Let's just put it this way... if you're ever given the option of having a tooth crowned or extracted, an extraction costs about $1000 less, and doesn't run the risk of leaving you in pain for months and costing thousands of dollars and a couple of other teeth before the dentist finally figures out they did the crown wrong--and then tries to upsell you on having a root canal done, and charging you for it even though they botched the crown job in the first place... and then they rushed/pressured me into paying in advance for dentures, instead of just letting me have said botched crown job extracted and letting me think about it afterward.
Had I just stuck to my guns and had them pull that damn tooth back in February instead of letting them upsell me on getting it crowned, I might just be missing two of my teeth instead of four right now, and saved a few grand, and not spent months with it feeling like someone was stabbing me between the teeth with an ice pick every time I tried to eat.

That's enough oversharing of my personal problems, though. I really don't like to talk about my personal life out in the open like this, and it seems really out-of-place in the publicly visible comment section of a drawing of a skunk monster.

I do appreciate the gift, though! Don't think for a second that I don't appreciate the help, I just wish I could do something in return. You don't really have any characters or anything I could surprise you with gift art of in return or anything, I suppose the best I could offer is more art of Angelo once I have more ideas for scenes to draw him in.

The diaper stuff... I guess you can't choose your kinks? When I first drew a diaper on a critter like that back in 2005, it was that pudgy dopey hyena kid Sawyer, in the Stoopid Outfit and sitting on a stool in the corner with a dunce cap on. It was entirely for comedic reasons, I guess the fact that I watched a lot of older cartoons like Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry growing up made me just register it as "cartoon humor" rather than "fetish fuel" because I think we all remember Junior Bear being (very likely) a dopey adult but waddling around in a diaper, what we might nowadays call a "manchild". Later on I did it with a couple different adult characters, same sort of idea. I honestly had no idea it was a fetish until I started posting to DeviantArt a decade ago and started getting attention from some rather interesting people...
Anyways, for me it's about the silliness and embarrassment and awkwardness and whatnot--and that actually seems to put me at odds with a lot of the other diaper people that despite the fact that I'd love to be a fat dopey donkey waddling around in a big dopey diaper and a shirt that labels me as a jackass (because that's a terrible pun and I love it), I don't find anything attractive about the idea of packing said diaper with manure and wallowing in it for hours.

Oh, don't worry, I'm not offended by the label, I just don't know if it truly fits me so I avoid self-identifying as "furry". I think there's a bit of a Catch-22 present with the label, as there's quite the negative stigma surrounding said label that in turn discourages more "casual" types from adopting it, which in turn leaves it the sole domain of the seedier aspects of the fandom and further deters more casual folks from getting involved... sort of a vicious cycle there I guess. I'm here because I like drawing cartoon animals and occasionally they're a bit risque and suggestive, but again, that's because I grew up in the 1990s when all the cartoons had talking animals in them, be that the current (at that time) shows like DuckTales or TaleSpin or Rescue Rangers, or the old reruns of Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry.
That, and as fun as it might be to semi-ironically put on some costume ears and a tail on any day other than October 31st, I can't say I have any real active desire to do so, nor do I want to attend any conventions.

I still think you should develop some sort of character, though. Even if you don't draw them, some sort of visual description and biography is a good start. Doesn't have to be a dog, either--I know Baby's First Fursona is typically a fox or wolf but that's not mandatory.

I quite enjoyed DeviantArt for the better part of a decade, despite its ups and downs and drama at times and its negative stigma and weird content. I found it to be no different than something like YouTube in that regard, anything built to showcase content made by users is going to attract some strange users with strange tastes and ideas and that just comes with the territory. I loved just how diverse the content and community was there, how someone like me doodling cartoon animals in colorful underwear could find and follow photographers that specialized in animals or mushrooms.
I just find Eclipse to not work well for me on a technical level, I could adapt to a visual overhaul (some of which I actually do like, like the bigger thumbnails) but I just find that basic elements of the site either don't work well for me, or don't work well at all. I get lots of lag and things failing to load or respond properly, and I find the complete removal of the category system makes browsing all but impossible (their search engine also seems to be designed improperly and lack filter settings), and they're leaning too heavily on recommendation algorithms at times, and "what's popular" at others, when I may just want to browse what's new in "animal photography". You can't slap a Lamborghini body kit onto a broken-down Chevy Cavalier and expect me to want to drive that no matter how nice it might look at first glance!

As for the "sign-in required to view" thing... It's hard to really articulate, and the same thing can theoretically be achieved by setting pieces as "mature", but imagine you might have people in your real life that you don't want seeing certain things you post. Coworkers, friends, family, potential new employers, what have you... While hardly worthy of a mature rating, and it's something that was commonplace in a lot of cartoons I watched growing up, I'm not sure I'd want my coworkers to punch my name into Google and find art galleries full of half-skunk manchildren prancing around in diapers and thicc fox girls and gay deer boys showing off their big booties in colorful underwear. They think I'm weird enough as it is, I might not want every picture of Buck flaunting his bulls-eye or Chance Whitefang with his pants around his ankles being visible if they find my page... and if they have to sign in to see it, well, that means they have a DeviantArt/FurAffinity/Weasyl account so their judgement is null and void!