "not believing in Jesus".

I now no longer hold this belief and not because I'm choosing a false belief that makes me feel better, but because I believe the traditional teachings of hell are the false beliefs and it is unacceptable that it is being taught to our children and told to those estranged from God that this is who they must worship. Its a lie about Gods character and is doing more damage to bringing people to salvation than anything else. I'm not going to try to prove it to you, but if you're interested in researching it I suggest you watch lectures by Edward Fudge on Youtube or you can read about it here;

https://www.hellhadesafterlife.com/.....al-immortality

I think this gives a good quick rundown on the many arguments in favor of this view, edward fudge does a great job showing both sides. It is a scriptural look through of the Bible, the passages that reference the fate of the unsaved and the exegesis of the meaning of words used. Its interesting if not only just to dispel this silly idea people have about hell, whether its the place satan runs with his pitchfork or the medieval pits of fire that was used to terrify people into the church.

I think if you take the time to carefully go through the issue, you'll come to find that a lot more things make sense and align with the nature of our existence, our relationship with God and free will. Is it not more just that God gave us life out of nothing and said, you have failed, but because I lived and died in your place, you can either go back to the nothing you were or by my grace you can live forever? That makes a lot more sense than, I created you to ultimately torture you for all eternity, so love me and I'll spare you." It doesn't just logically make more sense, its scriptural and in keeping with the character of God. We are all given the sense of God's fair justice, whether we are Christian or not, we are not totally without the presence of God and in us he instilled these senses about moral virtue. If every human being on the planet knows that eternal torture is not just and God teaches fair punishment for severity of the crime, then its fair to say there is something off about the traditional teachings of hell. Even pastors know it, they'll never own up to what hell really is and try to gloss over it. They'll say eternal separation from God or just call it hell, but they won't say "infinite conscious torture", because they're ashamed of it, but too afraid to question if its even true.

Knowing this has helped me to feel closer to God, I'm failing him terribly, I'm failing at my own life terribly, but I think that being saved causes a constant strife within you to not feel comfortable in your life the way you are and look for the things in it to better and be more in line with God. I think if I struggle with this at all, then I must be hearing God speaking to me.

Jesus says that you are changed when you accept him, you become new and through his grace alone, not works, not good deeds, nothing YOU do, saves you from death. To be saved, you confess that Jesus took your sins upon him and died in your place and that you accept his given gift of salvation through him. You confess that you are a sinner and ask him to forgive. Believe that he is the Lord, even though you might doubt or question or fear, have faith in him and accept him into your heart. Its by grace alone you are saved, meaning you do not deserve it at all and you can't impress God by doing good, kind or charitable things, your life is only saved eternally through Jesus's sacrifice. Its a gift given that you accept and in doing so, being changed, you feel the constant nagging conflict to fight against your sin even if you don't do a great job of it.

I guess thats what I wanted to get out, I've really never done a good job spreading the word like I should because I'm not a social person, I can't speak very well, I've been too caught up in my own troubles and I just don't know enough. But on this issue, I really wanted to share, because I have no doubt others are troubled by it and I shouldn't keep it to myself assuming everyone else already knows or will find it on their own. I hope this helps and I truly hope I could lead at least one person to being saved. I think people get it into their mind that becoming a Christian means becoming a boring church mom who wags her finger at "naughty words" and has no fun in life, everything is a sin. I do not believe so, I think Christians often invent sins to abstain from in order to look more pure and pious.

Whats most important is to ask God for forgiveness and salvation because that is the seed that grows inside you. I would often take the approach of proving God must exist scientifically and logically and I think thats a good idea, but in doing that I always argued for a generic "creator of all things" but did not proclaim Jesus. I figured if I could argue for the existence of a God first, then I could then speak of the Bible, but I don't seem to get to step 2 because its rather difficult convincing people of something like that.

Anyways not to keep going on. Please take a look at the link or look up seminars by Edward Fudge, its interesting nonetheless and should even change your opinion from an atheist point of view about hell and Christianity.

If you're wondering about my art, my vision has been getting a lot worse, I'm trying to work through it mentally and emotionally and I want to keep painting. The past 3 months I've actually been renovating my attic and I've built a whole bedroom up above mine. So now I have two rooms, one stacked on top of the one you've seen before in my scraps. It was just rafters up there, I built in a floor, walls, slatboard ceiling, a loft within a loft, its got electrical, fully insulated. All I need to do now is put in a door at the attic exit, drywall some more, add carpet and hardwood flooring then drop kick a hole through the floor right into my 1st floor bedroom ceiling, build a ladder and its good. I intend to do art (hopefully) up in that room.

