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talking about life, possibly trying to make art a career
Posted a day agoI've had something on my mind a lot lately. I've been debating weather or not about I should fully commit to making adult artwork, like as in trying to make a living out of it and I wanted to talk about it.
So let me tell y'all about how things have been in my IRL life, Frankly they've been pretty bad. Around the beginning of may my bus driving job ended (it was a seasonal thing). I tried to work for a limo company after that but that only lasted 3 days, I waited a whole two stinkin' months to start with those guys *my thoughts towards them are much fouler* That job very nearly put me out on the street if not for an inheritance that came my way. Which is how I've been surviving the past several months, I have been trying to find regular work since then but in that interim but the two temp to hire jobs I've had have only lasted one day, the first time being the result of a decision far above me and the second due the fact that I was lied to about the nature of the position and them let go for "not being very happy there" *eye twitch*.
I had to put that backdrop out there first for context as I talk about the rest of what's on my mind. I have been toying with the idea of getting a class A CDL and trying to get work from that but it's EXPENSIVE!!! And I'm not sure if its a good life decision or not.
so a major question that's been on my mind is "what should I do next?" I've always wanted to draw for a living and I recently got a client who was a joy to work with. It was my first commission in a very long time and the first one that was entirely over the internet. I have admittedly been thinking to myself "was this a fluke?" but it was still exciting to have someone commission me and It taught me a lot and I hope they commission me again in the future.
Still what's noteworthy to me about is how quickly I went from drawing adult art to getting paid to draw it. I did have to take a few years to functionally re-learn how to draw, I'd say that took me about two years and I started drawing adult art I believe sometime in 2022. At the time I had the thought adult art might possibly be a way to make some cash off of drawing but at that point I didn't actually know if that was the case or not. It took me a little longer to find the audience for the art. Last year here on fur affinity I basically started by just posting a big art dump of all of my artwork and my adult work, at least according to the number of favorites I've gotten is all for my adult work. I should also point out here that I was drawing ABDL adult artwork partially because I believed at the time and still believe its an art market that's under-served. I'd say my stuff definitely leans more toward the DL side of things but I'd be happy to indulge some of the AB stuff occasionally. I've actually had a character study idea bouncing around in my head that might work as comic (no guarantees tho)
Like if you follow me I'm willing to bet you also at least know about fetimation, paddedulf, vlue, and poofybuttrock. Basically what I'm saying is that it's relatively small group of artists that draw ABDL art in the first place. Speaking of fet, I have watched fet carve out a career for himself in this space and I saw that it was no easy feat either. It seems like drawing adult work of any kind is like running a hotel on top of a valcano, with how patreon-likes and payment processors freak out about our naughty little images. Still given how drawing the naughties actually fits my dream job description I'm starting to think I should 100% pursue it.
My dream job requirements are basically I can work from anywhere, in this case privately...i spend half my life in coffee shops, so i'd have to work around that. being able to set my own hours which for me would look very strange to a normal employer. basically a two part day. I draw for a living, hell it's why my degree's in 'digital animation and game design' in the first place*i'll rant about that some other time*
lastly I do want to talk about one of my apprehensions around drawing the naughties and at this point I think it's a tension I'm simply going to have to live with. I have no problem drawing adult images but it's not my favorite thing to draw, my favorite things to draw being weird robots, wacky monsters and videogame fanart, that kind of thing; I never want to stop drawing those things. I'm also someone who REALLY and I mean REALLY likes sharing their artwork and it's admittedly kind of hard to do that with the adult artwork. It's also why you keep seeing me upload non-ABDL/naughty artwork. Like right now I have an other fanart of hornet that I just finished inking that I'm already really excited about sharing with y'all. It's funny because I really do think making adult work to a particular taste is an art career track worth pursuing but also let me draw my weird monsters too ^^;
anyway thanks for reading my rant. if nothing else it helps me get my thoughts down and get them organized. I do know that in terms of adult art I've actually been itching to draw some cum fetish stuff but yeah I do legitimately think i found a niche that I might be able to pursue as a potential art career. Also it might mean finally becoming an animator too, I friggin' grew up on cartoons and i wanna make cartoons gum damn it! If the only way I become a cartoonist is to be a NSFW cartoonist so be it I guess.
btw feel free to comment as I do like having dialogue, I know I've been expressing some frustration at life in this journal post but I've been wanting to get these brain waves down somewhere where dialogue can at least potentially happen.
