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Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this review: ROAR volume 6, Scoundrels, edited by Mary E. Lowd. Dallas, TX, Bad Dog Books, July 2015, trade paperback $19.95 (394 pages), Kindle $9.95. ROAR, Bad Dog Books’ about-annual anthology of non-erotic furry adventure short fiction, enters a new phase with volume 6. Volumes 2 through […]

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I sure as hell do. If you answered yes to those questions. Then I sure as hell hope you can answer yes to the next part.

If that's what you want. If you truly want to show people it's more than just 'sitting at home and doodling all day'. Then are you prepared to treat it like a business?

Are you ready to make yourself sit down and say: Okay. I have these 3 commissions I need to get done by next week. This auction just ended, and need to be done no later than 2 months from now. I just sent out 5 WIP's, i'm waiting for approval. Assuming I get approval by tomorrow I can have two done on thursday. This person wasn't satisifed with their sketch, I owe them a refund. Not sure if i have the money to refund them RIGHT now. But I can get it once that person that just won the auction sends their payment and that'll be squared away. This commission has been sitting for 4 weeks without a check-in. I need to communicate with them to let them know what's going on and see if they're still interested. Don't feel well today. Gonna post about it so people are aware that their estimated wait time may be x-amount of days longer. Cat is sick. This may put a damper on refunds and work. I'll keep everyone in the loop with a post. Shit it's been a really rough month AND I have art block....but there are people who PAID ME TO DO MY JOB, I can't keep making excuses. I will push through it. I can't take more work on yet because I ALREADY HAVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF UNFINISHED WORK.

Can you do some of these or ALL OF THESE every day/week/month?

Can you set deadlines for yourself?

Can you communicate with your buyers, DESPITE possibly having anxiety that you'd made them wait too long?

Can you set up a planner or a trello to keep yourself on task?

CAN YOU BE YOUR OWN BOSS EFFECTIVELY???!!

Can you realize that if you worked anywhere else and didn't get things done or took 7 'mental health days' that you'd get fired?

If you can't. Then i don't understand how you expect to be respected as a freelance artist and personal business.

When money exchanges hands. Its a job. Yes people get sick. Other jobs allow sick days too. Yes people get pregnant. Other jobs allow pregnant leave too. Yes sometimes you just gotta have a mental health day. (outside of the art world that's called, calling in sick and lying about it).

But at VERY FEW JOBS is it okay to take 6 months to a year to get people their product. (HUGE EXCEPTIONS LIKE OBVIOUSLY MOVIES, COMICS, ETC. These are HIGH demanding projects that usually take TEAMS OF PEOPLE. so don't even go there with me )

At VERY few jobs can you find reason after reason after reason to not come in/do work. After a while they stop becoming sympathetic and -fire- you. Because you are expected to function in society through the hard times AS WELL as the good ones.

And when there are artists who can't uphold these values...it inflicts ALL of us.

Because of reasons like this :http://vexstacy.deviantart.com/jour.....ople-492945759 Bad work ethic makes people wary to take such a risk a second time commissioning another artist.

So maybe, if that's too hard for someone. Keep drawing. BY ALL MEANS. DON'T EVER STOP. But you probably aren't anywhere NEAR READY to be taking money for it. Keep it a hobby.

EDIT: The link is broken and shows results to a poll stating the 60% of people who have had a commission have waited up to 6 months!

EDIT:We got a anonymous downvoter on out hands. Must be an artist with a bad reputation. XD

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submitted by NoahGoldFox
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I'm back to give away more art~ This worked out so well last time, so why not just copy the text from the first one? :p

"Hi guys! I'm in the mood to draw, and a tad out of practice, so I'm doing an art giveaway!

Write a comment with a link to an image or reference of your sona, and I'll pick a few at random and draw them in the "Chibi - Flat Colour" style depicted here: http://www.furaffinity.net/commissions/cyantler/

Feel free to request a pose in your comment, and as long as it's not too complicated for me/the style, I'll try to draw your sona in that pose~

For more of my work, check out my FA: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/cyantler/

I look forward to seeing what 'sonas you'd have me draw~ .w."

Previous winners:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17840013/ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17840043/ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17840082/

;D

submitted by Cyantler
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Hey there! We the mods over at /r/SergalYiff have been working to make the improvements that were needed.

We got a bit ahead of ourselves last time, and made the announcement about the subreddit well before it was ready. And honestly, the announcement itself was pretty lackluster as was the subreddit itself.

Since that original post though, we have added posting guidelines that we were missing before, and created a layout/interface that we are pretty satisfied with.

Having done that, we feel much more prepared to spread the word about it. That's not to say that it is perfect, and we are still trying to make it better each day. We are very open to suggestions on what we can do to make everyone's experience there more memorable and fulfilling.

We would love to see those that are interested join us over there! And we are very excited to have the chance to bring tasty SergalYiff to all of you.

See you on the other side!

As a note to the moderators here. From reading through the posting guidelines this post didn't seem to breaking any rules. If I'm incorrect and you want me to take this down, please let me know and I will gladly do so.

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submitted by Myrandall
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It's here, and it's stickied. ---> https://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/3ponjw/piesona_megathread/

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submitted by CloudTheWolf
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I wanted to quickly get something for myself and my girlfriend before Halloween and I thought it would be nice if I get it for her before she gets back home ^ ^

Anyone do rush commissions that won't break the bank?

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Go nuts, but please dont be offended if you have a generic canine fursona and I decide not to do it.

My FurAffinity Page

Tips to jaethebunny@gmail.com through PayPal are also massively appreciated. I'm in a financial crisis at the moment.

*Had to make a crucial part of this post in bold. Please guys, no more canines... last request thread, half of them were just generic canines I can't fucking take it anymore

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submitted by nevinshaffer
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Hello friends! My birthday was a couple of days ago. Still working my way though a box of amazing cupcakes that my big sister had delivered <3

I'm sort of stuck on my current drawing while I wait on more info from the commissioner, so come chat for a little bit and maybe let me doodle you for practice?

*(Actually, I'm not particularly fond of that song. It's like her voice couldn't decide between pop and country.)

EDIT I'd best be going to bed, thank you all for the birthday wishes!

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