I'm sorta confused, I have to admit... I'm sorry this left you feeling upset. :/ Looking through all you did here I thought it was incredibly impressive and that you'd done a great job here capturing pretty much all the emotions, some of them really funny and/or adorable. I think this displays a real talent you have for putting emotion into your work, so I hope you can later come back to this and see that.

less angry now... just... irritated--
man this is not helping me, am remembering summer school things people did to me that made me very irritated that I'd want to do very mean things to them back now. -__-;

I'm glad you like the things that didn't suck in here, the good part of me appreciates that

I agree with Dorey here - amazing expression work while maintaining complete character consistency. You are a super-talented artists Kurra because emotion is SO hard to convey, and yet you do it so fluidly here.

As for the things that made you angry - the best advice this old dragon can give you is to just let it go. We live a linear life in this world; always in the present, always with the future stretching before us. What happened in the past is behind us - lost to never-ending progression of time. To let your mind linger there is to deny it the present, and to stress yourself over things that are gone. The past serves a good purpose to help teach us, better how we approach things now - take what lessons you can from it, but leave it behind you. Now-Kurra is WAY more interesting than Then-Kurra. :) *hugs*

Hah. Haha. HAHAHA complete character consistency, if you only knew...
I wish I could believe in myself. I feel like I am faking it. Friends sometimes tell me (and there is eveidence) that feeling as if you're faking something that turned out pretty easily or obviously is evidence that you're actually doing something right, but it is so hard to believe....
also it's so hard to let go. And I miss the person I used to be, it seems like i used to be so much better in the past. That's a huge part of why I don't want to let the past go, I'm trying to figure out how I was better then. Because I was.

I think what your friends said is true. :) Can't fake the talent it took to make this Kurra. ^_^

As for the past stuff, one weird effect that our perception of time tends to have is that we tend to scrub it and diminish the bad things, giving precedence to a lot of nostalgic memories instead. Example; my folks are ALWAYS sending me these e-mails about the 1950s and 60s and about how great they were in all these different regards (cool cars, sitting down to dinner, etc), which completely ignores the fact that they were NOT very good decades overall (leaded fuel, dramatically higher domestic violence and crimes, economy in the toilet, cool looking cars were also unsafe death traps, racism, lack of rights, etc). I think the same sort of nostalgia applies to your own life Kurra. And EVEN if it doesn't - even if in all truth and respects the past was better, the reality of the present is unchanged in that the past is gone. Either way... all you can do now is learn from it. If you really were better then, figure out why - what changed? What new ways could you address it moving forward to work towards that ideal again? You are always what you make yourself to be, and as such, there is no reason you can't make yourself out to be very, very awesome. :)

eh, well... maybe there's some things we can't talk about. in any case, I made proof last night that ends some stuff that I was angry about anyway.
One of the things that makes me angry maybe is that because I am so open to time (OR SOMETHING I don't know), I can easily live in the past, and urgh, you see how I guess, it's too easy for me to look at now and say NOOOOO.
and i don't wanna look at what happened, what changed. I don't wanna see how I bucked it up ARGH I didn't ask for a stupid art exercise to stall me cold mentally now to examine my personal life ARGH

Oi... that's it, I'm gonna hug you straight into the present. *hug hug squeeze hug* XD

I'm being a real thickskull too, eventually that'll stop, sorry. @_x; I'm a hardass.

Oh wow, you draw angry faces nicely. I wouldn't want to run into Kurra if he was in a bad mood! I'm surprised how fierce he looks!

Thank you. <:

Aw. :(
*hugs*
I do think you did really well with the expressions and was about to praise that happily until I scrolled down.

Don't be that hard on yourself. And maybe... don't push yourself so hard at it. (And I doubt any significant number of furry artists actually lives off what they draw...)

This is incredibly good!
Very very lively, funny expressions! You also have an amazing grasp of body language! =D


1. "can't draw faces in profile"
Practice until your f****ing hands fall off. One meme sheet hardly counts as enough practice (sorry!)
Fill several sketchbooks full of profiles (or whatever it is that you need to practice), then you can claim "I started practicing!"

2. "would make me more professional"
Well, "professional" in the strict sense of the word means that you get paid for it. If you meant "it would make my art look betterl": practice moar. Way moar. A few boxes in a meme? Not enough.


3. "or popular"
Yeah, no... You wanna be popular with your art on the internets? Draw a popular furry species (foxes, huskies). Draw porn. Draw fanart. Best would be: mix all of these. This is a rather good way to gain internet popularity. A mere expression meme will not lift you up to some sort of "high class league for furry in-artists".

4. "that will feed and clothe me"
I am sorry to break it to you, but furry art will not feed and clothe you. Ever.
Take some popular, good artists here on FA: nimrais, tanidareal, alectorfencer... (These are their FA names, go check them out). These people are incredibly talented and popular, and you know how all of them make their living? NOT BY THEIR FURRY ART. They all have steady, "normal" jobs in real life that feed them. Some of them are graphic designers in real life, but I've been told it is a rather dry job (nothing much to do with their private furry art) and shitty paid, too.

I hope I wasn't too harsh on you. Just trying to help!

Awwh, thank you. ;_; Thank you not only for saying it's good but spending all the time to write all this. I NEED THIS, help/encouragement/jumpsmack-in-ass-get-over-yourself.

a. AND I STILL NEED MOAR PRACTICE. But when I was done drawing all these, I drew proof to make sure that I could actually do it. And I did. Also, I have been practicing now so much that I overuse my wrist and my bones hurt in my forearm an hand now. Soooooo. going to stretch before drawing now. Pssh, going to practice all the practices :D
b. I need to start getting paid for something, I have bills coming in. Real life work is coming, but till then... I want and need anything. _x it's something that's been biting me over and over.
c. I don't.... want to be popular, because then I call drama. I just need to be popular enough so that I can have people pay for a bit of my art is all. And I know about all that, that it doesn't pay. I mean in general, *art career* or something related to that that will feed and clothe me. hee, you're not breaking anythign new to me cx

you're never harsh. :o