So let me tell y'all about how things have been in my IRL life, Frankly they've been pretty bad. Around the beginning of may my bus driving job ended (it was a seasonal thing). I tried to work for a limo company after that but that only lasted 3 days, I waited a whole two stinkin' months to start with those guys *my thoughts towards them are much fouler* That job very nearly put me out on the street if not for an inheritance that came my way. Which is how I've been surviving the past several months, I have been trying to find regular work since then but in that interim but the two temp to hire jobs I've had have only lasted one day, the first time being the result of a decision far above me and the second due the fact that I was lied to about the nature of the position and them let go for "not being very happy there" *eye twitch*.
I had to put that backdrop out there first for context as I talk about the rest of what's on my mind. I have been toying with the idea of getting a class A CDL and trying to get work from that but it's EXPENSIVE!!! And I'm not sure if its a good life decision or not.
so a major question that's been on my mind is "what should I do next?" I've always wanted to draw for a living and I recently got a client who was a joy to work with. It was my first commission in a very long time and the first one that was entirely over the internet. I have admittedly been thinking to myself "was this a fluke?" but it was still exciting to have someone commission me and It taught me a lot and I hope they commission me again in the future.
Still what's noteworthy to me about is how quickly I went from drawing adult art to getting paid to draw it. I did have to take a few years to functionally re-learn how to draw, I'd say that took me about two years and I started drawing adult art I believe sometime in 2022. At the time I had the thought adult art might possibly be a way to make some cash off of drawing but at that point I didn't actually know if that was the case or not. It took me a little longer to find the audience for the art. Last year here on fur affinity I basically started by just posting a big art dump of all of my artwork and my adult work, at least according to the number of favorites I've gotten is all for my adult work. I should also point out here that I was drawing ABDL adult artwork partially because I believed at the time and still believe its an art market that's under-served. I'd say my stuff definitely leans more toward the DL side of things but I'd be happy to indulge some of the AB stuff occasionally. I've actually had a character study idea bouncing around in my head that might work as comic (no guarantees tho)
Like if you follow me I'm willing to bet you also at least know about fetimation, paddedulf, vlue, and poofybuttrock. Basically what I'm saying is that it's relatively small group of artists that draw ABDL art in the first place. Speaking of fet, I have watched fet carve out a career for himself in this space and I saw that it was no easy feat either. It seems like drawing adult work of any kind is like running a hotel on top of a valcano, with how patreon-likes and payment processors freak out about our naughty little images. Still given how drawing the naughties actually fits my dream job description I'm starting to think I should 100% pursue it.
My dream job requirements are basically I can work from anywhere, in this case privately...i spend half my life in coffee shops, so i'd have to work around that. being able to set my own hours which for me would look very strange to a normal employer. basically a two part day. I draw for a living, hell it's why my degree's in 'digital animation and game design' in the first place*i'll rant about that some other time*
lastly I do want to talk about one of my apprehensions around drawing the naughties and at this point I think it's a tension I'm simply going to have to live with. I have no problem drawing adult images but it's not my favorite thing to draw, my favorite things to draw being weird robots, wacky monsters and videogame fanart, that kind of thing; I never want to stop drawing those things. I'm also someone who REALLY and I mean REALLY likes sharing their artwork and it's admittedly kind of hard to do that with the adult artwork. It's also why you keep seeing me upload non-ABDL/naughty artwork. Like right now I have an other fanart of hornet that I just finished inking that I'm already really excited about sharing with y'all. It's funny because I really do think making adult work to a particular taste is an art career track worth pursuing but also let me draw my weird monsters too ^^;
anyway thanks for reading my rant. if nothing else it helps me get my thoughts down and get them organized. I do know that in terms of adult art I've actually been itching to draw some cum fetish stuff but yeah I do legitimately think i found a niche that I might be able to pursue as a potential art career. Also it might mean finally becoming an animator too, I friggin' grew up on cartoons and i wanna make cartoons gum damn it! If the only way I become a cartoonist is to be a NSFW cartoonist so be it I guess.
btw feel free to comment as I do like having dialogue, I know I've been expressing some frustration at life in this journal post but I've been wanting to get these brain waves down somewhere where dialogue can at least potentially happen.
i think it's been one year since i started my FA acct
Posted a month agoI think this month's the one year anniversary of starting my FA acct. I gotta say out of all the art platforms i'm on, my deviant art being my main platform. This one honestly feels the most human. I am planning on working on a bunch of ABDL adult content since that's what my stats tell me is most popular and my upload queue ran out (it was accidental). I've got a couple of DL fan art ideas and I have an idea for a ABDL comic that I want to make 2 or 3 pages for. I'm still looking for work in my normal IRL life so that takes priority but I've been itchin to draw some ABDL content lately
starting commissions and correcting a fuck up, i think
Posted 2 months agoI do want your input on this journal ^^, pretty please
starting commisions
ok so I'm admittedly throwing a bunch of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks as far as trying to make a career of my artwork so I think I'll be posting a very simple commission sheet here pretty much immediately after posting this. I've noticed that on here it's my nsfw diaper kink stuff that gets the attention and I'm assuming if someone here of fur affinity commissions me for something I'm guessing that it'll be that. Despite having been drawing for a very long time I haven't really done art commissions, its funny because it seems like an artist staple. Feels like I need to correct that. I am curious about some things y'all might be interested in commissioning if money were no object.
