Good evening, everyone!

So as some of y'all know, I'm turning over a bit of a new leaf in my personal life. Although I've stuck with the maskedpuppy handle for many years now, since 2009 in fact, it's about time to let the old husk of what I once was be laid to rest.

I'm really excited about the changes and new opportunities I have available to me, and I hope y'all will stick with me in this new era of my life!

Please feel free to reach out with any questions. I aim to be more accessible and more fun to work with from here on out.

Don't worry - I'm still the same me, just with a new face and style to catch up after years of wearing...well...
...a mask.

<3

You can find me over at from now on. You can reach me via the same name at Twitter and Telegram, so feel free to reach out to me there as well! I'll be editing my Picarto account this week, too.

If I previously owed you art, I am NOT trying to escape you. PM me here or on my new account.

I'll keep checking this account until I stop getting new messages, and then I'll mark it closed. Please save all your art that's been posted here, if you haven't already!

https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy
https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy
https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy

Hit me up if you want some stickers!

Single-character: $5/sticker
Character with props: $8/sticker
Two characters (incl. YCH): $10/sticker

Please come keep me company while I draw fuzzies!

https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy
https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy
https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy

SPECIALS TONIGHT: Equines & Ponyplay (together!!), Rope Couples

HOW PWYW WORKS:

You pick 3-5 words and I draw your piece based on that summary! Sorry, anything more specific than that and we'll have to get into official commissions, rather than the PWYW stuff.

The commissions work on a sliding scale based on pose, subject material, complexity of character, etc. So you may pay $30 and get something similar to what another person paid $50 for, but I do as much as I possibly can justify for everybody.

As a general rule:

$5-10 -- Telegram stickers, avatars and headshots, 3 word summary
$15-$30 -- cleaned and colored sketches, 3 word summary
$35-50 -- detailed lining and full color, 5 word summary
$55+ -- detailed pieces with shading, backgrounds, props, etc., 5 word summary
+50% -- add a character

WHAT I NEED FROM YOU:

All you need to do is fill out the form below and post it as a reply to this journal! Once I respond and approve your commission (either in stream chat or here on the journal) you can go ahead and send payment, and once I confirm receipt of payment I'll begin your work (once completing any previously ordered slots, of course).

REFERENCE SHEET(S):
SHORT SUMMARY:
RATING: (nsfw, general, etc)
PRICE PAYING:

OTHER INFO:

Tips are always appreciated, and I will usually do a little something extra for you if you tip me.
"Specials" are when I deem a particular subject/kink to be worth a little bit of a discount (you'll get about an extra thirty minutes to an hour's worth of work than what you paid for!).
If you have something specific you'd like to listen to, just ask! I may or may not play it, but it never hurts to speak up. :)

Finishing up a stickerpack for

https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy
https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy
https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy

Want one? PM me! Stickers go from $5-10 each!

Please come keep me company while I draw fuzzies!

https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy
https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy
https://picarto.tv/maskedpuppy

SPECIALS TONIGHT: Equines & Ponyplay (together!!), Rope Couples

HOW PWYW WORKS:

You pick 3-5 words and I draw your piece based on that summary! Sorry, anything more specific than that and we'll have to get into official commissions, rather than the PWYW stuff.

The commissions work on a sliding scale based on pose, subject material, complexity of character, etc. So you may pay $30 and get something similar to what another person paid $50 for, but I do as much as I possibly can justify for everybody.

As a general rule:

$5-10 -- avatars and headshots, 3 word summary
$15-$30 -- cleaned and colored sketches, 3 word summary
$35-50 -- detailed lining and full color, 5 word summary
$55+ -- detailed pieces with shading, backgrounds, props, etc., 5 word summary
+50% -- add a character

WHAT I NEED FROM YOU:

All you need to do is fill out the form below and post it as a reply to this journal! Once I respond and approve your commission (either in stream chat or here on the journal) you can go ahead and send payment, and once I confirm receipt of payment I'll begin your work (once completing any previously ordered slots, of course).

REFERENCE SHEET(S):
SHORT SUMMARY:
RATING: (nsfw, general, etc)
PRICE PAYING:

OTHER INFO:

Tips are always appreciated, and I will usually do a little something extra for you if you tip me.
"Specials" are when I deem a particular subject/kink to be worth a little bit of a discount (you'll get about an extra thirty minutes to an hour's worth of work than what you paid for!).
If you have something specific you'd like to listen to, just ask! I may or may not play it, but it never hurts to speak up. :)

Is the intuos 5 touch out of date yet? Because mine is scratched all to shit and is giving me a ton of shit lately with weird bugginess and randomly not reading the pen until I unplug and replug it.

