Info, Plans and a couple Questions
Posted 5 years agoG'day.
As a follow up to my previous journal, my arms and neck have healed up fine. I physically feel 100%. Am good. Sadly though, I've lost a lot of sleep during that healing. Very little commission work has been done as a result. You win some, you lose some.
My plan at the moment is to turn to some of the sketch commissions I have. I've mostly been working on coloured stuff and it's a little taxing for me to be so meticulous. I'd like to work on some simpler things and clean out some more before returning to the coloured pieces in the works.
I'd like to crush what I have left over the next week or two. Afterwards, I'd like to have a small consistent roll of commissions now that I know my limits better so I can work on my 3D stuff more. I happen to have a friend that's been giving me a hand with working out some anatomy and providing some references to work with, so I've been really keen to do some more modelling/sculpting but I won't dedicate my time to it while I still have a queue of commissions.
There's a few things I have been considering for years now. I feel I'm a bit more flexible now though, so I figured I might put this out there to all who watch me.
Would you be interested in seeing all of the artwork I have had done for me posted to my gallery?
I tend to try and limit what goes into my gallery to be only the work I've made, under the mentality that if I were to gain watchers, it would be specifically for what I have made. I wasn't quite comfortable with the idea of people watching me on the basis of something I am not or something I did not produce. Now, I... don't really care anymore about that, but it's quite a backlog to go through. Thoughts?
To compound on that, I found myself at a point trading for or adopting characters from others quite a while back. A lot of them I do not have the original artists links for and some of the original people who sold/traded me the characters have vanished under a mountain of name/website changes. I've already uploaded a few of the ones I value, but I'd enjoy posting more to fill out my gallery and make some variety on my page, for future commissions, trades, etc to pick through.
Would anyone care to see these characters and what would be the best way to go about posting the ones I do not have the artist's name for?
As a follow up to my previous journal, my arms and neck have healed up fine. I physically feel 100%. Am good. Sadly though, I've lost a lot of sleep during that healing. Very little commission work has been done as a result. You win some, you lose some.
My plan at the moment is to turn to some of the sketch commissions I have. I've mostly been working on coloured stuff and it's a little taxing for me to be so meticulous. I'd like to work on some simpler things and clean out some more before returning to the coloured pieces in the works.
I'd like to crush what I have left over the next week or two. Afterwards, I'd like to have a small consistent roll of commissions now that I know my limits better so I can work on my 3D stuff more. I happen to have a friend that's been giving me a hand with working out some anatomy and providing some references to work with, so I've been really keen to do some more modelling/sculpting but I won't dedicate my time to it while I still have a queue of commissions.
There's a few things I have been considering for years now. I feel I'm a bit more flexible now though, so I figured I might put this out there to all who watch me.
Would you be interested in seeing all of the artwork I have had done for me posted to my gallery?
I tend to try and limit what goes into my gallery to be only the work I've made, under the mentality that if I were to gain watchers, it would be specifically for what I have made. I wasn't quite comfortable with the idea of people watching me on the basis of something I am not or something I did not produce. Now, I... don't really care anymore about that, but it's quite a backlog to go through. Thoughts?
To compound on that, I found myself at a point trading for or adopting characters from others quite a while back. A lot of them I do not have the original artists links for and some of the original people who sold/traded me the characters have vanished under a mountain of name/website changes. I've already uploaded a few of the ones I value, but I'd enjoy posting more to fill out my gallery and make some variety on my page, for future commissions, trades, etc to pick through.
Would anyone care to see these characters and what would be the best way to go about posting the ones I do not have the artist's name for?
A quick heads up.
Posted 5 years agoG'day
So, I'unno how this happened, but last week I slept bad or something? So bad that when I woke up, I was in some agonising pain. My shoulders and neck were so stiff and sore I couldn't turn my head without losing my breath from the pain.
Needless to say, commission work has stopped as I can't move my arms all too well and pain sets in quickly.
I will resume commission work as I improve, but for the time being I need to relax my arms and neck.
So, I'unno how this happened, but last week I slept bad or something? So bad that when I woke up, I was in some agonising pain. My shoulders and neck were so stiff and sore I couldn't turn my head without losing my breath from the pain.
Needless to say, commission work has stopped as I can't move my arms all too well and pain sets in quickly.
I will resume commission work as I improve, but for the time being I need to relax my arms and neck.
My thoughts and experiences with Vore
Posted 5 years agoI'd like to preface everything you'll read in this journal with the following: I literally don't care what you are or aren't into. You do you, I'll do me. I'm not attempting to shame anyone, degrade anyone and I don't hold anything against or have a lesser opinion of anyone that has an interest in something I don't. As far as I'm concerned, as long as whatever you're into or doing isn't forced on me or others, harms no one and is done with respect towards other fandom members, you're all good in my books.
This is a big read. Feel free to skip to the bottom for a tl;dr of the points I believe worth summarising.
So, I get this question often enough or get put into situations unwittingly where the interests of myself and another party don't align to warrant me sharing my thoughts, but as it stands, I've run into a couple of people who have taken issues with a subject and movement that's been going on since before I became involved in this fandom, which was a bit more than a decade ago. In fact, I think one of the first few things I ran into when I joined this fandom was people trying to shame me for being into vore, but they were wholly rude, disrespectful and entirely trying to make people feel like shit, but just as quickly vanished and as far as I'm aware have never been heard of again. Most of you into vore or have been around people who are probably know what I'm talking about.
fAtAl VoRe Is MuRdEr AnD yOu ArE eViL
Someone I once was in contact with was a bit too personally involved within the moralities of the fantasy worlds their characters existed in, couldn't separate reality from fantasy. They flipped out at the smallest implications that someone might be "bad" in some way. Out of respect for them, those around them avoided doing anything that would upset them. Recently, I found out they've become entirely belligerent to any discussion around the topics as anyone who has something to say against their opinions means you're scum, not worth being treated as humans and should be shipped off to some gulag. I'm not going to name some of the silly shit they considered evil and beyond redemption because it might be enough to identify them beyond the scope of people who have been directly involved in them, but suffice it to say, a character's body proportions were enough to qualify for the shit-list and no argument to the contrary, regardless how well reasoned, was enough to pull you off that list of "worse than Hitler and every paedophile on the planet combined."