I'm making a point to not post videos to youtube and instead build up competing sites. Will it result in me reaching less people? Yes, certainly for the time being, will anyone care? Not really I don't have a following on youtube either. But I never intended to become a video creator, though the things that I do make, such as art timelapses, some gaming videos, I have a bunch of stuff recorded that I haven't edited, thats going to be exclusive to Odysee, Rumble and Bitchute.

I simply find big tech's stranglehold on the marketplace in terms of forcing compliance to TOS offsite and appstores removing competing services for made up charges while they are all of themselves guilty of it a billion times over, at the very least I want them to sweat the possibility of a competitor moving in on their disaffected users.

I'm still uploading videos to get them up to date, but if you are interested, I'll have the links here.

Odysee: https://odysee.com/@AverageDog:d
Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Ijwvw1ihDCEq/

If you want my opinion, Odysee is my favorite, it has the most mainstream content from big names on youtube, will auto upload videos posted to youtube, has the best design, best features and is still its early stages. These kinds of sites have a rough period, it requires users to join and populate it before it can be at a stage that most people want to join in, its a self fulfilling prophecy in my mind to wait for them to have all of the people you want to watch before you watch, thats why I'm going to join and help to build it up. It feels like early youtube to me, where it was more of a wild west, without the heavy hand of corporate meddling making sure its as sanitized as can be for fickle advertisers.

I know I haven't been making much stuff lately, I have been working on things, I do have an almost completed painting, almost completed VR avatar and a few videos, but my vision problem is honestly horrific and I'm as down as ever.

anyway my chicken is done and I'm going to put it in my face. Hope you'll take a look at the platforms and go into it with the right frame of mind about its possibility. If you find users or videos there you dislike, I suggest adding more stuff you prefer to change the atmosphere, thats the beauty of a neutral platform in my mind.


-Frien

I don't know how its going to go but I'm giving it a shot. I'll stream for a little while

https://picarto.tv/MintyDog
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You might not know that I have a neurological condition that affects my vision at all times, cant treat it, cant find it, cant do anything about it. its the reason I stopped painting all those years ago, but at some point I had made peace with it and was able to tune it out to continue painting for the past 3 years.

Lately, out of nowhere, its gotten worse in different ways. I've been doing nothing but laying here every day, hoping the next new thing I try will help, but then it just gets worse. I didn't want to write up a journal about it because I didn't want to give any validity to the problem, that might not make sense, but avoidance is one of my coping mechanisms. I lay here and I get mad at God for giving me the ability to paint, but then taking away my healthy sight, but that's not fair because he hasn't done this too me and I'm just acting poorly out of hurt.

I really love to paint and I don't want to lose it. I have very little left. Part of me is saying, just stop being so weak and paint. So your vision is messed up, just get over it and make something. Plenty of artists fought through worse disabilities and did great things. I'm extremely obsessive over anything that isn't right, its part of my personality, I fixate on it, its proving very difficult to handle.

I think I should just start painting again, but I don't know what to do. I don't feel inspired, I feel scared. I don't want to face it. You ever feel like your main fears always come true just because you were afraid of them? I do, they have.

I'm trying to will myself into getting up and going back to painting.

thanks for listening though, I had to say something.

https://dlive.tv/MintyDog
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95.7% of you won't share this :'< 1 like = 1 twix

But also furries are banned, no watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpi.....848zInx4AaABAg

Also the end includes my beat saber animation I had been working on but stopped to do commissions. So its unfinished.

I thought this commission might be easier, but it isn't. Why is water this hard to paint? I have no idea what I'm doing, I've spent 3 days just trying to make it look like water, redoing it again and again, bouta get amgry and take y'alls shoes.

Stupid ocean. Fight me in the streets.

So I'm just making up an excuse to post a journal. I'm not inactive here because I don't come here, but more that my art takes me such a long time I dont know how to fill up the inbetween. I'm very slow at art, I think for as much skill I am lacking, I try to make up for it in tenacity. Just spending all the time necessary messing with a problem area until by statistical probability I chance into something looking good enough.

I've started a youtube channel which is largely aimless, I've been throwing up beat saber gameplay but my long term focus is using it for art stuff. I've made two timelapse videos of my pieces and I think thats something I want to go along with my larger sized commissions, an additional video that documents the process which is in the last case, a very long process. I doubt people are going to sit through an 1hr and 30min of me messing around with wrinkles in a pair of pants. I'd love it if I were the kind of artist who throws down a line and its just exactly the right thing but my brain doesn't seem to work that way and I have to start out with the equivalent of crayon fridge art and slowly work it into something better. These timelapses have actually had a bit of a negative effect on my art, because I've been having to consider it while I'm drawing, thinking about how all of these pauses or breaks I'm taking need to be edited out, it puts pressure on me that I didn't use to have and I've found it unhelpful...Though recently I've kind of pushed myself to just let it run and let future me worry about the editing process.