Drivers were fine until today when an unrelated issue ate them but I'm annoyed enough to make a post about it now.

Any suggestions?

Posting this again with more detail.

I'm looking to get some more masculine portrayals of Bee to add to my gallery! I'm looking for pretty specific art styles (where men are drawn in a clearly masculine, non 'femboy' manner, but without being grossly muscular or buff) so please don't be offended if I turn your offer down.

I'm willing to match or outdraw anything offered depending on quality and what your prices usually run, so you'll get your fair share of art for the price.

Please post examples if you want to see about trading! I'd like to see samples of what you feel you've drawn that's similar to what I described above. Bonus points if you draw a lot of kink/fetish art, as well. NSFW is fine.

Thanks!

I'm having some really rough times with depression.

I know it's nobody's favorite topic, and I've pretty much exhausted my poor boyfriend with talking about it. I don't want to bring down other friends and I don't really know who is 'safe' to talk to about it anyway.

Sorry, I just really need a friend right now who can't see me cry.

Might not respond if you reply, sorry, I'm just not in a good headspace right now.

Thanks

I will slowly be refunding everyone what I owe them and leaving the art world at least for a year or two.

I don't want to go into detail but some things have happened that have made it really hard for me to enjoy furry art. Bad associations. Hurt feelings. A little bit of trauma, I guess. Nothing big, nothing I won't get over...but I need to take a step back. Not only is drawing not fun anymore, neither is writing. Or watching art be drawn. Or buying art. Or looking at it. Or discussing it.

My life has been nonstop lately. Incredibly busy, with no downtime whatsoever. My responsibilities have raised dramatically. My relationship has needed a lot of bandaids and attention. Transitioning is a nightmare. I am getting an average of 4.25 hours of sleep a night, my stress is at an all-time high, and I find myself working below minimum wage just to get by and pay the bills without hitting the suicidal lows again.

Of course I'll still be on IRC. I'll be around here every so often checking in on people. Might buy some art again, may even start drawing again, I don't know. I just can't stand having the obligations hanging over my head.

It's gonna take time for me to pay everyone back so please be patient, but I want to write everything off the books and get the slate clean so I can move on with my life.

Thanks.

I'm tired.

This thought recurs a thousand times a day. I'm sick with it. It chokes me when I want a sip of water, stifles me when I need a deep breath, stabs me when I fall into the embrace of a loved one.

Nothing feels good anymore. I can appreciate things, same as I always did. The taste of my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe hasn't changed. The beauty of a Texas sunrise is still just as breathtaking.

But behind every smile, every moment of bliss, there is a vast, gaping exhaustion threatening to take over. And when the bright moments have passed, I fall back into it, and the honesty I feel in allowing myself to take on the weight of my disguise once more is almost a relief despite the pain it brings forth.

I've tried everything to shake it for good.

I thought perhaps my weight or physical appearance may be the culprit, so I stopped eating. I lost weight, but I didn't feel better; as the rolls disappeared and the curves began to stand out, I felt like a piece of marble being chipped away with hammer and chisel. The beauty of any change is lost on the material used to create it; a chunk of marble does not know it's becoming art, only that pieces of it are falling away, lost forever to the idealistic vision of somebody else.

I embraced and fetishized my body, even going so far as to throw myself into communities and kinks that specifically made use of the parts of my body I loathed. I modified my breasts with piercings, accentuated them with pretty bras, framed them with rope and clamps - and still they feel ugly, detached, like tumors or skin tags. A part of me, but not one that I want or accept, the way I feel about my arms and legs and nose.

I dressed the part I acted. Dresses, cute underwear, expensive bras - one for every day of the week. Loving, kind friends and family routinely mistake my dysphoria for a lack of self-confidence, and a part of me dies every time I hear what a beautiful woman I am, even as I thank them with real tears for the compliment. So many well-meaning people have struggled in earnest to impress upon me that I'm pretty, and cute, and attractive, and feminine. And I appreciate every one of them. But it isn't the former part of "beautiful woman" that bothers me. It's the latter.