An extreme case of an incredibly emotional someone unreasonably attached to fictional ideas they don't own becoming entirely unhinged because they never received a reality check in the mail and only being able to see in black and white. bcus gurgl vor bad so u bad. The literal embodiment of that argument above with zero tolerance and insight into anything beyond that. Funnily enough, I know this particular person plays videogames where killing people is the objective and it's designed as the core gameplay mechanic and marketed as fun. Guess this person is an evil murderer then.
On the other hand, a close friend of mine going through some tough times in life, facing the concepts of mortality directly has had them come to some realisations about what they've been involved with within the fandom and the vore community. What they once turned a blind eye to for the fun and happiness it brought those they were around is now causing them distress and subsequently, they've packed up and left FA and other websites. Their morality and concept of mortality weighing heavily on their mind, they can't be around a subsection of the fandom that glorifies the wanton disregard of life in the build up and wake of sexual gratification or mindless self indulgence.
A case of someone's real life and anxieties taking a heavy toll on their psyche, being unable to put aside the deeper implicit concepts of the things they've said, done, been involved with and associated with, and with the purest intentions and as much respect as they can, have stepped away from an environment that is damaging to them while attempting to cause as little harm or offence to others as possible.
Why tell me this?
I am not going to argue which is right and which is wrong. At best, an intelligent discussion arises in the comments and maybe something fruitful comes of it but that's not the intention of this journal. At worst, shit hits the fan and people start throwing death threats at each other like shit-heads over something not intended to be the point of this journal. I bring these situations up as a way to show the kind of shit-show this subject is and has been for a long time. Maybe you haven't paid attention to it, maybe you're relatively new and are under the idea that this is recent or at worst just a couple of people having a loud disagreement like your neighbours do at least once a week. It's here for relativity and context.
It's not something you see often. Most of us have accepted the notion of "different strokes for different folks" and do their own thing. It just so happens that on the odd occasion, someone spits the dummy, throws their toys out of the stroller and makes a huge scene over something we, as a fandom, have swept under a rug and written off as "it's just fantasy bro", and some going as far as "don't kink shame". And to that end, the situation dies with the source of the spat-attack falling silent and going off to their own corner. An era of peace befalls the community until the next actual proper problematic person rolls up on news articles for doing some heinous horrible shit to someone/something else.
An ongoing argument that flares up, stirs some shit and then dies down as fast as it ignited. We all move on or brood on our own in tiny echo chambers.
Okay, so, where do you stand then?
Right. Ramblings. I apologise. I don't often get to share my thoughts in length so I prattle. Solid the old-lady and his never ending stories.
I like vore. Endo is great, so is digestion. I love them strugglin' bulges, imprints and detailed shapes as well as rough and vague lumps rolling about a round tum. I love the weight of a character spending days or weeks just hanging off someone's waist, and the slow, gradual digestion until that weight of prey comes in the form of thighs, hips, tum and arse pudge. I love the concept of trophies and momento of good times and good friends had, kept around for the sentimentality or the gloating. Clothing and accessory remains or skeletal, all float my boat and I bet I'm not the only one reading this is salivating at those ideas, being either the one getting to swallow someone or the one subjected to another's digestive system, or kinkier places to put or be put.
But here's the catch, for me.
Context matters. Context matters a lot to me for any character stuff, really. Context, characterisation, rationality and things just making some form of sense all play the biggest part in any character artwork, drawn, written or otherwise. And this is where I seem to differ from those I meet and see, and have had issues with people in the past.
If your character is selfish, someone who revels in eating people against their will, torments them for it, gloats about it to everyone and constantly treats others as food-yet-to-be-eaten, that's your call. That's for you and your interest groups, certainly. To me, you've portrayed this character as a horrible person and as such I do not enjoy seeing them happy and I cannot enjoy anything of them. You can get the best artists involved to write/draw this character as best as possible with all the intricacies and details of vore I love, but as long as the character remains a horrible person, you'll get nothing but a compliment for the artist's great attention to detail and quality.
I'll say it again. You do you. I know people get off to that and love characters who don't love them or others as anything more than free food/sex, I completely understand the appeal behind characters like that. I do not care if you like it, it's just not my cup of tea and I'm not interested. No shaming here, just callin' it like it is.
Story time again.
One memorable interaction I had was with someone who only wanted their characters to be shown as "better than everyone around them". Small roleplay interactions were rife with unwarranted displays of dominance and superiority and every artistic depiction of the characters had a focus on being bigger and better than others or destroying those that were a threat to their vanity and ego. When asked what I think of their characters, I responded with stating the obvious; they seem to be horribly narcissistic, ego driven murderers out for their own gain and using themselves as implicit threats against people they call their friends, I think they're horrible people. Not to my surprise, but this insulted and offended them that I dare think that way about their gods. But to my surprise, they couldn't wrap their head around the concept "if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, etc" and that they provided all the characteristics that I identified.
This person later apologised for their actions, directly acknowledging what they did and took responsibility for their misdeeds, misunderstandings and any offence given. Though all is and we have moved on, this stands as an example of something that I'm talking about here. I don't care about how your character looks, I care about how they act. If they act like an arse, don't be offended when someone points that out. If you made your character that way, just own it? I don't care if they are an arse, I don't care if they rape people all day. That's your prerogative, don't get pissy when it's pointed out that what they do is bad and makes them look bad after you ask for an opinion on your character.
Please get back to the point Solid this hurts.
Sorry.
Vore, for me, is something I want to make sense. I feel that a lot of stories and characters fall apart when the reasoning behind their actions, attitudes and perceptions are irrational, unreasonable or have no consequences despite how poorly things play out. Vore is a fantasy fetish, I get that. It doesn't have to make sense because it doesn't make sense to begin with. For me, my problem is that it works so much better when it does make sense, or I can at least believe that whatever is happening can make sense. How does Stacy keep eating the same couple of friends all the time? Why is Gary over there still in this night club after eating half the patrons without security tazing the fuck out of him? Why is this big wolfo walking around the streets with a gut full of two families he's clearly eaten, struggling for release and digesting and the worst he's getting is some averted gazes? Regardless if it's some small character tid-bits like a character being able to reform themselves/others or some world lore that explains why these things happen and why people act the way they do and get away with it, it's so much easier for me to get invested. None of those examples are made to shame people or anything like that, they're just serving as an example of the questions that come to mind that I ask when seeing some things. I don't expect everyone to write up explanations of the context behind every image drawn. That's a bit much to ask for a request I'm not making.
