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Author: Fred Furries gives a candid commentary that reveals details about ‘fursuits’, ‘fursonas’ and the ‘furry fandom’. Award winning photographer Carmen Dobre continues her examination of ‘furries’, who they are and how they perceive themselves. Documentary style portraits alongside one-to-one interviews reveal the intriguing passions of people whose human identity is challenged by their love […]

Author: GreenReaper If you were waiting for a coffee-table book mixing fursuiting and cultural research, Furries: Enacting Animal Anthropomorphism might be it. It was created by Romanian Carmen Dobre, a Master in both cultural studies (Univ. of Bucharest) and photographic studies (Leiden), who is pursuing a PhD at the Bucharest National University of Arts. [tip: Dr. Kathy Gerbasi] The 152 […]

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submitted by ThePiachu
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Dear Papabear,

I've been drawing since I was ten, and I keep improving more and more. I do trades and art raffles online, and people are generally pleased with what I draw for them. 

Lately, I've begun to develop a "if I'm good at something, I shouldn't do it for free" mentality. I'd like to open commissions, because I would like to gain experience in selling art. I'm not the best artist, but I'm better than many. I've seen with less skill than me (and I don't mean than in a condescending way) do commissions for people, so why can't I? 

Anyway, I would like to get my foot through the door of commissions but the problem is that it seems like the yiff and fetish artists are the ones that seem to get the most customers and I don't want to draw yiff. I don't want to draw it because I just don't feel comfortable doing it. 

I'm able to draw tame(ish) fetish related art and pinups, however, if people really want me to. I'm just afraid that people will get turned off to me as an artist because I don't want to draw yiff. 

Is there a way for me to get my paw in the door of commissions without drawing yiff? 

Sincerely, 

Caleb (age 18) 

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Dear Caleb,

I agree that if you have a skill you should be able to make an income using those skills. Knowing other artists, I also have to regrettably agree that there is a higher demand for furporn than pretty much anything else out there, and I do know of artists who draw it only because they can’t make money drawing G or PG stuff.

There are a couple other ways you can still go that are still very popular with many furries, however. One is to specialize as a badge designer. It is rare to see a furcon attendee without one of these badges, and sometimes more. I have about 10 of them myself :-) You don't make a lot per badge, but they are quick to draw so you can make up with quantity what you lack in price per badge.

Second, and kind of related to the above, is character reference sheets. These are in demand by people who want to have fursuits made for them (below is a copy of the one I had done for my Grubbs Grizzly fursuit).

Another medium that is very popular is furry comics. And many of these are clean. Some furry artists who are popular with their porn have also managed to be popular with clean furry comics and graphic novels. One that comes to mind is Blotch (actually a female team of artists). If you are unsure of your writing skills, or simply have no interest in writing, there are lots of furry writers out there who are seeking a good illustrator to collaborate with (I know of one very close to me who is still looking for one).

So, there are three ideas where you can be paid as an artist to do non-furporn art that is still very popular with furries. Hope that helps!!!

Hugs,

Papabear Example of a character reference sheet used to help design a fursuit.

Author: Fred It’s over! This is Book 6 and the conclusion of Jobling’s Wereworld series, which began with Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf, and continued through Rage of Lions, Shadow of the Hawk, Nest of Serpents, and Storm of Sharks. The Wereworld Young Adult series is set on the island-continent of Lyssia on a fantasy world, in […]

submitted by Feartza
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I too want to be a commission worthy artist. Thing is my laptop's USB ports are shot. I can get my tablet to work a few times a month for maybe a couple of hours.

By now you’re probably thinking, “Why not just get a job?” I’m not gonna get into full detail about it but working isn’t an option for me right now. If you really want to know why, you can ask me.

So here’s the big idea:

If you should happen to have a dollar to spare, give me a thing to draw and I’ll do it.

My paypal email is erynskeeper@live.com

I’ll draw just about anything, or at least try to. I'll fight my laptop and make it work until I can afford a new computer.

I know they're expensive and this is quite a long shot but I have other commission ideas coming up. This is only the beginning. By the end of this I hope to have improved my art style greatly and also learn to manage my time more wisely.

Here as some random things I drew:

This is the example I posted on my tumblr

I was listening to Booty Man

A fakemon I guess

I couldn't sleep

My fursona

If this whole thing flops, then at least I tried.

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Older members of the fandom are you threatened by the teens and tweens coming into the fandom or do you enjoy the new faces?

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submitted by FizzyFoxy
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yeah this is very straightfoward, because of some life events i dont want to talk about i stoped drawing when i was 19, i am 26 now, and every day i miss drawing furry art, but somehow... i cant find inspiration again... has someone been on this process? T_T any advice would help... really...

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Can't sleep, so I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon and offer three free sketches of people's fursonas as practice, at roughly this level of quality (hopefully better as these are a little old): http://i.imgur.com/0m43BJT.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/XjOdLGQ.jpg . Reference images are nice, but bullet point descriptions are fine too. Also suggest a simple pose, or else they will just be standing there, waving or something.

SFW only

Queue:

1) wolf102

2)Octofur

3)BHamlyn

Passed out on my keyboard last night, so I'll get these done today

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Have an Xbox One? Haven't plopped down your money for Sabrewulf, Killer Instinct's furriest character, yet? Well you're in luck! He's the free character in this round's rotation. Every few weeks or so, KI will have a new character shuffled out for people to try out. The previous one available was Jago, which launched with the Xbox One back in November.

Sabrewulf comes with the 675MB update, which provides some much needed patches to the game, which can be checked out here.

http://i.imgur.com/eON9SWn.jpg

I do not know the artist, but i'd love to have it as my wallpaper. However, right now its not fit for being a wallpaper. Can you guys possibly find a higher resolution version of it? Thanks! :3

submitted by TheVloginator
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so I kinda found out about furrys through my best friend he's a furry and being a supportive friend I looked into it and decided that it wasn't really my thing but then I found scaleys and it kinda goes from there I was wondering how I start and what if anything should I tell my family about this?

I asked this at /r/scaley they told me to ask here.

(Edit: I'm 18 in a few months I just wanted to know some of the basics for when I'm finally free to be my own person)

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