i think i might a fucked up, not 100% sure tho
speaking of nsfw and kink I think I may have fucked something up with out really realizing it, granted I haven't actually haven't been on fur affinity all that long even if I've known about the site since, like 2006. and I think that I haven't properly put all of the usual warnings and clarifications about who this account if for and Admittedly I myself didn't really know either. so I know I need to make something implicit, explicitly stated, I've seen a lot of FF artists use the top bar to do that so I think I'll be following suit.
It was kind of a fluke that I just happened to upload all of my nsfw kinky diaper art stuff and that's what took off. I actually had someone discover me over on my deviant art page and find me over here too and I'm afraid I might have scared them away even tho I did say my fur affinity was my nsfw account, I guess I should specify I also draw the DL side of abdl stuff here. I hope not since I like their art as well and I really don't like scaring people off. I actually started drawing nsfw stuff in hopes of maybe monetizing it somehow, that was the original motivation anyway. I have said in a few places that I have a love hate relationship with drawing it. Mainly because my favorite things to draw are actually weird monsters and cyborg robots and stuff. Think if it looks like it belongs in an olde mascot platformer I probably want to draw that.
that does leave me with a question for y'all. Should I keep posting my sfw stuff here too or should I just go all in on the NSFW kinky stuff? including the SFW stuff means more frequent uploads but less focused but only uploading NSFW stuff means fewer uploads but more focused account. I don't intend to stop drawing nfsw stuff despite my relationship to nsfw art being a bit love hate.
starting commisions
ok so I'm admittedly throwing a bunch of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks as far as trying to make a career of my artwork so I think I'll be posting a very simple commission sheet here pretty much immediately after posting this. I've noticed that on here it's my nsfw diaper kink stuff that gets the attention and I'm assuming if someone here of fur affinity commissions me for something I'm guessing that it'll be that. Despite having been drawing for a very long time I haven't really done art commissions, its funny because it seems like an artist staple. Feels like I need to correct that. I am curious about some things y'all might be interested in commissioning if money were no object.
i think i might a fucked up, not 100% sure tho
speaking of nsfw and kink I think I may have fucked something up with out really realizing it, granted I haven't actually haven't been on fur affinity all that long even if I've known about the site since, like 2006. and I think that I haven't properly put all of the usual warnings and clarifications about who this account if for and Admittedly I myself didn't really know either. so I know I need to make something implicit, explicitly stated, I've seen a lot of FF artists use the top bar to do that so I think I'll be following suit.
It was kind of a fluke that I just happened to upload all of my nsfw kinky diaper art stuff and that's what took off. I actually had someone discover me over on my deviant art page and find me over here too and I'm afraid I might have scared them away even tho I did say my fur affinity was my nsfw account, I guess I should specify I also draw the DL side of abdl stuff here. I hope not since I like their art as well and I really don't like scaring people off. I actually started drawing nsfw stuff in hopes of maybe monetizing it somehow, that was the original motivation anyway. I have said in a few places that I have a love hate relationship with drawing it. Mainly because my favorite things to draw are actually weird monsters and cyborg robots and stuff. Think if it looks like it belongs in an olde mascot platformer I probably want to draw that.
that does leave me with a question for y'all. Should I keep posting my sfw stuff here too or should I just go all in on the NSFW kinky stuff? including the SFW stuff means more frequent uploads but less focused but only uploading NSFW stuff means fewer uploads but more focused account. I don't intend to stop drawing nfsw stuff despite my relationship to nsfw art being a bit love hate.
just a little heads up
Posted 3 months agoI won't be uploading for the rest of july 2025, I will still be working on art and everything but I just want to rebuild my backlog of things to upload.
Reason being is i had a bit of a vacation recently, i was visiting my folks back in my olde hometown in the midwestern region of hamburgerlandia aka the usa and I took the train, round trip. I did think I'd be able to work on at least some artwork during my time on the train/with my folks, but fate wasn't having it.