No pun intended, but vore makes a lot more sense to me when there's weight to it. Having a consequence to eating someone, whether social consequence or legal consequence, or just being a huge inconvenience, is fantastic to me. It makes interactions with others so much more interesting and involving with the characters. I just love seeing how it all works. I love seeing characters dealing with a choice they made. Seeing a character trying to go about their day with a full gut, having some troubles here and there, maybe running into people who are weirded out or disgusted by it, or maybe running into some people who are really enamoured and fascinated by it, seeing how a character interacts with the world and how the world interacts with them while someone snoozes or churns down inside them is a top notch concept I don't see explored enough.
Lastly, I think the biggest impacting factor is... how relevant it is to me.
Ultimately, I don't care what anyone else likes in regards to vore. You do you. These are just what interests me and what I find most compelling and inviting within the subject of vore. Again, really, again, I'm not saying any of this to criticise the quality or content of what the fandom or individuals within the fandom treat as normal, acceptable, appealing, etc. You enjoy the fetishes you have, I literally don't look at it if it's not my thing, I don't care if it is your thing, your fetish is a fetish and so long as it is a fetish, the only thing that influences what I think and how I feel about you is how you act as a person.
To clarify this last point, the biggest impacting factor in regards to vore content to me is, if it involves my characters and/or my friend's characters.
I love hearing from friends how their characters work, both in terms of standard mental and biological functions when relating to vore and otherwise and how they generally go about their time around others or in otherwise "public" settings. I love working alongside a friend to help improve how our characters relate to each others and their own worlds, fleshing things out to better ground our characters and forming some bonds and relationships between our characters.
But when it's people I don't know, characters I don't know, doing things I recognise without context I understand, I just... shrug. Good artwork, nicely done, excellent form, 8-9/10 would commission to get something for myself or a friend, neat character designs too but not a single thought put into that context and those characters because I don't have any right to insert my opinions on someone else's kinks, desires and perceptions of what they enjoy and with whom. That doesn't mean I won't want to know you or that I do not care about what you have to show. I am always, always interested in hearing how things work with your characters regardless how close we actually are, or not. If we just meet and I don't know you, I am more than happy to talk with you about your characters and how things work. If we just met but we've seen a lot of each other, the exact same thing goes, more than happy to talk.
I am always interested in learning about how your characters work and function in whatever world they exist in. Just, until I get the opportunity to learn, I probably won't pay much interest besides observing the quality of the artwork submitted.
Could I get a tl;dr please?
In no particular order:
I can draw the lines between fantasy and reality.
I don't believe someone's interests in a thing define who they are as a person.
Listen to a person and be open to reason.
I am not condemning you for having a different interest, I know so little about you that doing so is a shallow, dumb move.
I respect everyone's personal interests in vore and kinks in general, you do you.
My preferences are different to yours, that doesn't mean I hate you.
I am trying to be respectful please be patient I am a dragon.
I don't enjoy vore that doesn't have a context that makes sense.
I don't enjoy vore that glorifies characters that are, by and large, mean spirited and cruel for no real reason. I don't like big meanies.
I greatly prefer vore with reasonable context.
I greatly enjoy vore with some degree of consequence and continuity, justifications and reasoning to explain the vore.
I greatly prefer vore scenarios with my own characters or characters owned by friends.
I like endo as much as I like digestion and fatal vore, the context behind them and characters involved is more important to me than the acts themselves.
Anecdotes.
Anything else to add?
One thing, I suppose.
The one thing that does kinda bother me, which might be more of a personal note but... probably could reach into the concept of the community pushing things they deem as acceptable setting negative standards that leave impressions on newcomers to the community or setting a standard to be accepting of bad behaviours, but I digress.
Sometimes, I have people approach me, say they're big fans of my work and my characters. That makes me feel happy. But then it's followed up with something along the lines of "I would love Solid/Ludash/your character to dehumanise and eat me and be all selfish and gloat about how pathetic I am as a person that my best use of existing is being their food". And that makes me sad. I... don't believe I've given enough explicit depictions of any of my characters acting in that manner to warrant that depiction of them, so when that happens I feel kinda... well, at best, misunderstood or projected on, at worst that I've failed to depict my characters accurately or stained their characterisations in all the free time drawings I've made. It's disheartening to see my characterisation cast aside for some stereotypical dominant personality, at the very least, and that kind of situation is a primary cause for some of my bigger dry-spells.
Alright, I think I'm done. I'm terrible at being cohesive, I just type like I think.
Once more, I mean no offence. We don't see eye-to-eye about our interests and what makes them appealing, sure thing, I completely understand that. But in no way am I reprimanding you for having a difference of opinion and interest or what not, at least I am very much hoping and intending that I haven't done that. I speak/type loosely, either absent-mindedly over severely over thinking what to say. I mean zero offence if any is taken.
These are simply my thoughts and experiences as they are.
I welcome any and all questions and comments, not really keen for shit memes though.
This is a big read. Feel free to skip to the bottom for a tl;dr of the points I believe worth summarising.
So, I get this question often enough or get put into situations unwittingly where the interests of myself and another party don't align to warrant me sharing my thoughts, but as it stands, I've run into a couple of people who have taken issues with a subject and movement that's been going on since before I became involved in this fandom, which was a bit more than a decade ago. In fact, I think one of the first few things I ran into when I joined this fandom was people trying to shame me for being into vore, but they were wholly rude, disrespectful and entirely trying to make people feel like shit, but just as quickly vanished and as far as I'm aware have never been heard of again. Most of you into vore or have been around people who are probably know what I'm talking about.
fAtAl VoRe Is MuRdEr AnD yOu ArE eViL
Someone I once was in contact with was a bit too personally involved within the moralities of the fantasy worlds their characters existed in, couldn't separate reality from fantasy. They flipped out at the smallest implications that someone might be "bad" in some way. Out of respect for them, those around them avoided doing anything that would upset them. Recently, I found out they've become entirely belligerent to any discussion around the topics as anyone who has something to say against their opinions means you're scum, not worth being treated as humans and should be shipped off to some gulag. I'm not going to name some of the silly shit they considered evil and beyond redemption because it might be enough to identify them beyond the scope of people who have been directly involved in them, but suffice it to say, a character's body proportions were enough to qualify for the shit-list and no argument to the contrary, regardless how well reasoned, was enough to pull you off that list of "worse than Hitler and every paedophile on the planet combined."
