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Sorry for doing this again already but I also wanted to very quickly mention that Im doing these cheap flat color pinups for $5 a piece.

I promise the next time I post it will be with more free art. Sorry for being a nuisance ;~;

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Hi all!

The con starts in a few days, so I thought I'd make a post and see who's going.

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JM is at Confuzzled this coming weekend, presenting an [adjective][species] talk—Exploring the Fandom Through Data: Furry Demographics and Sexual Behaviour—followed by a Q&A. We have some brand new data to share, based on preliminary results from the 2015 Furry Survey (www.furrypoll.com), plus lots more. (Confuzzled is an 18+ convention, and this will be an 18+ panel.)

It’s on at 4:30pm on Sunday. Stop by if you can.

And feel free to say hello to JM if you see him around the convention, i.e. at the bar.

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But they aint free ;~; Sorry guys. Its not that time again.

But I am struggling to get at all noticed and have only got commissions from you guys on here so I shall propose an offer.

Im doing cheap headshots over on fa but if any of you guys want one, il knock a dollar off cause I like my fellow reddit furs.

I really hate having to do this self promotion stuff but I cant get a job cause Ireland sucks for college students so I'm totally strapped for cash.

So yeah, if anyone would like one just pm me or send me a note on fa :)

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Long weekend woooo! What are we up to on this awesome day off? Did you do anything awesome for the long weekend?

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I have 10 slots (possibly more) for full body flat color commissions. $10 each, $15 for couples. My other prices are the same if you're interested in those.

Thanks guys c:

http://imgur.com/bj57lxs

Just PM me here or note me on deviant art at harmony-heartstrings.deviantart.com

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I didn't see one in a while and I think it was a fantastic idea, so here we go!

Credit to Sareii for the awesome idea and incoming wall of text:

Requesters! Comment with what you're looking to have drawn. I'll leave that up to you. If you would like to make it an art trade, specify that you're willing to draw in return!

Artists! Come browse through the comments just like you would in your own free offer threads, pick and choose. Help make someone's day a bit brighter!

I know I'll be checking through here this [week] (end of the weekend, to give everyone a fair chance) to draw some of your requests, I hope other artists would be willing to do the same.

In fact I PLEAD to those artists to participate.

Let's give this through [Saturday] to comment, so plenty of people have a chance to make a request. This is a first time thing so let's give it room for error.

• Thread is dead this Sunday, have fun doodling/begging!

EDIT: Guise, maybe it's just me, but no, asking for a ref sheet ain't especially appropriate here :/

I love to design characters and will gladly do, but doing a turntable/refsheet... (ie: Multiple consistent shots of the same character from different angle, hours of excruciating work.) Ref pic, sure, ref sheet is a big NOPE imho

So do include written descriptions if you have no reference, but don't expect a Da Vinci either! :3

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And this is not how much would you WANT to live.

I want you to take small bits and pieces in account (Police, FBI, you get the point :P)

I am giving myself a week. MAX

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Illustration from Floral Frolic on Kickstarter.

You know, I think the “charm” project is our version of the minimalist wallet.

I’ve mentioned this before, but there’s a recurring project idea on Kickstarter (besides endless versions of the Werewolf card game and crowdfunded salad), and that’s the wallet–usually “minimalist wallet,” which is a sort of up-scale version of holding all your cards together with a rubber band. Like Kickstarter said in their blog, “another day, another slim wallet.”

An unavoidable fact about Kickstarter, it’s very much a popularity contest, and most new artists aren’t going to be able to get the $6,000 or however much to launch their graphic novel. So while Kickstarter is theoretically a great place to trade talent for money without the middle man, in practice, your first project is likely to crash and burn–unless it’s a modest little mini-project. Stickers and charms fit that bill really well–only a few pages of new art needed, a budget as low as $300 to run a slick print job, and a bright and colorful project to capture an audience’s attention.

Then, you come back to them for the graphic novel or webcomic. It’s a nice way to build some momentum!

Right now I’m only looking at two charms–a batch of eevies from Ashbee Illustrations, and some cuddly little cosplay alpacas from Snow-Mishibari. Unfortunately, neither is going gangbusters right now. There’s no easy way to say why–it may be that the eevee card is (heh) played out right now, or that alpacas are just too strange for a fandom that never really gets outside the world of large carnivores. So these are both kind of proving me wrong at the moment. Remember, research before ramble next time. Got it.

