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submitted by Amethyst_Lynx
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I want to draw some free art for people so please give me references and I'll do my best! :)

submitted by BluepatchTheDog
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I am now offering commissions at low prices compared to some other people on Deviant Art. You can pay with points or money! Information and commissions offered can be found here - http://bluepatchthedog.deviantart.com/journal/COMMISSIONS-INFO-558436205

If you're interested in a commission, please email me at drosephotography@icloud.com

submitted by BluepatchTheDog
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Hey again, welcome back! For this week, your fursona has woken up in the 1920's, in a time before colour was invented! This week I'm looking for submissions either in greyscale or sepia, because I want you all to focus on the value and brightness of your images, not just the colours!

Thanks to everyone who submitted art for Week 11's prompt. While I know it wasn't the most furry-specific subject, the aim of this weekly prompt is to help you become a better all-round artist, and part of that involves learning fundamentals, not just furries. There may occasionally be a few more like that, but don't worry, it won't be a regular thing!

Week 11

submitted by CeresSergal
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Action-filled fantasy from the Golden Age of furry comics, and a return of one of the fandom’s foundational artists…

Lage and Calderon’s “Tall Tails”

Kickstarter ending 9/16/15

(So I know this book is by JD Calderon as well as Daphne Lage, but in a fandom graphic novel project, particularly a “flashback” project like this, leading with the graphic artist seems more appropriate…and we’ve covered Calderon’s kickstarters already :)

Collecting over 20 issues of the original “Tall Tails” comic and clocking in at a whopping 550+ pages, Lage and Calderon’s Tall Tails: Thieves’ Quest is a massive blast from the past. This fantasy/anthro comic’s original print run began in 1993 and wound all the way through 2002 through various indie comic publishers. Lage and Calderon’s Kickstarter project collects the first, and arguably primary, arch of the story in one huge book, a happy return to print for a comic that’s only available in back issue boxes at conventions.

The story is strong-but-standard fantasy fare: an adventuring party searches for the Lost Something of Somewhere (Wikifur suggests that the comic was, at least in its dusty origins, a furry pastiche of Monty Python’s “Holy Grail.” I can’t confirm or deny it, but there ARE universal fantasy tropes, and the Search for the Magical McGuffin is a proud and honorable plot thread.) But over and above the traditional content, Lage’s artwork, with its lifelike and natural poses and expressive characters, makes the series stand out as a very strong part of the furry graphic storytelling world.

This kickstarter itself has a fair amount of RL backstory. Life and artists are complicated. While I love Lage’s work and am quite happy to see this Kickstarter launch, there was some initial back-and-forth for me. Lage had edged away from the Fandom a decade ago. There are very good reasons for this. Entitled and snarky fans (and bloggers), the occasional genuinely evil online cretin, the frankly weird culture that goes frankly weird places, the difficulty in being “professional” and “furry” at the same time, the challenge of being an artist with a strong adult portfolio illustrating in a professional capacity.

So, I was prepared to spend 50 words or so (but only 50!) grumping about an inside/outside approach to the fandom. I can understand the choice, Lage’s retreat from the fandom was in 2000-2002, what I consider the Dark Ages of the fandom—hostile media coverage and no shortage of internet hate. Not just from external sources.

I hereby withdraw my grumping.

For the first time in ~14 years, Mrs. Lage returned to the Fandom, attending Anthro New England as an artist, along with Calderon. It’s exciting to see an artist from the Furry Golden Age return in the post-millennial era, where furries have been partially mainstreamed. And maybe it was specifically to help with the book launch, but you know, that’s okay, it’s still a welcome return, and shows that the fandom has value to the artist. It’s also worth pointing out in the project video that she specifically references Tall Tails as a furry comic. Involvement in the community is a good thing, it helps ensure that there’s a community, and one with a history and a legacy.

Re: The Kickstarter itself, it’s lacking in some of the stuff I’d hope for, namely fan-service inclusion and commissionables. This is primarily a reprint-focused Kickstarter, and if you look beyond the awesome sample pages and solid infographics, it’s a very spare project story, only perhaps three paragraphs of text. It’s unreasonable to make “backer-created content” a condition of a successful kickstarter, but that is the driving force behind the higher pledge points in projects like Anubis: Dark Desire and Expanding Horizons: Artist’s Journey to Africa. There’s also some choices in the pledge points that strike me as a little weird, and clearly weren’t successful—the digital versions of just issues 1-9 or 1-15. You could argue that including these oddball pledge points didn’t hurt the campaign, but something that doesn’t help AND takes up extra screen real estate is overall a detriment to the project. Do what you can to avoid standing in the way of your customer spending money. But hindsight is 20-20.

Graymuzzles and fantasy fans that enjoyed the original series have an additional reason to support this project. With Tall Tails online with updates, Lage making some steps back into the world of the fandom, and the suggestion of a new title, and two more story arcs yet to be seen, supporting this project even at a “hug” level is strong encouragement for future furry work.

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submitted by TinyPotatoAttack
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submitted by Slyka
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submitted by Yiffing_Time
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submitted by S_XOF
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Hey /r/furry. I was thinking of starting an alternate history. Starting back around 1585, each post will skipping forward in history to very important dates and events. What do you guys think about it?

submitted by landlockedShark
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Hi everyone. I started to listen to music a lot recently. Like I can't take my headphones out all day XD So that makes me wonder, what are you people's favorite music/musician? Right now my favorite music is dubstep and musician is Skrillex naturally :D What are yours?

submitted by CAN-X2002
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Grubbs is 50 today, and, coincidentally, so am I. I celebrated the morning by greeting it in my birthday suit in my backyard. Jim is taking me to Catalina Island (it's free to ride the boat from Long Beach on your birthday). It will be low key. Walk around the island, go on an island tour, glass-bottom boat ride....