I grew my hair out. Last week it was long enough to tie up in a bun, or braid, or do anything else with. It looked good on my feminine body, framing my feminine face, with long waves that I could straighten, condition, style, and fluff to accentuate my feminine outfit of the day. But I ended up putting it in a ponytail most of the time. I've spent countless hours in the bathroom with a pair of scissors clutched in one hand and a paper towel in the other, blotting furiously at my frustrated tears. That hairstyle looked good on a woman, on my body, but it is not me.

I am not a woman.

Accepting my birth assignment as part of me and trying to equalize it didn't work; the darkness just swallowed up all the light.

I'm a guy.

I've been openly genderfluid forever. Most people nod and smile blankly when I explain or try to discuss my gender with them; they think "she's just one of those people who wants to be a special snowflake" and tune it out. Some go so far as to insist that they see who I really am inside, and that they know I'm actually a woman. Still more have outright shrugged it off and said "You'll always be a girl to me."

My heart breaks each time I hear that, knowing that I can never, will never, trust those people with who I really am or they will rid themselves of me.

Friends, family, loved ones, partners - I've had perhaps half a dozen people in my life who truly understand and accept me for me, and who will listen and support me when I'm struggling with dysphoria in the worst way. Over the past couple of weeks I've fought with myself to bring it up to a few friends and even one family member.

Heartbreakingly, the major response has been "well, if you have to, then okay, I support you". The reluctance and thinly veiled horror behind their reactions is not lost on me. I am disappointing people that I love. I am not living up to their expectations. And that kills me.

I know this is not what anyone would choose me to be. I certainly wouldn't choose it. I would like to be cisgender; if I could love my body for its full potential and be content as a woman, I would. I wish this was a choice that I could choose not to make.

But I am down to only two real options; either I must make the messy incisions and disappoint a bunch of people whose opinions and love I value highly, in order to live free of the shackles that I've been saddled with since birth...

Or I stay in them indefinitely. I keep lying to maintain the love of those I care for, letting them believe that what they choose to see and accept of me is all there is to worry about. I continue to gag down the feminine epithets my friends and admirers in the community kindly shower me with. I force a smile when someone calls me a good girl, and pretend that I don't wish I could be somebody's good boy.

I don't know what the right option is. I am what I am, and that isn't going to change, as I've proven to myself over the past 6 years of being openly genderfluid and struggling with it. It's not enough. I need to present as male.

It's terrifying. I feel broken, ashamed, lonely, and confused. Why do I have to be this way? We can quantify the chemical fuckups in my head that give me dyscalculia, depression, and ADHD. Hell, those are acceptable things to struggle with on a daily basis. Why can't we quantify the fuckups that make me loathe every aspect of being female in favor of being a male?

But I have to at least try to change that. It's going to be painful. I'm going to have screaming matches with my mother, and my father is going to cry. My boyfriend is going to have to back me up to his family when they talk about me behind my back, and once again deal with the pains of being put in a M/m relationship. He'll struggle to to help me recover if - when - I eventually get top surgery, and help me take the financial hit of paying for it. My sister will never get to braid my hair again, even though I promised her she could. My mom will never go wedding dress shopping with me or put my hair up in that special traditional way the wives in our family always have. My friends will stumble over pronouns.

I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry. I hate this. I don't want to have to do this. Not to all of you who care, or think you care, or want to care about me. Not to my family. Not to myself.

But I'm out of options if I want to be happy and honest.

So I'm leaving your lives as a woman. That part of who you know me as is gone. Dead. Buried.

I hope you can all learn to love the boy that eventually comes back to fill my place in your lives and hearts.




But I won't hold it against you if you can't.

https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy
https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy
https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy

nsfw content may apply

SLOTS
DONE
DONE
DONE
DONE

icons

Trying something a little different this time to avoid overload.

https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy
https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy
https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy

$5 gets you a colored icon.

$15 minimum for NSFW stuff.

$20 full-body colored sketches.

Double the total to add a character.

Pay more, get more. Easy peasy.

Specials
All of the below topics cost $15 for a full body colored sketch, so they're $5 off!

Puppy Play
Breeding/Impregnation
Spanking (2 Characters Only!)

Want a slot?
Fill out this form:

References:
Sfw/Nsfw:
3-word description (if a special, one of these words is already used up. Please specify which):
How much you're paying:

I will respond if you're approved and then you can send payment so I can start!