An extreme case of an incredibly emotional someone unreasonably attached to fictional ideas they don't own becoming entirely unhinged because they never received a reality check in the mail and only being able to see in black and white. bcus gurgl vor bad so u bad. The literal embodiment of that argument above with zero tolerance and insight into anything beyond that. Funnily enough, I know this particular person plays videogames where killing people is the objective and it's designed as the core gameplay mechanic and marketed as fun. Guess this person is an evil murderer then.
On the other hand, a close friend of mine going through some tough times in life, facing the concepts of mortality directly has had them come to some realisations about what they've been involved with within the fandom and the vore community. What they once turned a blind eye to for the fun and happiness it brought those they were around is now causing them distress and subsequently, they've packed up and left FA and other websites. Their morality and concept of mortality weighing heavily on their mind, they can't be around a subsection of the fandom that glorifies the wanton disregard of life in the build up and wake of sexual gratification or mindless self indulgence.
A case of someone's real life and anxieties taking a heavy toll on their psyche, being unable to put aside the deeper implicit concepts of the things they've said, done, been involved with and associated with, and with the purest intentions and as much respect as they can, have stepped away from an environment that is damaging to them while attempting to cause as little harm or offence to others as possible.
Why tell me this?
I am not going to argue which is right and which is wrong. At best, an intelligent discussion arises in the comments and maybe something fruitful comes of it but that's not the intention of this journal. At worst, shit hits the fan and people start throwing death threats at each other like shit-heads over something not intended to be the point of this journal. I bring these situations up as a way to show the kind of shit-show this subject is and has been for a long time. Maybe you haven't paid attention to it, maybe you're relatively new and are under the idea that this is recent or at worst just a couple of people having a loud disagreement like your neighbours do at least once a week. It's here for relativity and context.
It's not something you see often. Most of us have accepted the notion of "different strokes for different folks" and do their own thing. It just so happens that on the odd occasion, someone spits the dummy, throws their toys out of the stroller and makes a huge scene over something we, as a fandom, have swept under a rug and written off as "it's just fantasy bro", and some going as far as "don't kink shame". And to that end, the situation dies with the source of the spat-attack falling silent and going off to their own corner. An era of peace befalls the community until the next actual proper problematic person rolls up on news articles for doing some heinous horrible shit to someone/something else.
An ongoing argument that flares up, stirs some shit and then dies down as fast as it ignited. We all move on or brood on our own in tiny echo chambers.
Okay, so, where do you stand then?
Right. Ramblings. I apologise. I don't often get to share my thoughts in length so I prattle. Solid the old-lady and his never ending stories.
I like vore. Endo is great, so is digestion. I love them strugglin' bulges, imprints and detailed shapes as well as rough and vague lumps rolling about a round tum. I love the weight of a character spending days or weeks just hanging off someone's waist, and the slow, gradual digestion until that weight of prey comes in the form of thighs, hips, tum and arse pudge. I love the concept of trophies and momento of good times and good friends had, kept around for the sentimentality or the gloating. Clothing and accessory remains or skeletal, all float my boat and I bet I'm not the only one reading this is salivating at those ideas, being either the one getting to swallow someone or the one subjected to another's digestive system, or kinkier places to put or be put.
But here's the catch, for me.
Context matters. Context matters a lot to me for any character stuff, really. Context, characterisation, rationality and things just making some form of sense all play the biggest part in any character artwork, drawn, written or otherwise. And this is where I seem to differ from those I meet and see, and have had issues with people in the past.
If your character is selfish, someone who revels in eating people against their will, torments them for it, gloats about it to everyone and constantly treats others as food-yet-to-be-eaten, that's your call. That's for you and your interest groups, certainly. To me, you've portrayed this character as a horrible person and as such I do not enjoy seeing them happy and I cannot enjoy anything of them. You can get the best artists involved to write/draw this character as best as possible with all the intricacies and details of vore I love, but as long as the character remains a horrible person, you'll get nothing but a compliment for the artist's great attention to detail and quality.
I'll say it again. You do you. I know people get off to that and love characters who don't love them or others as anything more than free food/sex, I completely understand the appeal behind characters like that. I do not care if you like it, it's just not my cup of tea and I'm not interested. No shaming here, just callin' it like it is.
Story time again.
One memorable interaction I had was with someone who only wanted their characters to be shown as "better than everyone around them". Small roleplay interactions were rife with unwarranted displays of dominance and superiority and every artistic depiction of the characters had a focus on being bigger and better than others or destroying those that were a threat to their vanity and ego. When asked what I think of their characters, I responded with stating the obvious; they seem to be horribly narcissistic, ego driven murderers out for their own gain and using themselves as implicit threats against people they call their friends, I think they're horrible people. Not to my surprise, but this insulted and offended them that I dare think that way about their gods. But to my surprise, they couldn't wrap their head around the concept "if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, etc" and that they provided all the characteristics that I identified.
This person later apologised for their actions, directly acknowledging what they did and took responsibility for their misdeeds, misunderstandings and any offence given. Though all is and we have moved on, this stands as an example of something that I'm talking about here. I don't care about how your character looks, I care about how they act. If they act like an arse, don't be offended when someone points that out. If you made your character that way, just own it? I don't care if they are an arse, I don't care if they rape people all day. That's your prerogative, don't get pissy when it's pointed out that what they do is bad and makes them look bad after you ask for an opinion on your character.
Please get back to the point Solid this hurts.
Sorry.
