So I decided to officially take up commisions, especially since, I want to help my boyfriend move to VA or at least get him a new laptop since his sister broke his mom's which he was using after his burnt out.

So yeah, here are the prices, all of which go through PayPal:

Sketches:
Bust: $7.50
additional character +$2.50
Full Body $12
Full Body w/ Background $16
additional character +$5

Full Color:
Headshot/Icon: $5
Bust: $10
additional character +$5
Full Body $20
Full Body w/ Background $35
additional character +$7.50

And for those of you who don't think that's cheap enough, think of it this way minimum wage in VA is something around $6/hour. That goes double for all you artists out there who sell yourself short. (If you're curious I'm charging about $10/hour with a few discounts for extra characters)

I have decided not to do any additional fees for complex scenes/poses, because I need to practice, but they will be slower to be completed and may be pushed back in the queue in favor of a faster drawing.

Additionally I will evenually be offering 3-D commisions, but not until after I've finished something of my own to show you guys.

Anyway send me a note stating what you want and any refs.

Also here's a really good set of guidlines for commisioning a piece that'd be useful for anyone you commision as well: [link]

Oh and one last side note, if you think I'm worth commisioning but don't have the money or jsut don't commision just spread the word. That's all I ask.



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So as some of you may or may not know I have an account on Fur Afiinity that is more or less the same stuff as I put here so I decided to compare my statistics on both sites and draw conclusions as to what the differences mean. Now granted I've had this one since Sept 2005 and FA since Feb 2006

Pageviews
First up is pageviews since it's kind of a pointless thing, since you don't have to get pageviews for people to see your art

dA: 15,500 FA: 2,900

So for starters that's a huge difference especially for having only the dA account for five additional months, I can't really say much right now, but I'll come back to it.

Watchers
Now here's an actually important number that's good for judging your self worth on the internet, the number of watchers

dA: 54 FA: 193

Again we have a huge difference this time in the reverse, but it make's sense since I'm predominatly a furry artist and on FA it is a furry community, I also have at least 15 to 20 watchers here who I knew before they found my dA, so I'm relatively unpopular here, according to watches. But as a side note I've got far more watchers here who have become friends with me than on FA, hell I met my boyfriend through this site. Which brings me to:

Comments
What I really enjoy is striking up convos in comments on my pieces, or at least get compliments, though critiques would be nice but no one gives me those, anyway here's the number of comments I recieved on deviations.

dA: 1050 FA: 480

And now for journals (well with in the last few journal posts that is, I'll go with 7)

dA: 65 FA: 10

Ok well half the comments are usually mine, I'm well aware of that, but this doesn't really surprise me all that much, FA's sense of community seems to be lacking majorly, hell I will admit that my last seven or so FA journals were kind of suckish since I've come to expect no one to read it, I didn't even post a journal about my break-up with Rube, which if you haven't noticed is over now. But ayway the submission comments are ok, a bit pathetic on the FA side, but passable.

Favs
And finally how I judge how successful a piece is, and that's by the number of favs it gets, generally within the first few minutes, yes I know I'm a pathetic attention whore who judges his self worth on wether people like my artwork enough to fav it en masse

dA: 320 FA: 444

This is probably the most even statistic there is, which is surprising considering the ratio of watchers and that FA's a furry community, but I suppose my art over there has to compete with porn so I guess I'll give them that.

Submission Views
I would've had this but FA doesn't keep global track of it and I didn't want to count them all

So my final analysis is

deviantArt
Based on the pageveiws ratio I'd say that here on dA people are more likely to look through your gallery after finding your artwork, thus going through the main age in the process, additionally dA is prone to people starting convos in journals and submissions. Overall the people are a good community.

Fur Affintiy
As for FA I'd say the people are the fav and run type, they'll browse, see something they like and fav it, maybe check the person's gallery and watch them, then rarely going back to that gallery, with the exception of faving pieces from thier watch list, which circumnavigates the main page, thus the low pageview count. I'd say this behavior is definatly a detraction to the sense of community, for me at least there is none even if it is a furry website and it's guaranteed that eveyone there will have two things in common, art and the furry fandom.

In conclusion it'd be nice to get a higher sample size to see if what I've observed is true or just me, but that's just my inner science dork talking.



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Me and my family's a bit strapped for cash so my folks want me to work and get at least $200 a month and I'm not too optimistic about getting one, the odds are against me.

But anyway I was thinking about offering commisions. The only problem being is not many people go for them butI haven't advertised them in a long time, though I guess there's one other problem, I don't know how fast I can get them done.

