Even if you read this journal JUST NOW, anytime after I posted it, you can still reply. I would love to know!

Hello everybody! I haven't opened for commissions since like 2018 I believe and thought I would ask all of you my wonderful followers a bit about commissions and see how much interest there currently is. My hand and arm is finally starting to heal well after my ordeal of mistreatments that caused more then 3 years of problems and me hardly being able to do much - much less draw. I am able to do a bit of drawing more then ever in the last years now but not yet comfortable enough to take commissions. I hope to be fully recovered in hopefully not too long. :)

I am curious what kind of commissions you would want to get from me in the future. You want to order commisions of your own characters with friends characters? You want to put my characters like Gwen or Mio with your own characters (which I am totally fine with)? Illustrations, sketches or animations? Adoptables or YCHs? Stuff like that.

You can link to examples, show your own OCs etc if you wish as I am curious about that too.

I am just mainly wanting to check everyone's interests and take notes for when I open up! :)

Read that there are scammers claiming to be DJpuppeh on this site 8http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9147790/), made me take action and create my own.

So here is mine: https://ych.commishes.com/user/Zaggatar

Now you know it is the only true and safe one since it is comming straight from me.

I got off my ass and finally made myself a Patreon, since I heard they will change the rates and all after May 1st. I been thinking about getting one for a veeery long time, but didn't get around to it - untill now because of the rate change.

Here it is for those who want to take a peak and hopefully subscribe to me! https://www.patreon.com/zaggatar

I wanted to use my patreon for funding me doing future art and so, hopefully comics etc too! I thought I would post as I usually do, but I will release things to the public one month after I release it to Patreon! There are some tiers, some that will make it possible to get a sketch of me per month or possibly win one sketch in "spin the wheel" streams!

I hope you wan't to follow me on my Patreon! Do let me know what you think about this. :)

I made a poll! When it comes to commissions, adoptables etc - I wonder what kinda things my followers are interested in? I made this lil poll. I also had idea of "demonification" or something similar of peoples characters. Like give me your character and I change it a bit or a lot. C&C welcome!

https://twitter.com/Zaggatar/status.....16606493331457

I just need to tell everyone I got the fatigue when it comes to drawing furry stuff. I was going to disable my account, which I did for some time, but I really should tell everyone watching me why and it is probably a better idea to leave it open as it is since I will return sometime. It is just that I need to focus on other stuff, I drawn too much furry stuff and I am tired of it as of now.

I will post the commission I am making for  elisonous which is almost done and then I need to focus on non-furry stuff for a while.

Doing the disappearing act is quite silly of me I realize. Sorry about that!

I watched this interview with the great artist Steve Huston and it is something I recommend for everyone who want to be an artist to give a listen.

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I was given permit by  missy to reuse and edit her T.O.S. created by  mavager, thank you Missy and Mav!

Hello all my lovely followers!

I have been thinking lately and seeing as I am not that far away from 100 000 pageviews, which is quite humbling and awesome in its own way (thank you so much all!) I realize I should try out slowly treading my toes into the waters commissions. A lot of people have been asking me over the years if I do commissions and I always had to tell them sorry. But all that gotta change one day I though. In a way I never felt ready on a personal level.

Seeing as I never ever done a commission before here or on any other page I thought the first one I would ever do like this would be "special" and to my utmost abilities as to break into the world of commissions! So this will be my first ever official commission, and therefor I thought I would have it as an auction! Payment will be upfront before I start the commission.

Since I don't have much time over for art nowadays I don't know how long till the next commission or commissions. Plus the commission might take a lil while, but I will put my utmost into it!
I will announce in about a week or so when I will take it! If you know anyone that would be interested in this, do please tell them, link them or note them in anyway! :)

The kind of things I will do can be SFW or NSFW. Except for the usual will-not-draw I will make a list over what I will or will not draw.

Do post your thoughts on this! I would love to read em!

~Zag

Some people, you know. :v You should post this as a reply for certain people.

ONLY for MOUSE/RAT and FELINE characters. One of each needed in bigger painting. :P

Only under stream here --->https://picarto.tv/Zaggatar

An animal version of me would be a fly. You know why? Because I been told I got a shit eating grin.


What animal would an animal version of you be? Share! And joke it around!

I realize that there is a big treasure mound of improvement in looking back at older works, works you felt were great when finished but as time goes on and as you improve you then realize something about them is a bit off. You can still learn a thing or two from these older pieces - although one shouldn’t spend too much time revising older works and be quick about it, too much time means you could instead spent that time creating new original works. Doing fast revisions I think will help you avoid repeating those same mistakes again, which is the whole purpose of this exercise. It is like when someone asks you for a paintover of their painting, but this time you ask yourself for a paintover for one of your own paintings. These examples I am posting here shows what I am talking about.

For the examples I talk about, see images here: http://zaggatar.tumblr.com/post/157.....lder-works-and

I noticed and also got critique by friends later on on how my green Sceptile lady was too shiny and reflective in the shaded area of her skin, later on looking at some photos and comparing it I did a quick revision of her and felt that making the shaded area darker and more unified in value had her look more realistic overall. This exercise helped me to avoid doing the same thing in my later works.

In the painting of my vampire dragon bat thing there were something always bugging me about it even after finishing it. As I looked back on it months later, I felt the composition was a bit off and that the saturation of the background competed with the foreground. In an area like this a saturation difference would help the character stand out from the background, and creating a revised image with a desaturated background with some bright light added behind the character helped her stand out more. More work could have been done to revise it further, but I learned my lesson and that is what this is all about.

In the fox and horse painting I got too focused on detail while working on it - so much that I didn’t notice that the values of the image were overall too unified and close to each other. Objects should be separated in value from each other to be either further away or closer to each other, something I realized I didn’t do well enough as it all had the same dark values in the overall composition of values. When I later revised the image I added a soft layer of brighter light on all areas in the image except the legs closest to the viewer and then it all popped out and now I think there is a whole new breath of space to the image, separating the legs from their torsos and heads more then the previous image.

This is just a tip I have personally found working very well for me recently and I learned a lot from my own old paintings doing this and I felt I wanted to share this to people. As long as you learn something new, fix a misconception you had in your art for long and then when you will be able to apply what you learned it is a success. I hope you will learn as much or even more then me from doing this fun little exercise, it also boosts your artistic confidence since you realize you have improved since doing the old pieces!

I am now on the so called FA-killer! After all the FA fuckuperoo I wonder how it will goo. They're also now banning cub porn so that is an even more valid reason to sign up. Hooray!

https://beta.furrynetwork.com/zaggatar/

I realised I made an account there long ago but never uploaded anything, so I will start!

Here's a link! :)

https://zaggatar.sofurry.com/

"This is something as rare as a Lazy Salkow, an animal that now in in the wild can only be found on the island Carguelen situated in the Pacific ocean.
This strange animal is foremost characterized by its extreme slowness but also by its ability to express great sorrow at setbacks.
Its favorite food consists of cucumber which should preferably be fresh and sliced."

Heya everyone! I thought I would start using my veeeery old deviantart account that I haven't used up until now. Here is a link for anyone who is interested in checking it out!

http://zaggatar.deviantart.com/