Instead of reflecting on the past, I'm going to look forward. I resolve that in 2016 I will have completed The Furry Book, and it will be most excellent :-3 This isn't a book about the history of furry, if you were wondering. No, I call it a GUIDE to the fandom for both furries and non-furries (mundanes, if you will). I'm conducting interviews with both well-known and not-so-known furries, and it will be well-illustrated with interesting photographs and, perhaps, some drawings.

I will continue to learn how to play the piano, and I hope sometime in 2016 to find a good, used upright for the living room (keyboards are nice, but nothing like a real piano).

I will continue to improve my nest--aka, my house in the valley. But I will not make the mistake again that a house is the center of one's universe. Home is not a building, it is a state of mind.

I will continue to write the "Ask Papabear" column. Might even put together a "best of" collection and see if that sells.

I will continue to be a friend to furries.

I will come to peace with my spirituality and my place in the universe.

Nothing is permanent in life. That is the one biggest lesson I have learned in the past 10 years since discovering that I was gay and having my world turned upside down. I now embrace the present and focus on the pleasures of each moment as I experience it.

I've also learned that there is no joy in the acquisition of things. My biggest joy in life comes from helping others and loving others.

I love you people.

Blessed Be

submitted by Stealthtyper
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submitted by VentKazemaru
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Umm, yes. What was I going to say?

Oh yes. Could you give me your sonas and other things? I'm bored and I want to try something new so I'm going to do awful little sprites with backgrounds and other stuff. Please?

Give me an art or description! Give me a setting! Give me an action! Watching the sunset, shopping, stabbing someone. Actually, if it is stabbing someone give me two characters or collaborate with someone.

Sorry it's not proper art or even good pixel art but I'm bored and need something to do. This is what you can expect. Awful, I know but hey.

I'll probably do five and I'll do then one's that interest me. Thank you for helping me cure boredom and do pixel art or if no-one comments then thanks for nothing toss pots. I'm kidding you're still cool.

Edit: shows over folks.

submitted by scamer38
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Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com.  SFGate looked at a map of the “most embarrassing Google searches” in the USA and found me. (Appeared in photo #9.)  “Furries” is supposedly searched a lot in Wyoming. The map also shows who searched for: Bronies, Nickelback Lyrics, Dog Clothes, Meth Recipe… Who knows […]

submitted by SkullRico
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Work is soooooo slow..... Give me some ideas of what to draw! This will be on paper :3 I'm just bored

Comment below with reference and I'll do something random with your sona!

submitted by FizzyFoxy
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submitted by zemallo
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A 78-piece full tarot, inspired by the traditional Rider-Waite deck, but this time, FOXES.

The Fox Tarot

Kickstarter ending 9/15/15

I’m sure I said this before, but “creating my own tarot” must be one of those challenges that every fantasy artist picks up, dusts off, puts back on the shelf, picks up again, thinks about donating to Goodwill, puts back on shelf, thinks “Well, I’ll use this someday…”, puts back on shelf…it’s like a copy of Ulysses, existing more as a challenge than something that should actually be pursued. I mean, it’s 78 individual pieces of art. That’s a lot of art! And like covering the entire Beatles catalog, each piece has its own expectations and challenges. You could just say “Oh, well, I’ll just draw a piece that is my concept of stagnation and hierarchy and call it The Emperor,” but the Rider-Waite deck is so compelling, it’s a symbol set that’s the defining image of tarot.

Mary Hoy (DeviantArt) has taken on the quest to slay the dragon—no offense to any dragon readers—and created the Fox Tarot, now on Kickstarter. Her work has a delicate, haunted quality, as if she put a few drops of liquid Tim Burton into the mixing bowl, though it’s solidly in the cartoony camp. If you’d like to see the heart of the deck, you can check out her Major Arcana on Deviantart. I particularly like The Fool and The Magician.

One thing that I admire about this set is that it’s inspired by the traditional Rider-Waite deck, but isn’t a strict copy of it. For instance, look at Mary Hoy’s “The Magician” and then glance at the standard Rider-Waite version of the same. There’s some of the same elements (literally! It’s a Tarot joke…), you can see echoes of the older card, but Hoy’s erred on the side of humor, sympathy, and emotion. Her work is a little rough, with sketchy lines and more than a few photoshop effects, but personally, I think it’s an appealing, fresh, and approachable Tarot.

Re: the Kickstarter itself, it’s worth saying, Hoy is using Kickstarter as a selling platform, not a development tool. Much of the special perks are the sort of thing you could get on a produce-on-demand site like CafePress. One pain point I had with the pledge levels is that the level at which you can buy the deck itself is steep—$45—and that’s more than I’d care to pay for a standard tarot deck (which tend to range from $15-$35, depending.) However, Hoy also distributes through Etsy, where you can get one version of the Fox Tarot for under $30, a more manageable price point. But if you like the product and want the extra goodies—poster versions, for instance—then the Kickstarter is a good investment.

On the other paw, the fact that the work already exists and that this Kickstarter is a 2.0 expansion, with bigger cards (or tinier cards, pick your poison), some touchup, and pretty borders, makes it a solid and low-risk project. Given the risks in backing a campaign, a little security goes a long way!

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