I'm not sure how long I will be around until the moderators come in and blow me up, but I want to let you all know it was fun being on FA. I gathered everything I need before the reapers of FA come to take the Koopa away.

Unfortunately I have no clue what all must be removed by then. I did remove a few pieces that they surely deem as cub, so with that. This is my final days being on here. Whatever happens forward, I will keep on uploading art over on my website free from destruction. If this account is gone tomorrow. I want to let you all know I will continue to improve and hope life says cool for you all.

If you guys want to continue following me, please check out my website and bookmark it. Have fun and stay safe out there!!

Love, KurtKoopa~

I got to thinking and figured out another idea before July 1st comes. Kind of a silly one if you ask me about this. If you guys want, I'll follow you on different galleries as long as you either post up where I can find you. I will still be trying to update a bunch of stuff. At first, I was making a bunch of accounts and realized uploading everything here to over there would take a very long time and it left me a bit uneased about the idea. So I got a silly thought and realized it might be a good idea to post this in the follow-up on my previous journal.

If you by chance have created your own journal about the subject at hand and where to find you, I would love it if you give me a link to it. It can be quite hard jumping around all over the place trying to figure out different systems that work.

In the past, about a couple of years ago. I was banned from FA for a week due to breaking a rule that centralize around "Child Pornography". From that point onward, I was terrified of uploading anything onto the site during my training to improve as an artist, because it more than likely would have broken the same rule again without any kind of heads up or private message about it. Oh, and I'm not gonna point out which drawing it was, because I don't wanna still get banned.

The next thing I hear about is the new policy coming up about a massive ban spree happening after July 1st. Since I feel "Cute" is deemed "Child Pornography." I'm removing all my artwork from FA to counter the new policy being added.

Even worse, I was scared of even favoriting other artists' work because of getting hit by the wagon effect. So to counter such actions coming, all of my work on FA is getting a mass delete this Sunday and you'll never see me upload anything on here until a better system is implemented than punishing artists without giving a fair warning ahead. Like, how am I supposed to fully 100% know this is safe if someone else is posting the same thing? Or even worse, if it's a commission that people want me to post up here? It's basically like getting back into a corner with nowhere to go. Even if I were to go with the "better safe than sorry" would honestly be super annoying for a moderator with probably over one million users to deal with at once because of this. I'm not gonna sit here and draw something that can take up to weeks and "not" be told, "Nope, can't upload that here or there."

If you still want to continue loving my artwork. Please don't just watch me, please bookmark and check out my website. Or better, add me on Discord, or Telegram. I love talking and conversating with anybody if they love my work that much, So yeah, it sucks but it is what it is. Oh, and you're A-okay to talk with me on notes too if you wish. I plan on also giving people the ability to talk on my site if they wish as well.

Edit: I'm gonna keep all SFW on here from now on and will be around here as well. Anything NSFW-related won't be posted up here anymore, unfortunately. Am trying to set preparations and plans. Thank you and sorry about that. ^^

There are a lot of people removing me as a watch on here. I'm curious to say this since I assume most of those are either bots or possibly of other reasons I don't get, but wonder if anyone else is losing watchers on here too?

Other then that, continuing on some art studies of water splashing and playing around with some 3D sorts between Twinmotion and Daz3D so far. XD

Heyo everyone,

I feel I had to make an announcement of this. I feel I'm struggling with doing commissions and requests in my new art process that I just recently learned. Often when working on art, I come to start getting a bit bothered where my Commissioner/Requester begins asking of giant art projects that feel extremely complex with little to small words upon. Some of these projects are unorganized or jumbled of art suggestions to draw with little to no poses involved.

I'm gonna make a better system of organizing this onto my website. This way you guys can have it a bit easier on sorts, but most important. I'm gonna start making ych's that focus on the art poses and sorts that I enjoy, then from there you guys will have the ability to choose what I should make. But more importantly... I plan to use 3D models for the ych system. This way I can focus learning the proportions of your characters art over having to find stuff.

I'm also thinking of removing the art commission sheet that I left on here from 5 years ago and start up something different. I will try to come up with something a bit better for you guys, especially when dealing on art pieces that include way more than 2 characters in a drawing scene which is where I feel it'll help just a bit on my side and break away of the nervous breakdowns I've been having on that sorts.