SLOTS

DONE
DONE

Trying something a little different this time to avoid overload.
Stream will be TOMORROW, 9/1, starting at 6pm CST.

https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy
https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy
https://furstre.am/stream/maskedpuppy

$5 gets you a colored icon.

$15 minimum for NSFW stuff.

$20 full-body colored sketches.

Double the total to add a character.

Pay more, get more. Easy peasy.

Specials
All of the below topics cost $15 for a full body colored sketch, so they're $5 off!

Puppy Play
Breeding/Impregnation
Spanking (2 Characters Only!)

Want a slot?
Fill out this form:

References:
Sfw/Nsfw:
3-word description (if a special, one of these words is already used up. Please specify which):
How much you're paying:

I will respond if you're approved and then you can send payment so I can start!

SLOTS


open
open
open

Note me for details - I can get you a job as long as you live in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Wyoming.

It's a work-from-home call center position where you do technical support for a national ISP. It's incredibly easy - basically all you need to be able to do is type, talk on the phone, and do database searches. Super simple. There's 2 weeks of paid training before you go on the clock so you don't need experience. This is an awesome first job opportunity.

Some details:

$10/hour starting salary with quarterly $.25 raises if good performance.

Full time employees get paid vacation time - up to 60 hours per year iirc.

Full time employees also get benefits if you want to enroll (I didn't, I'm still on my parents health insurance, so I don't know the exact details of this).

Hours are fluid; you can work morning shifts, evening shifts, or overnight shifts depending on your preference.

Let me know if you need more info. My company needs to hire ~1200 new employees pronto for a massive expansion, so I get a referral bonus if you get hired which means this is a win-win situation. Hit me up.

I haven't disappeared, I promise. My cat disappeared and my grandpop died (exactly 80 days after my grandmom passed away) and I'm struggling with a lot of things.

Thank you for your patience. Everyone's work will get done.

Hi guys!

No, I am not leaving FA, jumping ship, etc. Comments relating to the current site changes and ownership status will be deleted from this journal because I'm not interested in it and it's irrelevant. Thanks for understanding.

I'm taking some time to work solely on owed stuff, personal art, and long-term projects I haven't had time to even start let alone complete. I'll still be around, but I'm only going to be streaming for owed commissions and other projects - I won't be doing any more PWYW streams or taking any commissions at all for quite some time. Any art not mentioned below that you see popping up between already owed stuff is probably a gift or an experimental piece to test out a new method of drawing.

This page is definitely going to be active, so don't worry - I'm not dropping off the face of the earth! I just won't be taking on new commissions or doing PWYW streams. Instead I'll be posting lots of art and doing lots of streaming for owed commissions! I'm taking an extra day off work every week, which will be dedicated solely to making this happen, so please stick around. Hopefully things will be more consistent now!

I'm hoping to at least have my commissions and refunds knocked out by the end of May, and hopefully the older trades I have sitting around will be done by June/July. We're moving this summer to get a bit closer to carrotwolf's new job which is actually an hour and a half away from our current home. I'd like to aim for having most if not all of my queue knocked out by my birthday in August, but we'll see how that goes.

I'm copying and pasting my queue from my profile for easy viewing. As always, commissions take precedent, then trades. Refunds are considered priority, but moving expenses are going to mean they may be paid back piecemeal.

If you believe you should be on this list, and don't see your name, please email me at maskedpuppy[at]yahoo.com with any relevant details. DO NOT try to note me; I have notes disabled.

Thanks!

commissions
obreeonwolf - paid, lining
reference sheet
dumbpup - paid, not yet started
private painting
2-character colored sketch
tempestkitty - paid, not yet started
5 mood icons
rithzarian - paid $50, not yet started
undecided, may refund

trades
taernost ref sheet, sketching
mazz donation sketch
krank donation sketch
crystalkat180 prismacolor $15

misc owed
taernost moving van expenses
catldr24 100
kacifox 100

So my mom just told me yesterday that she got rid of my $300ish collection of original Hasbro MLP figures, some of which were original in mint condition, some of which I painstakingly restored on my own, some of which I bought or traded for as custom one-of-a-kind pieces of art.

My mom let my cousin's little daughter pick out a few to keep (I don't know which ones and won't be asking for them back, that'd be incredibly unkind) and donated the rest to Goodwill. I can only hope that they find loving homes, either with another collector or with a child who will love them as much as I did, or even more.

