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Whoops that was a whole year by Thea
What happened? 2017 was a blur.
But anywho, it has been a good year none the less. I'm currently revising my website and always suffering the eternal struggle of defining myself. I can't make my mind up about anything regarding my art career, but after going to One Fantastic Workshop in TN last month I learned some real statistics and after denying my numbers for 9 years I've come to realize it's simply not feasible to go to anymore furry conventions. Sucks that travel is so expensive from where I live.
1FW also helped me make a conviction about Liquescence and I am taking it off my Patreon. I'm not shelving the project entirely, but I need to reassess if it'll ever gain enough interest to warrant publishing or if I can come up with the emotional investment to pursue it as a comic anthology.
So for now I am focusing on alternative income and doing artistic exploration-trying to overcome this horrible stress I get fretting about my role in full illustration client work.
How many survivors are still out there? What social site do you tend to spend the most of your time online?
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I've recently abandoned tumblr as the founder resigned after finding out the parent company coughVerizon secretly deleted posts protesting against the FCC for net neutrality. Over 10k users have followed suit. Sorry, but that platform might be dead soon D: Everyone's moving to Ebaumsworld.
I've belatedly come to the realization what people want from artists and what artists want from their own work are two very different things. So at this point I'm pretty much going to be almost exclusively YCH's or freestyle commissions whilst aiming towards a style that's a lot more livelier with an intuitive/quicker process, but it's honestly nerve wracking going against a brand almost 10 years old. I feel like I need to restart all over again incognito making a safe space to play/document crappy studies.
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EbaumsWorld looks like a bunch of those weird ads/article links all on one site <.<
And I mean like the ones should never ever click on on the internet, and it also has a vibe of Facebook in the sense of posting articles to insight rage and arguments shrugsYou could make a new folder for such things where you are just messing around and experiment., and artists go through a sort of 'rebranding' if you will at least once or twice, you will lose some and you will gain some in the process, ultimately balancing out, and I have come to the conclusion that rather than letting one's anxiety get to oneself, that they often feel better once they just do it and start making that shift despite the concerns. Art is thankfully a more flexible media/career where you can kind of do that without much worry in the end, unlike other careers where things sometimes need that more careful planning.
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I use weasyl exclusively to follow artists that draw furries. Good luck with all the things!
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What a trooper! How are you finding the activity on Weasyl? It feels like people gave it an honest try, then decided they had too many websites to upkeep.
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I check the main feed several times a day and I usually have about 50 submissions to look through when I get out of bed and another 50-75 when I check at the end of the work day. I check before I go to bed and there's usually 20-30 submissions.
I've only been following artists that I find on the front page feed, and only artists with NSFW or smut in their galleries. If I see something on the front page NSFW that passes my keywords filters (no MLP, no scat, no cub, no diapers, etc) I typically add the artist. Been doing that for about three years so usually every time I log in there's enough content for me to check out in 15 minutes or so.
I am following 326 users but I think less than half of them post regularly. There are probably a dozen artists (like
yawg,
ficus,
simonov, etc) that must be part machine because they post several times a day almost every day and those dozen artists together make up around a quarter but sometimes almost half of the content I see.
Maybe 20 of the artists i follow gave me their weasyl usernames so I could follow them after I gave up on the-other-furry-art-site-that-shall-not-be-named.
More than a handful of the users I follow use a Chrome extension to post to Weasyl simultaneously with other furry art sites and never see the faves/comments/notes contributed by Weasyl users.
Maybe a dozen artists each year make a journal post saying they're sorry but they're going back to the-other-furry-art-site-that-shall-not-be-named and then leave their accounts dormant. But I usually follow a couple new artists a week so from my totally anecdotal evidence I'd say Weasyl is growing, not shrinking.
I think the-other-furry-art-site-that-shall-not-be-named is awful and run by criminals and/or sociopaths. I think Weasyl is the best furry art site on the web.
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That's good to hear! I kinda suck at upkeeping any site though :P
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Regardless I'm glad you're here
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I have the opposite problem because I try looking through Weasyl and I rarely find artists to watch, but then I am also very picky about what I like, because I enjoy more semi-realistic styles, with some exceptions, and I rarely find stuff here I want to fave, unless it is from an artist that used to be on FA or cross post.
Also, the people who run FA are not as bad as the people who used to run the now non-existent convention RMFC [if you didn't catch wind of that, those people were literally corrupt and likely sovereign citizens, so yeah, all things with context]
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I wish ya luck with figuring out your way through the challenges of changing direction with your business approach. Definitely isn't an easy pathway most of the time especially when it comes to actually thinking up of all possible options, but it seems like you've a direction, so that's good to hear!
Weasyl in general has enough activity for me to drop on by with frequency, however there's not a ton of social activity around. Most of the time notifications I get are just the ones that notify of an artist streaming -- it's a little disheartening, but it's not enough to get me to stop using the site.
With regards to sites I focus on:
FA - It's where most artists open up commissions.Oddly enough it has the most detailed search, if only more artists would properly tag their stuff. Also, it needs a blacklist like the other sites.
Weasyl - I like its layout and has a larger quantity of active artists from FA than other sites. Also has tagging rules, which is greatly appreciated.
IB - I like its features and layout the best. Weasyl's main leg up on it is the 'F' key to favorite things, which makes it easy to mob through a lot of submissions at once.
Twitter & Tumblr are good for just catching up on what some folks are doing, but they're not good sources of consistent uploads due to the nature of the Home and Dashboard respectively.For uploading stuff I've gotten I usually keep up with the first trio of sites above by using PostyBirb, which supports multi-site and bulk uploads when desired.
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Ooooo, I've been using Furry Multiuploader, but PostyBirb has almost double the sites. Thanks a lot for the discovery! ^-^
Socializing on gallery sites is super hard TBH, but weasyl is a lot more receptive to journal discussions which I love- I just feel super embarrassed whenever I post a journal to FA. I'd like to do more streaming for socializing, but it rarely gets very talkative in my streams :P-
Sure thing! Hopefully if more folks pick up the tool over time, slowly yet surely some folks will revive their galleries!
I do agree with the socialization on galleries -- it does often feel like shouting into the void for folks who are following and on the flip-side the flood of comments makes it hard to have just one conversation! The size of the active Weasyl community does seem to help with garnering responses most of the time.
As for streaming, it's hard to get folks to be talkative, however it seems to work quite nicely when you've got at least the host, and maybe one or two people who's willing to at least greet everyone. It helps loosen everyone up to at least chat among one another!
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I am still around and have enjoyed your works for a few years now. I spend most of my time on Furaffinity, and do use Tumblr as my main social media site. Facebook and Twitter are too much to keep up with, most because I wouldn't have anything to post, my life is pretty boring, and I don't like the idea of sharing my personal life with the rest of the net.
I know I am just an art amateur/hobbyist, but much like you trying to do commissions can be hard, and I haven't really made a push to try and make any sort of career from it like other artists have, but maybe taking a step back from trying to do it as work may help? IDK, I am not you, but maybe having a day job and just doing art as a hobby will free you up to do more of what you want to do with art?
But I hope you figure things out, regardless of what you decide to do, because I would love to see more work from you.