Dang, I really, really, really, really, really wish I was as good as most of the other artists who are higher up. I still to this day have been taking art pieces out of Narse's work trying to break down the workflow of his. Then I was looking at Draiker's artwork and a part of me realized in coloring that I'm still struggling with understanding making good details. I had just learned about 80% practice and 20% thinking. I'm the complete opposite and do mostly thinking to solve the small sorts to help keep my workflow on things organized so I don't end up having to redo my entire work process, but then I'm struggling with my art tools in the programs I use. So I'm often just left thinking... Man, how in the names did those guys figure that stuff out? Only then to be told it was mostly with experimenting and making messes. Ugh, so I had to make a journal on that area to help get that feeling off of my chest.

So... Need to find a way to change my mindset and start practicing way more than trying to think my way through of things.

The programs I mostly use:

Sprite Illuminator
Photoshop
SAI 2

Have a point where you really want to talk with an artist who you really want to be really good as, but never even get a hello from them? I'm not going to lie on this, but as goofy as it may sound. I am sorry if I done that to anyone during any given point. At times it gets really hard to speak when most conversations are very bland.

However I will still say this, I think what really bothers me at most times is when you really want to speak to someone, but they don't even respond to you with even a hello leaving you confused if either they're available or you could have potential made someone afraid of you. I hope I'm not the only one who at times get that feeling when trying to speak with artists who are way more advanced even compared to myself.

I'm going to aim to get out more content to my website and a few more things here as well. So far mostly been art studying and trying to figure out loads of 3D modeling things before pushing into sorts for my work.

With that out of the way, hope you've been all good out there. Have been thinking of making an announcement part of my website, but I feel it's a lot better to use most of the galleries I have set up first.

Also been messing around with World Creator 2 and a bit of Twinmotion on trying to get custom mountain sets between the two. So far just today finally found some success in that field, so 3D mountain range sorts will be made more possible down the road. ^^

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone has been doing very well today as well as surviving and keeping out of trouble. I'm still here and open for Q&A if there is by chance something you guys wanna ask me?

As for uploads, I have serverly slowed down uploads for the time being to focus on a hand full of art studies. I sadly still struggle a bit on grayscaling properly and depth when it comes to figure anatomy. As well as still learning into clothing too. Other then those, go ahead and ask away.

Also not taking requests or commissions of this moment, wanting to prevent being overloaded for the time being. Thank you! Will mainly still be working on those who have already and until their all done, will resume. ^^;

Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates on anything to be honest. The last time I've created something was all the way back on my birthday. With Halloween rolling up, and a huge amount of projects I've been having to work on left and right. I've been mainly focusing on two things.

The first thing I've been focusing on was a method to create landscapes a little bit easier.

The second thing has been working on my website, which here is the link to. Gotta give big thanks for the help during the creating of the Shimmie2 site, that was not easy. A big reason I have created this website is that I needed a place to store all the work I've been doing in an area all together. Without rather either leaving people disappointed or getting in trouble with stuff.

http://www.kurtkoopa.com/

Either way, I hope you guys have a good Halloween. Hoping to be able to upload better material on the website and the stuff I've been also doing that I won't go into detail about.

To say... Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday toooooo me, happy birthday to me! Ehehe! Can't believe another year has gone that fast.

Alright.

I want to address this out with a possible fix on uploading content on FurAffinity, as well with possibly other galleries around the internet. I was doing some thinking a couple of days ago. Is it possible that you guys could give me heads up if something would be disturbing the rules? If I'm potentially breaking some sort of rule, can someone throw the rule book at my face for a quick review just so I know to send you peeps first the art I'm planning on uploading?

It doesn't have to be all the time, but if something is extremely questionable. Please don't hesitate to throw that book at me. I think it would be extremely awesome to avoid future problems, and potentially protect me and possibly other artists that love to upload content on here?

The reason I'm asking this is that there was an incident a couple of months ago to where I was in serious trouble for a week due to mistakenly uploading content deemed bad for children, and after a bit, it had got me thinking. I should perhaps make a character ban list of those who instantly would conflict with certain rules when it comes to drawing +18 work on here as well with other places, and create a spreadsheet of those deemed dangerous upon uploading. Kind of calling it like, shell protection for artists.

Thank you, and if you're worried on saying something to me on here. You can always send me messages either in notes or either on Discord/Telegram too.