I'm a sad puppy. Some of them I'd had since I was a kid, some were given to me by friends I'll never see again, and almost all of them had HUGE sentimental value to me. I don't talk about my pony collecting much because of the FiM craze over the past few years and the way people get so loud and rabid over it - but this is a bit of a big deal and even though I've been trying to shrug it off...I'm failing. :( Those ponies were the last bit of my childhood, in a way. I keep thinking about it and wanting to throw up or cry a little bit.

So, if anyone wants to help me start rebuilding my collection from scratch, that'd be awesome. I will trade for art. Here's what I'm looking for:

G1 and G3 ponies only! If you bought yours at a store over the past 2 or 3 years, I do not want it.
Unicorns of all poses
Pegasus ponies of all poses
Any G1 earth ponies WITHOUT molding
Big Brothers
Twinkle Eyes
Bait (in batches, in paintable condition)
Any of the custom, OOAK ponies featured on this list.

I will be consulting this site for values, so please don't think I'm undercutting you if you're offering me your childhood toy with lots of sentimental value and I only am willing to give you a sketch or icon for it. Condition will definitely matter to me, but I don't need them to be in pristine or mint condition, just displayable.

If you have any friends who collect, please share this journal with them! ;_; I miss my ponies and I'm very sad I wasn't able to pay to have them shipped to me before mom got rid of 'em. (Not her fault, she had no idea of their value to me or in general.) Thanks for reading!

If you believe that using Patreon, YCH, etc. to make more money, market one's art, or take advantage of undecisive or non-artistic commissioners makes an artist somehow less authentic, less trustworthy, or undeserving of his or her business, you are wrong.

Let's talk about YCH first. A lot of commissioners struggle to come up with ideas/poses they like, and prefer to wait for a sketch to be proposed to them before committing to the commission. It's a way to appeal directly to non-artistic art enthusiasts who don't know what they want or who aren't comfortable pitching ideas to the artist in question.

For instance, say Commissioner X really likes Artist A's work, but just can't think of anything in specific they really want. They feel too shy to ask A for artistic license, or they aren't sure that A's artistic creativity would produce something they're 100% happy with - and of course it's rude to ask for a sketch before you pay, since that's against A's (and most artists') policy!

So X is just doodling along checking through his submissions one day when he sees that A put up a really cute sketch that he could absolutely see his favorite character in! He clicks on it excitedly but it's a commission sketch for someone else; now he can't ask for the same pose without looking like a copycat or risking the artist's integrity as a lot of people view that as pure laziness on the artist's behalf.

With YCH pieces, commissioners like X get a chance to see what they're getting BEFORE they even stick a hand up and say they're interested. This is why they're so popular. You're paying a bit extra to compensate the artist for their time and creativity because you do not have those skills (or yours are not on par with theirs).

As with any other service, you are paying the artist to do something you cannot. If you feel your artistic creativity is better or you have a specific pose/scene in mind, then you pay a bit less for the artist to not have to come up with something on their own for you.

This leads us into Patreon. A lot of people think Patreon is somehow unfair, that because the art is already being produced, the public is entitled to view it for free. First of all, no; get your entitled asses in line - art takes work; hours upon hours of work not only in production but in practice, in experimentation, in learning new tools and programs and not least of all HUGE expenses in paying for tablets and computers capable of running art programs.

The average person whining, "But art should be available for FREE! Charging for it is just so soulless!" has no idea what goes into an average artists's production. Let's say they've been drawing for 4 years professionally. Over those 4 years that artist had to buy probably 2 tablets at around $150 each (figuring conservatively for high-end, long-lasting digital tablets with 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity - NOT the cintiqs that cost THOUSANDS or the Intuos 'standard' tablets that cost between $300-$500). Pen nibs cost around $10 a box and last maybe 6-10 months if you draw frequently. Then there's a good, sturdy worktable which can be around $50 if you find one at a thrift store you like or buy one from Walmart. Plus a $1200 or so computer that can run all the basics like Photoshop, Paint Tool SAI, and OBS (for livestreams!).

That's on the low scale for most of the artists who are using Patreon - these guys are often using the big Cintiq display tablets and pay $15 a month ($180 per year) for Photoshop. Plus there's all kinds of brush packs, art classes/workgroups, and webinars you need in order to keep up with the technology in question. So we're already at around $2k after tax on the low end for an artist's yearly costs in order to produce the quality of artwork that commissioners so frequently take for granted as just being "talent" or "luck".