 

For a “complete” list of furry/fur-friendly crowdfunding projects, check out the Project Page! New Projects Children’s Products

Flora Frolic: A Foxy Fairy Tale (Ends: 6/12/2015)
Two super-adorable foxes gather flowers in a rainbow watercolor meadow. Cute foxes and a number of interesting gimmes.
Nearly to goal! But I’m concerned about all the add-ons, it looks like scope creep. Art is amazing, more at the the artist’s FA page.

Clothing/Costume

Tiny Equine Stockings (Ends: 6/8/2015)
brightly colored and obviously not trademarked stockings in the colors and and markings of the Mane Seven (six + Derpy Hoove).

Comics/Graphic Novels

Gamer Girl & Vixen #1 & 2 (Ends: 6/15/2015)
Minimally furry, but great subject: a lesbian supervillain love story in comic form, and at least one weaponized koopa shell.

SpaceRamblers (Ends: 6/29/2015)
The SpaceRamblers project returns in its colorful manga space-opera glory, with a stronger business plan and a print version.

Stickers/Charms

Cospaca! Cute Alpaca Cosplay Charms (Ends: 6/15/2015)
A miniproject of extremely floofy alpacas in costumes, from artist Snow-Mishbari.

Video Games

Cats In Space Suits (Ends: 6/12/2015)
A silly little mobile puzzler, a bit Angry Birds, but with cats and planetary gravity wells.
Minimally furry, but ?the graphics are pretty cute.

Loco the Firefox (Ends: 7/2/2015)
Iphone platformer with a bouncing, spinning red panda springing through a world of high-definition barrels

…Causes

Shiba Prom (Ends: 7/12/2015): A virtual dance party for dogs and other small mammals to raise money for Shiba Inu rescue groups and puppy mill awareness campaigns.

…Just for fun

Harris Dies on Page 32 (Ends: 6/15/2015): A collection of tweets and shorts from the world of @AwfulFantasy

…Meh

2020 AD (Ends: 6/10/2015): An incoherant project with a LOT of tame and NSFW original and fan/commission art. The graphics are good, but the writing is just not publishable, and the business plan is unclear and not a very good value ($17 for a digital comic?)

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Furclubbing: “A repeat/regular nightclub event by furries for furries.”  It’s a New Thing that’s been spreading since the late 2000’s.  This kind of dance party is independent from conventions.  This builds on the growth of cons, and takes things farther.  It’s more established than events that happen once, house parties or informal meets.  Those can be inner-focused, or gather […]

A little anime, a little space opera, and a lot of epic.

 

Space Ramblers

UPDATE! The Space Ramblers webcomic has come back to Indiegogo after a hiatus with a revised business plan and a print version. Check their new Indiegogo campaign. Some of the content of this post may be out of date, check their campaign for the latest information. Campaign ends 6/29/15.

Space Ramblers–soon to appear on a web browser near you–is a massively epic space opera–it’s got swords, it’s got blasters, it has dragons, it potentially has the end of the universe, and may, possibly, have strange and ancient gods. It definitely has a panda.

SR is the project of Roman Polikarpov and team, and the first five pages are up, teaser-style. Given the general structure of “Epic Space Opera” as a genre, it’s kind of like seeing Dumbledore dropping off Harry P at the Dursley’s, or the destruction of Krypton–these are events that set the motion for what’s coming next. We’re not really setting the stage for Act 1, Scene 2, so much as showing the scale and importance of what’s to come, even though the trope of the Hero of Destiny is always “start small, end global.”

I’m only saying, I’ve seen two pandas so far. One controls the universe and sent his family away in an escape pod, the other looks a bit like Lina Inverse‘s younger, slacker sister. It’s not a bad look.

The prologue does show off Polikarov’s art, which–kind of like manga, really–ranges from moody and detailed to–dang, is there a word for it when anime characters are suddenly drawn in a simple, silly way, to show that they’re being simple and silly? By and large, the art is exceptional for a webcomic, and if it can maintain a weekly page of this caliber with a small team, that’s a pretty good level of quality.

