The last commission slot has been purchased, so commissions are currently closed. As previously mentioned, this will probably be the last set I do for the year, possibly longer.

After this, my priority is completely finishing my short film, which I’m projecting will be done at the end of January.

Thanks to everyone who bought something for their patronage.

I’m planning to leave the Discord server I started at the end of this year, after I pass ownership over to someone else. As such, I won’t be doing my PWYW Livestreams there any more, and while I already haven’t been doing them as often as I used to, I do want to get back to streaming semi-regularly.

For a number of reasons, I don’t only want to do streams where viewers pay me to draw things, but I would still like to have streaming be optional source of income for me. Ideally, what I’d like to do is stream from a site like Picarto or Twitch and, on it, include a button that links to my Ko-Fi so viewers who’d like to make small donations have the option to do so, essentially “busking.”

Experienced streamers, are there specific sites you’d recommend for this?

Commissions are open for the month of August. I’m only taking three this month. I have one I took last month that I’ll add to the list.

Please read everything below if you're interested in getting something.


RATES
Sketch - $20
Colored Sketch - $25
Ink - $30
Flat Color - $50
Shaded Color - $60
Comics (per page/strip) - $75


RULES
1. Please make all commission purchases through Ko-Fi.
2. 3-5 commissions per month, one per customer per month.
3. As a courtesy, please ask me before posting your commission on your personal site.
4. With the exception of sketches, payments can be made in installments in the form of Ko-Fi donations.
5. With the exception of insects, scatalogical fetishes and sexually provocative scenes depicting characters under 18 years of age (including aged-up versions of child characters), themes as subjects which the artist will or will not draw are a case-by-decision. Farts are okay if they're funny.
6. Also as a courtesy, please allow potential buyers a ten day grace period before buying a piece two months in a row. For pieces that make up a series, that means each installment is it's own separate purchase.

Deadlines are flexible. If you need your commission completed by a certain date, please let me know and I'll plan my work schedule accordingly.

This will most likely be the last set of commissions I take this year. I’ve been burning my candle at both ends a lot this summer and I wanna spend the rest of the year just focusing on a select few projects and my survival job. I’ll be coming back from the UK on the sixth, then taking a few days to readjust (and get over a cold I caught while here).

I’ll be in England from the 23rd to the 6th visiting my wife. As of right now, I still have four slots open for this month. I’ll keep them open, but I won’t be able to start on them until the middle of August, at which point I’ll probably only offer three slots rather than the usual five. Still determining whether or not I’ll be able to make them time for any in September.

I apologize for not being on top of these things as much as I should, “life getting in the way” and all that. Actually had to give a refund for one slot because I wasn’t able to deliver.

Thank you to everyone who’s bought something from me lately for your patronage and patience.

Currently taking five commissions for the month of July. I have two more from June I need to finish, so these'll just get added to the list.

Please read everything below if you're interested in getting something.


RATES
Sketch - $20
Colored Sketch - $25
Ink - $30
Flat Color - $50
Shaded Color - $60
Comics (per page/strip) - $75


RULES
1. Please make all commission purchases through Ko-Fi.
2. 3-5 commissions per month, one per customer per month.
3. As a courtesy, please ask me before posting your commission on your personal site.
4. With the exception of sketches, payments can be made in installments in the form of Ko-Fi donations.
5. With the exception of insects, scatalogical fetishes and sexually provocative scenes depicting characters under 18 years of age (including aged-up versions of child characters), themes as subjects which the artist will or will not draw are a case-by-decision. Farts are okay if they're funny.
6. Also as a courtesy, please allow potential buyers a ten day grace period before buying a piece two months in a row. For pieces that make up a series, that means each installment is it's own separate purchase.

Deadlines are flexible. If you need your commission completed by a certain date, please let me know and I'll plan my work schedule accordingly.

If I finish all seven before the end of the month, I might take a couple more. More on that later.

Feel free to DM me here if you have any questions.

The five commission slots for June have sold out. If another one or two opens after I finish this batch, I'll make an announcement. Otherwise, there'll be more slots open next month.

Thanks to everyone for their patronage!

Just wanted to say that.

Nice work, everyone who participated!

Currently taking five commissions for the month of June.

Please read everything below if you're interested in getting something.


RATES
Sketch - $20
Colored Sketch - $25
Ink - $30
Flat Color - $50
Shaded Color - $60
Comics (per page/strip) - $75


RULES
1. Please make all commission purchases through Ko-Fi.
2. 3-5 commissions per month, one per customer per month.
3. As a courtesy, please ask me before posting your commission on your personal site.
4. With the exception of sketches, payments can be made in installments in the form of Ko-Fi donations.
5. With the exception of insects, scatalogical fetishes and sexually provocative scenes depicting characters under 18 years of age (including aged-up versions of child characters), themes as subjects which the artist will or will not draw are a case-by-decision. Farts are okay if they're funny.
6. Also as a courtesy, please allow potential buyers a ten day grace period before buying a piece two months in a row. For pieces that make up a series, that means each installment is it's own separate purchase.

Deadlines are flexible. If you need your commission completed by a certain date, please let me know and I'll plan my work schedule accordingly.

If I finish this slate of five early, I might take a couple more. More on that later.

Feel free to DM me here if you have any questions.

After talking to a couple of very good suit makers and looking over my current income situation, I've decided that a fursuit, even a partial one, is too big of an investment for me at the moment.

Thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions. Maybe another time.