I have a bunch of people on my watch list I suddenly am getting the feeling barely anybody in the 300 watchers are paying any attention to this, and to those who are I just wanna say deeply appreciate you guys and what you guys are doing to help everyone around on FA as well as other medias. It's a big thanks because deep down I know somebody will read this and feel underappreciated, and I just want to say. As long as your helping someone of any sorts, including to some close friends. Keep strong and be happy. ^^;

Been thinking about this for a couple of days and was wondering if my skills have finally lead me enough to give this a shot for some money. I will be opening 3 slots for this, however these slots will cost 70$. This is my plan. For those who love artwork and mostly mine. From the beginning of May and to the end of May. I will draw whatever you want along with short/ small animations.

I am putting my skills to the fullest test. To those who claim these slots. I will personally be under your bidding to draw whatever you three heroic watchers/Artists anything for unlimited time until June begins. Doing this now is a good time, because it allows you takers to have a tone of time to write down all your fantasy's. This even includes an unlimited amount of characters in your piece, saving a huge amount of money in the long run.

Slot 1:  Vigmarr Number of Commissions: 5 so far, 2 sketches done.
Slot 2:  Washimine_Kazunori Number of Commissions: -Still awaiting payment-
Slot 3:  BigNezz Number of Commissions: 9 so far, 0 sketches done.

Edit: I just want to say how deeply thankful I am to you guys for this, and I'll do whatever I can in order for you guys to be pleased with the results for each and every commission you guys send me! Please get your mini-gun and start exploding my Discord/FurAffinity page with idea's left and right. You can give me anything and any kind of number of. This even means making you guys comics left and right.

Man, I cannot believe I haven't made a journal since October.

I've got some good news to say however even though many people who've been talking with me on Discord have probably wondered why there hasn't been a whole lot coming from this Koopa. I had come to a point in life where the job I had was getting way too overwhelming for me to keep up in which I had no choice to withdraw due to way too many struggles going on in my life. Those goods news come in the form of speeding up and slowly getting into animations a bit. Now without my job forcing me to clean the entire building without a break due to lack of time. I'm going to start dedicating into drawing way more than I've been.

Due to a family member ended up passing away in my family, it had pulled me back from doing art for some time until everything had cooled down. Now with everything cooling down and a word of wisdom to help me push forward, I planned to get all my commissions wrapped and finished up. Especially since in the meantime during my away, I've been learning a massive amount of art styles as well with slowly looking into learning animation.

With many art styles out there, I've come across now mastering it since the beginning. My speed had drastically increased and by next week I will be pouring huge amounts of work between all of my galleries I'm on. The only problem I'm starting to lack ideas, an active audience, and now sadly a job to keep the money ends met with promises. I was getting recommended by my family to increase the prices of my artwork to help make it up. So instead of the 10$ of an art piece, it will be 20$ an art piece. There will be more updates on that, however, I planned to not be immediate on it and will be opening doors to commissions pretty soon for 10$ to engage with people who lack funds and wish to get artwork from me, and honestly because of you guys. I'm deeply thankful for all the watches, favorites, and love I have been getting from you guys. I wouldn't have gotten this far if it wasn't for you guys out there!

I also was giving suggestions to make a patreon when making art, comics, short idea writing, and much more. The problem is I have no idea as to where to begin on this idea and didn't feel it was rather smart due to the long wait of stuff as well with lacking an audience to help back that suggestion of this time. In which, I'm in a pickle and in dire need of asking for help in that area since I lack knowledge of everyone's position.

I had planned an idea to help balance this was to start engaging in more communities with my art. Doing this should allow me to make way more art down the road and engage better with people without huge amounts of lack in words. Yet... Doing such had brought a little fear that I might be too engaged, losing the ability to speak more towards through that are close. What are your guy's through and is there another way around this? If everything goes right, there will be a huge amount of work and way more presents for support. ^^

Happy Halloween to everyone and hope your holiday is going very well, hope everyone out there is getting a bunch of treats tonight! Anyways, deeply sorry for the sudden not speaking a whole lot. Of lately I've been consentraiting on Rivals of Aether which is an indie smash game. My friends invited me to go to Youmacon this year in Detroit and wanted me to participate in the tournament. I decided to spend the couple of days training and figuring out moves to improve my gameplay for the tournament. To everyone after it's all done, more work will begin to upload. 

Also, I learned a technique to help with drawing slime better. So... I think I'm aiming to play a little more around in that category for you guys. Anyways wish me luck!