You can learn more about the various characters and some of the technology of the SpaceRamblers universe over on Polikarpov’s FA account. If you like sci-fi it’s definitely worth a +watch.

There’s a common problem in funding webcomics online. It’s kind of like the problem of kickstarting a video game: “This is going to be AWESOME when we have a final product, but the progress shots are grainy and low-rez because it’s in development!” That problem–which I’ve seen time and again–is that as you start a webcomic, you just don’t have a fan base. A basic rule of crowdfunding is that it is, at the end of the day, something of a popularity contest. You either have to have a great fan base or a really amazing product to get the dollars. Webcomics get dinged on both sides–a new webcomic doesn’t have the warm bodies and eyeballs to get the big dollars. And because artists change and grow, what it is on page one isn’t what it will become three years down the road. The art will change over time (unless, like Girl Genius, the artist has spent decades honing his style. Look at Page 1 and Page Now of Housepets, though). Or like The Furry Experience, the tone of the comic shifts as it hits its stride.

Funding a new webcomic, both for the creator and her patrons, usually ends up being a leap of faith. Thankfully you’re not dumping tons of money into a bound and printed product, but there is a lot of time that could go down the drain in terms of development. And for the patron, you can’t flip through the material and decide what it’s worth to you, because you really don’t know what it’s going to be worth to you.

That’s the principle challenge of Space Ramblers. It’s a new title by a relatively new artist. Polikarpov’s FA and DA accounts are new creations, devoted mainly to the webcomic. There is a furry scene in Russia, where Polikarpov hails from, so that’s a growth opportunity down the road, but it looks like a small community.  Now, Space Ramblers is getting an FA banner ad, and that will hugely help their exposure (those ads, they’re magic, seriously). But with the Indiegogo campaign already launched without a robust fan base, it may be too late for this trip around the merry-go-round. We’ll see.

I almost never say this, but SpaceRamblers should probably have gone flexible funding. I love all-or-nothing funding, it says “hey! I’ve got a business plan!” but webcomics are soft and squishy things. It costs very little to start one up, and while the burden of time is huge, the literal financial cost really isn’t (yes, time and money are the same thing, but only after you can make a part time job out of your passion.) That’s why an ongoing tip jar like Patreon makes a lot of sense for a content provider, it’s revenue that can slowly build as your customer base does.

So far as the Indiegogo page goes, it’s not bad. It has the hard story to tell of “fund my free, publicly-available art,” which is a difficult task in our notoriously cheap fandom. I have some issues with the content–artists are not necessarily marketers, and there’s a lot of “wow this is great!” instead of clear communication of the project’s scope, the characters, and so on, but that’s what FA is for, fleshing out the details. “Tell me that it’s fantastic” is never as compelling as telling me why it’s fantastic.

(It’s one of life’s sad truths that marketers, quite possibly the most useless creatures on board the Golgafrinchan Ark, B-Class, generally have nothing to contribute to the world but hand-waving and exclamation points–but the real creators of the world have their hands full, and really need well-placed exclamation points. After 12 years in marketing, I’ve been able to accept that, to paraphrase Milton, “they also serve who only stand and wave.”)

So here’s my hope for SpaceRamblers. With its low goal, it’s possible that it could make goal after its FA banner ad goes online, but that’s going to be challenging. It has the advantage of being one of the top projects on Indiegogo’s “Comics” page, which usually only fills two or three screens anyway, so it’ll maintain its visibility through the campaign if it gets a few tweets and outside links and the artist posts a lot of updates (Indiegogo tip: posting updates increases your “gogo factor.” I bet FurAffinity links aren’t helpful here since FA hides itself from Google, but I have no way to test that.)

Anyway, my hope would be that the SpaceRamblers campaign is a soft launch for Polikarpov’s comic, and that its funding level without an established fan base is not a reflection of what it could be down the road, after six months of material, an FA banner ad, and maybe a convention table or two. It’s challenging for an unknown artist to raise money, but every artist started out as an unknown.

Follow @furstarter on twitter for the latest fur-friendly crowdfunding projects!

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I was practicing driving today and some guy pulled past me. His vehicle had a bunch of paw prints on it and a drawing of a fursona near his license plate. Glad to know I'm not the only floof in South Carolina.

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