Now let's look at what enables artists to produce the quantity of work that people expect. Newsflash: most of them cannot live off of their art wages, because of the deflation of the dollar as it relates to furry art. In the graphic design world, 8 hours' worth of drawing time is worth approximately $1200. In the furry world, an artist might be lucky to get $100 for a piece of the same quality.

However, despite the community's lack of support, these artists still need to pay bills and feed themselves. Most of us work full time jobs and do art on the side, or live with spouses/family that supplement our art wages to keep us from starving to death.

Check out my monthly budget:
Rent: $450/month
Power: $60/month
Internet: $50/month
Food: $100/month
Pet expenses: ~$150/month (food, toys, medication, and various grooming/vet costs)
Total: $810

Keep in mind that the first four things are split either two or three ways because I live with two other people. I'd be paying even MORE if I lived alone.

These numbers regularly go up for various things, like extreme heat or extreme cold, one of my animals getting sick or needing other vet care, and includes NOTHING as far as entertainment goes at all. Keep in mind I don't have half the expenses that most people do - no kids, no mortgage, no car, no insurance.

I make approximately $35 per commission. One $35 commission would take me approximately 4 hours to complete, which means I'm just barely making minimum wage for my state at $8.75/hour. That means I would need to be making and completing at least 23 commissions at $35 per commission in order to cover JUST my living expenses...figuring in absolutely nothing for entertainment, social activity, romantic outings with carrotwolf, or random expenses like birthday gifts or even buying art for myself.

So the average artist is hardly making enough to survive off his or her art. Patreon provides a way for them to produce art on their own schedules, allowing them to work full-time and provide themselves and their families with a comfortable, healthy lifestyle.

"But I should be able to view their art for free," many people complain. "It's not art if it's pay-per-view! That's not what art is about! I shouldn't have to pay in order to look at something that already exists, that isn't my personal character, and it's just taking advantage of fans!"

Well, unfortunately, you're not entitled to a single goddamn thing.

I've even heard people make the argument that "patreon art is taking advantage of people's sex drives and desires". The fact of the matter, is there is PLENTY of erotic and non-erotic art available to satisfy anybody. Hell, every minute someone uploads something new to FA - go refresh the front page a few times!

But when you're not compensating anybody for their work, you do not get to make demands or claims to entitlement. When you pay for Patreon artists, you are paying to support an artist that you particularly enjoy seeing work from to continue creating art. If an artist produces 25% of their art for free and the other 75% is pay-to-view, they are already providing 25% of their content for free...which often means they're doing hours' worth of hard work completely for free to provide YOU with the art that you enjoy for about two minutes before moving on to the next picture.

How exactly is this unfair to the average commissioner/art-appreciator, again?

I guess the point I'm trying to make with this long-winded, irritated journal is that while it's fun and rewarding in other ways to provide the community with free and cheap art, it's really not a successful business model or something that we can make a living off of doing. By getting self-righteous and angry about artists who raise their prices to minimum wage or above, or take advantage of the pay-to-view models available through Patreon and Kickstarter, you are making yourself out to be a self-entitled, pretentious asshat who really deserves none of the art you're demanding to see.

And if your argument boils down to "Well, I want it and can't pay for it and that's not fair", guess what - that's how we artists feel every day when we want to go out for a nice dinner, go to the movies, attend an event, travel to visit family and friends, or go to college/university. The only way you can get what you want is to work for it. Get a job and stop demanding special treatment from the furry community.

We've given you more than enough for free.

Would anyone be interested in a custom coloring book?

By custom, I mean that pages would be sold for custom artwork featuring your characters, as well as group blocks (basically some custom, some YCH) which would then be sold online and at cons.

Might offer completely custom ones eventually once I no longer have a queue.

This is just a theory right now, but TFF coming up (which I won't be at, sadly :( ) I was thinking about what projects I could work on this year to sell at TFF 2016.

Comment if you'd be interested :o

Things have been pretty rough. Been working 10 hour days on average and spending the rest of my time dealing with our foster puppy and handling family stuff. I haven't drawn in 3 weeks which really kind of sucks.

I'm gonna do my best to get things cleared up this week and get back on schedule. To those of you I owe art to, I'm very sorry.

Reminder: my notes are disabled because I hate the note system. Email me for updates or with questions, please. maskedpuppy[at]yahoo.com