Any fursuiters out there have a maker they would recommend for partials? I'm getting someone a partial raccoon suit (ears, paws, tail) for their birthday and I wanna start window shopping.

Thanks in advance.

Hello one and all. I hope you’re managing to have a happy, healthy holiday.

As I mentioned in my previous journal, I stopped taking commissions in October so I could finally address some shakeups in my personal life. The biggest was that, in April, I got myself fired from my survival job of six years. Because I was going to be spending September and October in the UK so I could get married to my partner, I had to stay unemployed until November, during which I faced a myriad of mental and physical health problems. Then in August, I had to hastily move back in with my parents when the rent for my apparent suddenly got too expensive for me. I’ve spent the last two months of 2024 readjusting to my new normalcy, including a new temp job.

Before all of this started, namely after going to a convention for the Society of Illustrators back in February, I felt that I needed to start pursuing a full-time career as an artist more seriously than I’d been doing up to this point, and I took my firing as the final push (or, more cynically, as self-sabotage, but that’s another story). In the midst of all the chaos, I took an intro to storyboarding class online, which made me realize that there were a number of fundamental skills (gesture, perspective, composition, animation, etc.) that I felt I needed to take the time to seriously improve before I started working on a portfolio or looking for jobs.

Therefore, my New Year’s Resolution is to spend most of 2025 studying and practicing on my own time, essentially putting myself back through art school. And that means a lot less posting.

While I don’t post especially frequently, for now, creating art with the intention of sharing it online is going to be a low priority. This also means commissions will be taken on an “if and when” basis. I know a few folks are waiting patiently for when I re-open for commissions, I’ll thank you all for your continued patience.

This is also in an effort to be less chronically online, to use the internet more as a tool for when I have something I actually want to share instead of just compulsively checking the same three sites over and over or doomscrolling. I’m not giving it up cold turkey, as trying that back in June is one of the things that lead to my aforementioned mental health problems, although I am going to take an indefinite hiatus from social media sites like Bluesky (it only took two months!) and Instagram. Plus, while progress continues to be made, the animated short film I’ve been largely creating by myself since 2021 is still a ways off from being finished.

TL, DR: commissions are now strictly a once-in-a-while thing, everything else I post will be based on whether or not I want to, if you don’t hear from me for a while it’s not because I’m dead, it’s because I’m studying or working on a big project.



Thanks in advance. Happy holidays, I’ll see you when I see you.

Finally bit the bullet and made a Bluesky account.

https://bsky.app/profile/gabe-s-art.bsky.social

Not sure exactly how I'll be using it right now, or if I'll even be using it very long, but I'll see where it takes me.

As of this writing, I have two more commissions to finish. After that, I won't be taking an more for the rest of 2024. I can't say for certain when I'll reopen, as there have been a number of shakeups in my personal life that I won't be able to properly address until November, all I can say is that it will be sometime in 2025.

Thanks to everyone who bought something, enjoy the rest of your year.

Commissions are now open for the month of October. As usual:

* Three slots only.
* First come, first server.
* Send all payments, descriptions and refs through Ko-Fi.
* If you bought something in the last set, please allow a 24 hour grace period for those who didn't.

These are the last three I'll be taking for the rest of the year, so once they're finished, I won't be taking any more until January.

I’ll be opening up my usual three commission slots this Tuesday, October 1st. After those are finished, I’ll be taking a break, possibly until January.

Last slot was just taken.

Next slate of three will open in ten days.

First come, first serve. Please send all payment to my Ko-Fi.

Since I finished the slate of three that I already took at the beginning of the month, I decided to open up a few more. Same rules apply:

- First come, first serve.

- Send all payments and descriptions through my Ko-Fi page.

- If you bought something during the last slate, please allow a 24 hour grace period to those who didn't before buying a slot.

September commissions open. As always

- Three slots only.
- First come, first serve.
- Send all payments and details through my Ko-Fi.
- If you bought something last month and there’s a slot available, please allow a 24 hour grace period for those who didn’t to put in an order.

Since I’m finished with my three commission slots from the beginning of the month, I figured I’d open one more for a little extra cash.

Same rules apply: first come first serve, and if you bought something from the last slate, allow a 24 hour grace period for those who didn’t.

If the slot isn’t taken by the end of this month, it won’t roll over into the next. There’ll still only be three slots.

Very sorry to hear about the passing of FA’s owner and primary financier. Though I never knew him personally, I’m forever grateful to him for helping to maintain a place for me and others like me to enjoy, explore and bond over this very particular interest. It’s not a perfect place, no more than any other, but the fact that it’s still being used after nearly twenty years of hacks, server disputes, changes in management and general human discourse tells me he was doing something right. Whatever the future may hold for this site, the furry community wouldn’t have come this far without him.

Thanks, Dragoneer.

All three spots are sold. There'll be three more spots open in September. Thanks to everyone who bought something.

Three commission spots are now open for the month of August. As always:

- All spots are first come, first serve.
- Send all payments and a description of your commission to my Ko-Fi.
- If you bought something last month, please allow a 24 hour grace period for those who didn’t.

Thanks in advance.

Next Thursday, August 1st, at noon EST, three new commission slots will be open for the month. As always, it’s first come, first serve, make all payments through my Ko-Fi and if you bought a commission last month, allow everyone else a short grace period (a day or two, give or take) before asking for a slot.

That was fast.

All three slots for this mont have been taken. I'll re-open in August.