Vore, for me, is something I want to make sense. I feel that a lot of stories and characters fall apart when the reasoning behind their actions, attitudes and perceptions are irrational, unreasonable or have no consequences despite how poorly things play out. Vore is a fantasy fetish, I get that. It doesn't have to make sense because it doesn't make sense to begin with. For me, my problem is that it works so much better when it does make sense, or I can at least believe that whatever is happening can make sense. How does Stacy keep eating the same couple of friends all the time? Why is Gary over there still in this night club after eating half the patrons without security tazing the fuck out of him? Why is this big wolfo walking around the streets with a gut full of two families he's clearly eaten, struggling for release and digesting and the worst he's getting is some averted gazes? Regardless if it's some small character tid-bits like a character being able to reform themselves/others or some world lore that explains why these things happen and why people act the way they do and get away with it, it's so much easier for me to get invested. None of those examples are made to shame people or anything like that, they're just serving as an example of the questions that come to mind that I ask when seeing some things. I don't expect everyone to write up explanations of the context behind every image drawn. That's a bit much to ask for a request I'm not making.
No pun intended, but vore makes a lot more sense to me when there's weight to it. Having a consequence to eating someone, whether social consequence or legal consequence, or just being a huge inconvenience, is fantastic to me. It makes interactions with others so much more interesting and involving with the characters. I just love seeing how it all works. I love seeing characters dealing with a choice they made. Seeing a character trying to go about their day with a full gut, having some troubles here and there, maybe running into people who are weirded out or disgusted by it, or maybe running into some people who are really enamoured and fascinated by it, seeing how a character interacts with the world and how the world interacts with them while someone snoozes or churns down inside them is a top notch concept I don't see explored enough.
Lastly, I think the biggest impacting factor is... how relevant it is to me.
Ultimately, I don't care what anyone else likes in regards to vore. You do you. These are just what interests me and what I find most compelling and inviting within the subject of vore. Again, really, again, I'm not saying any of this to criticise the quality or content of what the fandom or individuals within the fandom treat as normal, acceptable, appealing, etc. You enjoy the fetishes you have, I literally don't look at it if it's not my thing, I don't care if it is your thing, your fetish is a fetish and so long as it is a fetish, the only thing that influences what I think and how I feel about you is how you act as a person.
To clarify this last point, the biggest impacting factor in regards to vore content to me is, if it involves my characters and/or my friend's characters.
I love hearing from friends how their characters work, both in terms of standard mental and biological functions when relating to vore and otherwise and how they generally go about their time around others or in otherwise "public" settings. I love working alongside a friend to help improve how our characters relate to each others and their own worlds, fleshing things out to better ground our characters and forming some bonds and relationships between our characters.
But when it's people I don't know, characters I don't know, doing things I recognise without context I understand, I just... shrug. Good artwork, nicely done, excellent form, 8-9/10 would commission to get something for myself or a friend, neat character designs too but not a single thought put into that context and those characters because I don't have any right to insert my opinions on someone else's kinks, desires and perceptions of what they enjoy and with whom. That doesn't mean I won't want to know you or that I do not care about what you have to show. I am always, always interested in hearing how things work with your characters regardless how close we actually are, or not. If we just meet and I don't know you, I am more than happy to talk with you about your characters and how things work. If we just met but we've seen a lot of each other, the exact same thing goes, more than happy to talk.
I am always interested in learning about how your characters work and function in whatever world they exist in. Just, until I get the opportunity to learn, I probably won't pay much interest besides observing the quality of the artwork submitted.
Could I get a tl;dr please?
In no particular order:
I can draw the lines between fantasy and reality.
I don't believe someone's interests in a thing define who they are as a person.
Listen to a person and be open to reason.
I am not condemning you for having a different interest, I know so little about you that doing so is a shallow, dumb move.
I respect everyone's personal interests in vore and kinks in general, you do you.
My preferences are different to yours, that doesn't mean I hate you.
I am trying to be respectful please be patient I am a dragon.
I don't enjoy vore that doesn't have a context that makes sense.
I don't enjoy vore that glorifies characters that are, by and large, mean spirited and cruel for no real reason. I don't like big meanies.
I greatly prefer vore with reasonable context.
I greatly enjoy vore with some degree of consequence and continuity, justifications and reasoning to explain the vore.
I greatly prefer vore scenarios with my own characters or characters owned by friends.
I like endo as much as I like digestion and fatal vore, the context behind them and characters involved is more important to me than the acts themselves.
Anecdotes.
Anything else to add?
One thing, I suppose.
The one thing that does kinda bother me, which might be more of a personal note but... probably could reach into the concept of the community pushing things they deem as acceptable setting negative standards that leave impressions on newcomers to the community or setting a standard to be accepting of bad behaviours, but I digress.
Sometimes, I have people approach me, say they're big fans of my work and my characters. That makes me feel happy. But then it's followed up with something along the lines of "I would love Solid/Ludash/your character to dehumanise and eat me and be all selfish and gloat about how pathetic I am as a person that my best use of existing is being their food". And that makes me sad. I... don't believe I've given enough explicit depictions of any of my characters acting in that manner to warrant that depiction of them, so when that happens I feel kinda... well, at best, misunderstood or projected on, at worst that I've failed to depict my characters accurately or stained their characterisations in all the free time drawings I've made. It's disheartening to see my characterisation cast aside for some stereotypical dominant personality, at the very least, and that kind of situation is a primary cause for some of my bigger dry-spells.
Alright, I think I'm done. I'm terrible at being cohesive, I just type like I think.
Once more, I mean no offence. We don't see eye-to-eye about our interests and what makes them appealing, sure thing, I completely understand that. But in no way am I reprimanding you for having a difference of opinion and interest or what not, at least I am very much hoping and intending that I haven't done that. I speak/type loosely, either absent-mindedly over severely over thinking what to say. I mean zero offence if any is taken.
These are simply my thoughts and experiences as they are.
I welcome any and all questions and comments, not really keen for shit memes though.
AMA?
Posted 5 years agoNot expecting anything other than this to get buried by every other journal that gets posted. Buuuuuuuuuuut.
Ask me some questions and I will try to answer them. I am curious what you'd like to know about me, my characters or my thoughts and opinions.
Ask me some questions and I will try to answer them. I am curious what you'd like to know about me, my characters or my thoughts and opinions.
Updates + Commission Info
Posted 5 years agoG'day
January was a bit of an extended party period from bringing in 2020, with a couple of birthdays sprinkled throughout. Was a good time over all. Fun was had and some unexpected and admittedly undeserved sweetness popped up that really put me in a good way.