So here's the question is anyone willing to buy some commisions adult or clean with proces ranging from say $25 to $40 at most for a basic thing with one or two characters and simple poses. If enough people say yes I'll set up a trial to see how fast I can do them and if the prices are fair, though I know a lot of people undersell themselves and since I actually need the money I'm trying not to do that but at the same time I'm still trying to make it a good deal, anyway, feed back would be awesome.



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And for those who don't check my WoTA, check out this awesome drawing of Thad, it rocks



Done by DarkIceWolf, I commisioned it awhile back, but his comp died, anyway, it's awesome and so is he

And as a bonus check out this cute otter



Done by the awesome Rick Griffen, watch him bishes, for winnning second place in his raffle to help out his friend, yush that's me, and it's also gonna mark my otter form being my main fursona

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I guess some of you knew this, and some didn't, but since March 15th where boyfriends. It started with him really loving me and me being unsure, mostly cause of my last relationship. That changed about half way in when I did soemthing stupuid and he wanted to leave me, I essentially borke out in tears and realized that I really did love him, granted it was only about a half a day we were split up, he had decided to go back to his ex Alan, but when he found out that I was getting emotional and that I really did love him, he took me back, saying that what he wanted from me was more compasion and emotion.

So a day before our one month anniversary, he was going through a lot of crap at home, his dad was a general dick and his parents where spliting up, he was stressed from worrying about his grades and worried if he would graduate or not, and also feeling guilty cause he had never called it off with Alan when he took me back and didn't like the thought of being guilty, he wanted to split off for awhile and be single, but soon realized that he couldn't abandon me because his life was sucking.

So fastforward to yesterday, things to me had been going well relationship wise, Rube was still a bit depressed and had just spent the whole weekend working on projects so he could graduate. I was so excited to be able to talk to him again after the weekend, and not to mention I had jsut gotten out of a slight depression myself. But anyway that night he was being rather quiet and I got a message from my friend telling me that he didn't think our relationship was working. It completely threw me for a loop, then Ruben went and told me he wanted to break up, and that he didn't love me anymore. I was pretty much heartbroken, but I wanted what was best for him and I wanted him to be happy. I was later told that he actually had never even broken it with Alan from the begining, he didn't even tell his mom that we were dating. I wasn't mad, didn't really know what to feel and I thought I was going to be ok.

So yeah that night, another friend and I were talknig and rping and he jokingly stuck a cherry in my mouth when I yawned and I went and popped it jokingly, and sexual innuedo aside that's when it hit me, I couldn't share my first anything with Ruben, it crushed me. So I went to bed hugging my pillow and barely got any sleep. This morning I was feeling like crap, and some more of my friend consoled me, and I started to feel ok again. So I went and turned in my final sound project and came back and watched tv getting forlorn again, then Ruben came on MSN, and we got to talking.

I asked him what he liked about Alan, and he told me pretty much what I am save for Alan's a fox and I'm an otter. Eventually he told me that he was in love with Alan and of course had fallen out of it with me, and that there wasn't a future for us. I had to go to my room at that point. So after a lot of talking, breaking down, sobbing, hiding myself in the closet holding my pillow and wrapped in my blanket, and generally just going through all the stages of grieving, I started to feel ok and got down to even being somewhat ok with Alan visiting him in a month. It also ended up finding out that a big factor for me and Ruben was the distance, and him getting accepted into VCU would've made a big difference but he never got an application in, and well yeah I started to feel a bit better.

So I went and showered, came back and told Ruben that if Alan did anything he'd have to answer to me and went to go get this off my chest by writing a journal about it, but even as I do this I can kinda feel myself sliping back into not ok territory, so yeah I'm going to be a big emotional roller coaster, and I still really love Ruben dispite all the heartbreak. And yeah . . ,

EDIT
Heh, before I even got to respond to any comments I bounced out, that's cause I'm gonna fight to get the spark back, I realized that after the first break up I made some changes I thought they were all good, but some of them may not have been, in that I started being way more snuggly and cute instead of tough and boyish, so I'm gonna try going back to that and see if I can rekindle Ruben's love. And hey it can't hurt to try. And they always say if you really want something you've got to work for it.

EDIT 2
So I found out why he wasn't in love anymore, in part it was the distance, but also it was that I had stopped being the fun guy he fell in love with. So in a way he pretty much gave me a good reason to get over him, by getting back to being his Big Bro, in time maybe everything will patch up. Of course in the mean time I'm going to deal with the conflict of wanting Ruben to be happy and wanting my happiness with him, so it's gonna be rough, I'm just glad Ruben's a great guy and I'm sure he'll help me through it. And we'll see if fate brings us back together in someway, then that'll be cool, well ok totally awesome, but I'll try and accept that, that might not happen.

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