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Hey everyone! Been doing some thinking and I felt it would be a good idea to start leaving more journals rather then being dead silent about. I must ask everyone, any favorite poses you guys have a big heart for? Kind of curious to ask after noticing my Hammer Brother piece I rough sketched had a huge amount of favorites. ^^

I know there's all my watchers favorites, however I'm asking this out of what your guys big top 5 favorites that's been drawn and wish to see more of. This can be general, mature, and adult. I'm really curious to see what you guys love most of which will give me more inspiration for future works of all kinds~ 

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Anybody have any cool artistic techniques when it comes to finalizing there art piece with shading and stuff? Of lately I've been looking around to check out different kinds of technqiues that can improve on art speed when using programs like Photoshop CS6, Paint Tool SAI 1, and 2. As well as any other suggested programs. Thank you!

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I need to find better methods on getting more active. I don't really post a whole lot of stuff, so I'm aiming to fix that issue.

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Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts going on. I ended up getting a new job in which has me working a lot more, physically exhausting me more in which has taken a toll of not only my sleeping schedule but also my time on working of artwork. So far trying to catch up with everything and get used to the new sleep schedule in order to continue to work on stuff. At least now I won't get overly worried about the money system since the new job I got is keeping me up with everything.

Sadly in the process, the store that I was able to sell work mentioned a little bit about at one point ended up firing me over I believe a money issue that ended up happening between the employers when I was running the desk. Due to this, I realized I'll need to find a better method of selling my artwork around town. It was a shame as that was the time I managed to get ahold of my new job to be able and sell my work with more love.

Another update did come onto my journal page. I've noticed a lot of people started asking me for a relationship at one point which almost drove me insane. I've been in enough relationships to know most of them would only hurt the individuals who want to be with me, and well it's embarrassing, it would more likely prevent me from uploading half of my artwork since often times the relationships dominate. Which often demolishes my love to draw due to jealousy taking over, in which I'm not going to have. I've been hurt and hurt others too much and during the hard times, I'm heavily not ready to love. So I placed a message on my FA page saying, "If anyone asks for me to be in a relationship with them. I want you guys to know that I'm not doing that. Relationships only seem to make problems worse and I feel it's actually screwing over a lot of work going through, being best friends is where it is at. If anyone continues to keep on bugging me to go into a relationship with them, I'm rejecting it unless you can afford, and I can afford to see you. Alright? Thank you for your cooperation and please, I do RP's because I love story and getting myself to enjoy what's going on, I love the sexual stuff because it drives me to be an artist with passion and love." This message is literally for mine and your protection to keep a steady amount of artwork being uploaded.

Anyways with the bad news out of the way, I realized my birthday is tomorrow already. Jeez... The thought of it makes me a little worried rather than excited, feels as time is going a bit too fast on this Koopa. Either way... I hate to make a saying like this, but I'm opening artwork gifts for it if anyone has any idea's they like to do.

Okay, I need some help finding who the actual name of this Koopa was. If anyone can help me find it, I would be incredibly grateful for the help because I really need to find who drew this wizard girl troopa. So the only thing I can really do is ask for help on it because so far I've been trying to find out for more than two hours now.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bymc733cs.....Koopa.jpg?dl=0

Hey everyone, sorry for the longtime message without any sudden uploads or updates. Been having to work on a lot of projects after managing to get a job being able to sell artwork and crafts at a local store, which is super awesome. The only problem is that I realized it has prevented me from being able to do a lot of artwork. To make it up, I'm planning on focusing on getting streams online and this time having an active time.

As for my activity, I know that's been a huge problem. It mainly has to do with real-life situations. Of recently with summer now rolling around, I ended up losing my previous college work job and now having to find another job to allow for a steady income. So sometime this July I will be focusing on that, which is sort of why I haven't been able to say as much as I need to. With that, I dedicate this month to become a lot more active without burning myself out in the process.

As for art progress, I'm going to be finishing up the commissions I have marked and re-opening for more commissions this month. There will also be a few funding prices in which would allow people from out of North America to be able and ask for a commission at the same price as a there state is.

And with that being said, how have you all been? I'm deeply sorry if I haven't been talking a whole lot on peoples journals. ^^;

Going to be making some big updates for my website and thinking about making groups dedicated to characters. What do you guys think about it?

I've realized this subject kept on getting brought back up over and over again. I have to ask all of my fellow friends and artist, have there been moments that you were unable to get back with someone? I wanted to bring this topic up out of curiosity towards the professional artist who've been unable to respond back as often in order to keep busy with their work.

If anyone can answer to this, this would heavily help me and possibly the many others who've also been getting either annoyed or often apologizing for it.

Alright, for the first time I decided that after learning how to now officially draw characters properly. I'm willing to ask everyone, what else do you guys want to see in my gallery? Any suggestions next to draw?