Then I got sick with something through the entirety of February. It was disgusting. No idea what it was, got myself checked out, blood tested, and then it fucked off from wherever it came from. No clue what happened but here I am, I'm fine now.
A bit late into March to put this up, as I intended to do so at the beginning of March, but...
I am still open for commissions. It has not been going as smoothly on my end, but I have been hankering to take on more work. For now, I will leave my prices in this journal and I will sometime over the week work on putting up some more appealing graphical displays of my pricing and fill out my commission info tab. Hit me up via note or comment below if there's anything you want and we'll get to it.
As always, my prices are negotiable within reason, being that I want you to be happy with what you get for what you pay and I want to be happy with what I get for what I put in.
Base Prices
Sketches: $10USD
Coloured Sketch: $20USD
Lines: $30USD
Lines and Flat Colour: $40USD
Full Colour w/ Shading: $50USD
Modifiers
Additional Characters : +50% of base price per character
Simple Background : +50% of base price
Detailed Background : +75% of base price
Complex Designs : +25% of base price per complex element (eg, complex character markings, complex backgrounds, complex objects, etc)
January was a bit of an extended party period from bringing in 2020, with a couple of birthdays sprinkled throughout. Was a good time over all. Fun was had and some unexpected and admittedly undeserved sweetness popped up that really put me in a good way.
Then I got sick with something through the entirety of February. It was disgusting. No idea what it was, got myself checked out, blood tested, and then it fucked off from wherever it came from. No clue what happened but here I am, I'm fine now.
A bit late into March to put this up, as I intended to do so at the beginning of March, but...
I am still open for commissions. It has not been going as smoothly on my end, but I have been hankering to take on more work. For now, I will leave my prices in this journal and I will sometime over the week work on putting up some more appealing graphical displays of my pricing and fill out my commission info tab. Hit me up via note or comment below if there's anything you want and we'll get to it.
As always, my prices are negotiable within reason, being that I want you to be happy with what you get for what you pay and I want to be happy with what I get for what I put in.
Base Prices
Sketches: $10USD
Coloured Sketch: $20USD
Lines: $30USD
Lines and Flat Colour: $40USD
Full Colour w/ Shading: $50USD
Modifiers
Additional Characters : +50% of base price per character
Simple Background : +50% of base price
Detailed Background : +75% of base price
Complex Designs : +25% of base price per complex element (eg, complex character markings, complex backgrounds, complex objects, etc)
New Year, New Stuff
Posted 5 years agoHoooooh. G'day.
I'm not in the habit of posting journals, especially lengthy or coherent journals. I'm going to try and fill in the gaps where I can starting at last December and up until now.
2019 and December.
Last year was personally rough for me. I changed a lot and not for the better. It took me quite a while to pull myself together, but bad things happen, y'know.
December got off to a terrible start. Went for a bit of a spiral and couldn't grasp what was happening and what I should do. It's personal so I'm not going into detail about the events. I consider myself lucky that it was the holiday period around the corner that I'm here and "okay" now. Plenty of friends, partying, lots of that good shit. Most of December has been a bit of a blurr for me, I just know I'm feelin' alright now. I can't let go of things and tend to have a very long memory for specific events and people so I'll probably still feel like shit about the things that happened for a long time coming in intermittent intervals, but at the core, I'm okay, and I will be okay.
2020 and Moving Forward
Personally.
I'm learning to try and step back before speaking and acting and trying to be more aware of my actions towards others and unlearn some of the bad habits that I've developed. I'm also attempting to practice what I preach more often. I can be better. I can always be better, as can everyone as long as they can acknowledge a flaw and actively try to address it. That's what I'm doing now.
Not much more to be said. I'm just going to try and be a better person to all my friends, peers and fans. I'm also going to try and have a proper sleep and work schedule.
In regards to my artwork and presence on FA and in the fandom.
I want to be more present here and have a more solid schedule. I'm too relaxed and don't compensate by making deadlines for myself, so commissions just slide back. I hate it.
Over the next few weeks I'll be straightening myself out and working on setting up an commission work schedule and a stream Schedule. Currently, I'm looking at a Mon-Fri work schedule and Monday/Friday being the two streaming days.
Though, I am also looking to include more time for personal work, namely 3D modelling and animation. There's still a lot I don't know and a lot that I need to learn. I need time to learn that and I don't feel I can do that with full work days, so that's somethin' to work out later on.
Patreon might be something I'll open up, if not I might open up a tipjar or FA Shinies or something, just as a means for people to show support and interest in what I do. I've wanted to do a Patreon for years now but really, really don't like how quickly it can become overwhelming for me and lacking for supporters. I don't want you, my fans, supporters, friends and peers to put money into something and feel you're not getting something out of it. Even if you were to chip in just to help me along, you deserve seeing what you have given has helped.
I have a clearer view of what I'm after and capable of, now. Once these current commissions are out of the way, I'll be looking into setting myself up for a more feasible and personally comfortable workload that incorporates all of my standard commission options, some new options and the free time to myself to wind down or work on personal things. Consistent commissions, for you all, slots and everything. It'll be healthy for me and help me assess myself for a Patreon page.
In closing.
I'm so tired and hung-over. But I'm feelin' good.
New year. New Me. New Art. New Start. All that stuff.
I hope you've all been well and I hope you all are starting this new year with your best foot forward.
You know where I'm at if you want me.
Cheers
I'm not in the habit of posting journals, especially lengthy or coherent journals. I'm going to try and fill in the gaps where I can starting at last December and up until now.
2019 and December.
Last year was personally rough for me. I changed a lot and not for the better. It took me quite a while to pull myself together, but bad things happen, y'know.
December got off to a terrible start. Went for a bit of a spiral and couldn't grasp what was happening and what I should do. It's personal so I'm not going into detail about the events. I consider myself lucky that it was the holiday period around the corner that I'm here and "okay" now. Plenty of friends, partying, lots of that good shit. Most of December has been a bit of a blurr for me, I just know I'm feelin' alright now. I can't let go of things and tend to have a very long memory for specific events and people so I'll probably still feel like shit about the things that happened for a long time coming in intermittent intervals, but at the core, I'm okay, and I will be okay.