What else is, my art is actually very contingent upon me mackin and snacc'in. Like I need to be face first into a bowl of cronchy chocolate smackums to do it and I've actually been doing p90x3 for over a month now, which means I have to eat more sensibly.

What else is there to bring up?...
Thinking about doing more human feet for my characters instead of the traditional 4 toe paws. I don't actually like human feet better, but I think I've had trouble getting the right aesthetics with it and wonder if 5 toe style with a large pad sole would be better.

uhh...My brain is a haze right now. Journal over, I'm gonna go grab another handful of twix which i put in the kitchen hoping it would detour me from eating too much but it hasn't.

COMMISSIONS WORK LIST
SPOT 1:  MahaloCheetah
SPOT 2:  Sheparoo
SPOT 3: OPEN
SPOT 4: OPEN
SPOT 5: OPEN

COMMISSIONS WORK LIST
SPOT 1: OPEN
SPOT 2: OPEN
SPOT 3: OPEN
SPOT 4: OPEN
SPOT 5: OPEN

Thanks to everyone for choosing me a Dog!

Well here's the scoop. I'm looking to do a larger commission, haven't done one in a while and I want it to be the trial run for my youtube channel. I want to attempt to record the whole process through timelapse and make it my first art video on my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG.....dZaoCEATuitS-g

Right my now my channel is me playing Beat Saber and I feel totally disillusioned in it. If I get multiple offers I will have to read them and then contact the person with confirmation that theirs is the one I want to go with or set up another queue if you would like to wait, or if I get none I'll go eat all the twix in the pantry.


In case you aren't sure about how I do things. I like to stream commissions and keep in close contact during the process to ask questions and give frequent updates so that there is no disappointment, confusion or disagreements. When finished, we both retain the rights to post and share it wherever and however.

I feel bad because I haven't done much streaming or art around the time of our move, I have my room largely finished now, I'll share that in a little bit and I'd like to work on art more.

The commission doesn't have to be Christmas themed, then again I haven't done one of those in a long time.

Here's a link to my largely incomplete and not entirely up to date with examples commission info: https://www.furaffinity.net/commissions/fuzzle/

Anyway this has been Dog.

I'm about 100 frames into an animation that's not even all that great, for a thing nobody likes but me, its too late to stop and there is still so much more to do. This is taking forever. I had to draw this same body hundreds of times, then go back over each frame to clean up the sloppy mess of a sketch into something clean and ....oh man. I bought Clip Studio Paint EX so I could have more than 24 frames and now I'm at frame 97.

I thought hey lets make a neat little animation to start my beat saber videos, then I realized, oh yeah, everyone hates me playing beat saber and there is no furry cross over audience to that and my lame youtube channel. Anyway Im going to go eat some yogurt with M&M's. For when you want to be healthier but not TOO healthy.

I want to thank everyone for their suggestions but I think I found an option and I want to share it if anyone else wanted a solution as well. I tell you I searched for hours and hours and came up with nothing before. But today I throw in a search and I find Cafe Recorder. I just tested it out and everything seems to work fine except things seem to stutter when moving them around, like desktop windows or panning in the image. I don't know how to fix that but I don't think I can identify any stuttering while painting or in the cursor movements. Its a simple program, just pick the monitor, the resolution and there is start, pause and stop. Best thing I've found so far, playback looks nice and smooth, you can even choose the speed of the timelapse. So I'm going to try and start recording my livestreams in timelapse and then create youtube videos showing the process.

Anyways the real reason I came in here was cause I heard someone crinkle a bag, you got snaccs?

https://www.lomakescomics.com/cafe/#about

I've looked all over for how to do this, but the best I can figure is people are recording exceptionally large full video files and then speeding them up in video editing software. Since I livestream and I take a good bit of time on my art, theres no way I could store files that large. Is there really no software that takes native timelapse captures of your desktop? Dog is gettin upset!

I keep trying to find a good time but there doesn't seem to be any consistency. I dunno what can ya do? Eat more twix I guess.

Things come up, I'm surrounded by a bit of chaos, having to build things, I have to go somewhere today and if I get back soon enough I should be able to do a little streaming and work on those commissions. I've gotten things set up enough that I should be ready to start getting things done. I feel terrible about having taken commissions and not done anything with them yet. I got a different art monitor and that threw off my picarto set up, so I'm currently adjusting all that, gotta go to my brothers and then hopefully I'll be back and I need to do beat saber too because I've gained 7 lbs. I'm not entirely sure but it COULD have been the fact that I've been eating chinese and reeses pieces every day, its just one theory.

I also really need to get some curtains, my neighbors can easily see right into my window and directly at the filthy furry art I'm drawing, also me getting down on some beat saber.