Also in my IRL life I also need to focus on finding myself an other job, look into how the F I can leave the land of the hamburger, I have my reasons. and whole bunch of other adulting stuff. But rest assured I am planning on working hard to pump out a bunch more artwork. I do still feel like I need to produce some more NSFW stuff for everyone here on FurAffinity, Just keep in mind my NSFW stuff is probably going to get tamer for the next little while. Sometimes I wonder if my HRT meds are turning me ace cuz like, that seems to be whats happening TBH.
anyway I did want to give y'all an update about what my plans are
Reason being is i had a bit of a vacation recently, i was visiting my folks back in my olde hometown in the midwestern region of hamburgerlandia aka the usa and I took the train, round trip. I did think I'd be able to work on at least some artwork during my time on the train/with my folks, but fate wasn't having it.
Also in my IRL life I also need to focus on finding myself an other job, look into how the F I can leave the land of the hamburger, I have my reasons. and whole bunch of other adulting stuff. But rest assured I am planning on working hard to pump out a bunch more artwork. I do still feel like I need to produce some more NSFW stuff for everyone here on FurAffinity, Just keep in mind my NSFW stuff is probably going to get tamer for the next little while. Sometimes I wonder if my HRT meds are turning me ace cuz like, that seems to be whats happening TBH.
anyway I did want to give y'all an update about what my plans are
what i'm thinkin' for my FA acct (18 plus talk)
Posted 10 months agoHonestly right at the moment I'm in a fairly talkative mood today. I also posted a blog over on my Newgrounds account about some of my thoughts around what to do on that site artisitcally. I got this account properly up and running just a few months ago and when i decided to upload my backlog I sort of inadvertently uploaded all of my 18 plus art up all at once and to my pleasant surprise that's the stuff that was getting the most traction. Kinda like I finally found my audience for my kink art. It does make me wish that I could change the name of my account to awhorewhodraws, which is the handle I always use on my adult artwork instead of my usual strwbrryJen handle. Still It's making me think that going forward FA should be the place for my adult artwork, like that should be the focus, the 18 plus diaper kink stuff. Since I already use deviant art as my main art account I can keep posting my regular artwork over there and this account for the spicy stuff. ditto for my itaku page.
speaking of spicy stuff, I'm unsure of what you guys would want to see more of so please leave comments either here or on my other works, is this fishing for engagement? sure but I really do need some feedback about what you guys want to see from me. I'm aware that I tend to flip flop on weather or not I should make kink art but i think now at the end of the day I AM going to continue with making the horny art but it wont be my main thing since I can't really draw it out in public, at least easily anyway. As of right now I have about 4 18 plus art pieces in my wip queue, only one of them is overtlyu diaper oriented right now but i'm also doing a bit of exploring here for what i want to draw too.
ok I'm starting to ramble at this point. Anyway, I'm learning to not be quite so embarrassed about my diaper kink. diapers for life.
speaking of spicy stuff, I'm unsure of what you guys would want to see more of so please leave comments either here or on my other works, is this fishing for engagement? sure but I really do need some feedback about what you guys want to see from me. I'm aware that I tend to flip flop on weather or not I should make kink art but i think now at the end of the day I AM going to continue with making the horny art but it wont be my main thing since I can't really draw it out in public, at least easily anyway. As of right now I have about 4 18 plus art pieces in my wip queue, only one of them is overtlyu diaper oriented right now but i'm also doing a bit of exploring here for what i want to draw too.
ok I'm starting to ramble at this point. Anyway, I'm learning to not be quite so embarrassed about my diaper kink. diapers for life.
i hope y'all enjoy the drawings
Posted 11 months agoI'm really just writing this journal so I have more than 1 journal entry, getting to it on the creator is admittedly kind of in an awkward spot but that's a me problem.
Anyway I just wanted to i hope y'all like the kink art I'm making and don't be afraid to comment on it. This actually goes for all my art-work as it actually helps know what kinds of things
i should be drawing.
right now my human to furry dial indicator is only set to a two out of five but if y'all want me to increase that power level ya gotta comment.
Anyway I just wanted to i hope y'all like the kink art I'm making and don't be afraid to comment on it. This actually goes for all my art-work as it actually helps know what kinds of things
i should be drawing.
right now my human to furry dial indicator is only set to a two out of five but if y'all want me to increase that power level ya gotta comment.
a dilemma to be sure
Posted a year agoSo when I started art dumping onto my FF account i started out with a bunch of 18 plus work i had that I wasn't quite sure where to post, y'all really seemed to like the horny stuff i was posting but I ALSO have a metric ton of stuff that Isn't the horny 18 plus type material but Is also more along the lines of what i actually like to draw, i can draw it out in public and it feels less forced than my 18 plus stuff. My dilemma then is do i continue with my 18 plus stuff or do i stop with the 18 plus stuff, i honestly don't know. I HAVE committed to at least one more 18 plus drawing and possibly 4 or 5 total but we'll see (there's a reason i never make promises )
I will be doing an art dump of a lot more of my other works here real soon.
I will be doing an art dump of a lot more of my other works here real soon.