2020 and Moving Forward
Personally.
I'm learning to try and step back before speaking and acting and trying to be more aware of my actions towards others and unlearn some of the bad habits that I've developed. I'm also attempting to practice what I preach more often. I can be better. I can always be better, as can everyone as long as they can acknowledge a flaw and actively try to address it. That's what I'm doing now.
Not much more to be said. I'm just going to try and be a better person to all my friends, peers and fans. I'm also going to try and have a proper sleep and work schedule.
In regards to my artwork and presence on FA and in the fandom.
I want to be more present here and have a more solid schedule. I'm too relaxed and don't compensate by making deadlines for myself, so commissions just slide back. I hate it.
Over the next few weeks I'll be straightening myself out and working on setting up an commission work schedule and a stream Schedule. Currently, I'm looking at a Mon-Fri work schedule and Monday/Friday being the two streaming days.
Though, I am also looking to include more time for personal work, namely 3D modelling and animation. There's still a lot I don't know and a lot that I need to learn. I need time to learn that and I don't feel I can do that with full work days, so that's somethin' to work out later on.
Patreon might be something I'll open up, if not I might open up a tipjar or FA Shinies or something, just as a means for people to show support and interest in what I do. I've wanted to do a Patreon for years now but really, really don't like how quickly it can become overwhelming for me and lacking for supporters. I don't want you, my fans, supporters, friends and peers to put money into something and feel you're not getting something out of it. Even if you were to chip in just to help me along, you deserve seeing what you have given has helped.
I have a clearer view of what I'm after and capable of, now. Once these current commissions are out of the way, I'll be looking into setting myself up for a more feasible and personally comfortable workload that incorporates all of my standard commission options, some new options and the free time to myself to wind down or work on personal things. Consistent commissions, for you all, slots and everything. It'll be healthy for me and help me assess myself for a Patreon page.
In closing.
I'm so tired and hung-over. But I'm feelin' good.
New year. New Me. New Art. New Start. All that stuff.
I hope you've all been well and I hope you all are starting this new year with your best foot forward.
You know where I'm at if you want me.
Cheers
Still open for commissions
Posted 6 years agoI finished my previous list, if anyone has anything else they want from me, do hit me up!
Commission List
Posted 6 years agoI am currently under some personal troubles here. Lovely that it popped up when I opened for commissions. This isn't to say I won't be working on commission and I in no way, shape or form am in a situation where money is a dire need. All the issues that have popped up are emotional and personal that I need some time to see out.
As it stands, I will be delayed in my work for, at the most, this week. For the time being, this is the commission queue I will be working on when I have the time.
Current commission list
Completed.
As it stands, I will be delayed in my work for, at the most, this week. For the time being, this is the commission queue I will be working on when I have the time.
Current commission list
Completed.
Hit me up with those commissions!
Posted 6 years agoWith my current list having dwindled down to a few hours of touch ups, I'm looking for more work to take on.
If you or anyone you know meets any of the following criteria, please send them my way!
-An interest in getting some artwork
-Enjoys my artwork or artwork of moderate quality
-Enjoys vore
-Is willing to pay for someone's time, effort and artwork
-Is super cool awesome, my dude (that's pretty much everyone)
If you or anyone you know meets any of the following criteria, please send them my way!
-An interest in getting some artwork
-Enjoys my artwork or artwork of moderate quality
-Enjoys vore
-Is willing to pay for someone's time, effort and artwork
-Is super cool awesome, my dude (that's pretty much everyone)
Commission Work Resumes
Posted 6 years agoI feel I've effectively wound down from my lovely time with my partner.
If you've been itching for a commission from me, do hit me up with a note! I'm open and available for work and will be resuming all work tomorrow.
I will also be resuming work on 3D modelling. Still learning, getting there, hate feet so much, but still goin'.
If you've been itching for a commission from me, do hit me up with a note! I'm open and available for work and will be resuming all work tomorrow.
I will also be resuming work on 3D modelling. Still learning, getting there, hate feet so much, but still goin'.
The Boyfriend Departs
Posted 6 years agoThe boyf comes to visit
Posted 6 years agoG'day.
This weekend, on the 23rd, my boyfriend
Alator will be staying with me for a couple of weeks. I would like some additional funding to help support us for the duration of the visit.
I intend to stream through the day for the rest of the week provided I have commissions to work on. Give me a prod if there's something you'd like from me and we can work something out between us.
This weekend, on the 23rd, my boyfriend

I intend to stream through the day for the rest of the week provided I have commissions to work on. Give me a prod if there's something you'd like from me and we can work something out between us.
Make me do art stuff for your money
Posted 6 years agoI'm still open and clear on commissions at the moment. If there's anything you want me to do, hit me up!
Not limiting myself to sketches this time around.
Not limiting myself to sketches this time around.
Current Commission Queue
Posted 6 years agoThis journal will be a constant journal while I am taking commissions. If this journal is featured, I'm open and available. I'm not actively seeking to take on commissions, but you're welcome to approach if you have an idea. Don't be disappointed if I turn you down, I'm just trying to keep myself open for personal work.
My current list is below. If you have interest in making this list longer, comment or note me!
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My current list is below. If you have interest in making this list longer, comment or note me!
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Feb Coms Done, Moving On
Posted 6 years agoI finally got through all of Feb's commissions. Was a lot of fun. but where am I going from here? Hm.
I've decided I'm going to focus as much time as possible into 3D artwork and animation as I can. I've got stuff laid out ready to go, I just need to get on with it. But it's a time consuming process and a long haul at that. It'll be a long time until I can get or do anything with it. The goal being to make my own models of characters, my own animations (4 vor, duh), and character models for mods.
Ambitious, Solid. But where does that leave me on commissions if my time is devoured by a Blender?
Commissions will be open for general inquiry, but I'll be limiting myself to single images. No comics. Sequences are a maybe. Boy, was Radarn's sequence taxing. Fun, but taxing. I may also adjust my prices slightly, as I've now gained a better perspective of my quality and the effort that goes into both short and long projects.
However, I will not be taking monthly commissions for the time being. I don't want my time dominated by both Blender and Commissions. Until I know what I need to dedicate to Blender, I want commissions to be something on the side. Might do weekend stream stuff for commissions, maybe. What I'm figuring is I'll throw out some weekly inquiries to see if there's anything anyone wants on the weekend, else you're free to approach me at any time to discuss an idea.
I'll release a journal detailing all future commissions over the week.
No, this is not an April Jape.
I've decided I'm going to focus as much time as possible into 3D artwork and animation as I can. I've got stuff laid out ready to go, I just need to get on with it. But it's a time consuming process and a long haul at that. It'll be a long time until I can get or do anything with it. The goal being to make my own models of characters, my own animations (4 vor, duh), and character models for mods.
Ambitious, Solid. But where does that leave me on commissions if my time is devoured by a Blender?
Commissions will be open for general inquiry, but I'll be limiting myself to single images. No comics. Sequences are a maybe. Boy, was Radarn's sequence taxing. Fun, but taxing. I may also adjust my prices slightly, as I've now gained a better perspective of my quality and the effort that goes into both short and long projects.
However, I will not be taking monthly commissions for the time being. I don't want my time dominated by both Blender and Commissions. Until I know what I need to dedicate to Blender, I want commissions to be something on the side. Might do weekend stream stuff for commissions, maybe. What I'm figuring is I'll throw out some weekly inquiries to see if there's anything anyone wants on the weekend, else you're free to approach me at any time to discuss an idea.
I'll release a journal detailing all future commissions over the week.
No, this is not an April Jape.
Upcoming art spam
Posted 6 years agoI'll be uploading everything I did in Feb once I get everything put together. Probably this weekend I'll start uploading.
Dragon is home
Posted 6 years agoI have returned from my trip to visiting
Alator
Every moment was fantastic. I had so much fun, so much food and so many snugs and kisses. I have a fantastic boyfriend.
I will resume commission work on the weekend. For now, I'd like to come down and cope with not being with him. ;~;

Every moment was fantastic. I had so much fun, so much food and so many snugs and kisses. I have a fantastic boyfriend.
I will resume commission work on the weekend. For now, I'd like to come down and cope with not being with him. ;~;
G'day+
Posted 6 years agoG'day
As I mentioned before in the pinned journal about February's commissions, I had a planned visit to stay with my boyfriend and partner,
Alator. I arrived late on Monday after my flight was delayed by an hour. This caused me to miss the scheduled bus service from the airport to my partner's town. However, with some quick planning we managed to catch a different service to the train station and catch the last train out of the city with seconds to spare. We arrived at his home at 2AM safely.
The following day we went to a local game/hobby store where the boyf played in an FFTCG league session and I joined in on an Smash Ultimate tournament. I went three matches in before being knocked out of winners and losers over two consecutive matches to some fairly basic stuff I just didn't deal with well at all. The fella who won the lot is actually really good, as were a few others. I was there for fun though, which I had lots of. Both myself and
had a great night.
Yesterday, we chilled, hit the cinema late into the evening and caught that Spiderman Spiderverse. No real expectations of it, turned out a lot better than I was anticipating. Good stuff, felt real natural. Animation and art direction was excellent.
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I did the dumb thing. For the commissions that have been started and paid for, I will not be able to continue work on them until I get back home. I didn't save a copy of the project files or WIP sketches to a storage device before coming over.
However, for all commissions I've yet to start on, I can probably get some time in to sketch.
Alator and I have decided we should set some time aside for a multistream on Picarto for commissions, requests, trades, etc, as something fun to do. Of course, if we decide to stream, there will be notifications linking to our own and each other's stream pages.
But until then, I will be hard to reach and slow to respond. I will do my best to give notifications of streams and the like in advance and get in contact with commissioners when I can. Commissions are not my priority, so any information sent back and forth about commissions can wait until the 20th. No rush for me, no rush for you.
Cheers and have a good one.
As I mentioned before in the pinned journal about February's commissions, I had a planned visit to stay with my boyfriend and partner,

The following day we went to a local game/hobby store where the boyf played in an FFTCG league session and I joined in on an Smash Ultimate tournament. I went three matches in before being knocked out of winners and losers over two consecutive matches to some fairly basic stuff I just didn't deal with well at all. The fella who won the lot is actually really good, as were a few others. I was there for fun though, which I had lots of. Both myself and

Yesterday, we chilled, hit the cinema late into the evening and caught that Spiderman Spiderverse. No real expectations of it, turned out a lot better than I was anticipating. Good stuff, felt real natural. Animation and art direction was excellent.
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I did the dumb thing. For the commissions that have been started and paid for, I will not be able to continue work on them until I get back home. I didn't save a copy of the project files or WIP sketches to a storage device before coming over.
However, for all commissions I've yet to start on, I can probably get some time in to sketch.

But until then, I will be hard to reach and slow to respond. I will do my best to give notifications of streams and the like in advance and get in contact with commissioners when I can. Commissions are not my priority, so any information sent back and forth about commissions can wait until the 20th. No rush for me, no rush for you.
Cheers and have a good one.
Am now older.
Posted 6 years agoYee.
Feb Commission Slots
Posted 6 years agoWith just about all commissions complete from January, I'll open up some slots for February-March. However, it is worth noting I may not be able to work on these commissions between the period of the 4th-20th of February as I will be visiting
Alator during that time and it is uncertain that we'll have time to work on commissions.
Anyway, same rules as before. Any commissions left undone from January are being carried over.
Sketch only.
$10 for a single character Sketch.
+$5 per additional character.
+$5 for complex designs/poses/clothing/etc.
Jan Slot -
JagKitty - Complete
Jan Slot - Private - Complete
Slot 1 -
Bacent - Complete
Slot 2 -
GalileoStar - Complete
Slot 3 -
GalileoStar - Complete
Slot 4 -
Glare - Complete
Slot 5 -
Warped - Complete
Slot 6 -
Warped - Complete
Slot 7 -
Radarn - Complete
Slot 8 -
Ryth - Complete
Slot 9 -
ApexFireJade - Complete
Slot 10 -
ZanaTheCutie - Complete

Anyway, same rules as before. Any commissions left undone from January are being carried over.
Sketch only.
$10 for a single character Sketch.
+$5 per additional character.
+$5 for complex designs/poses/clothing/etc.
Jan Slot -

Jan Slot - Private - Complete
Slot 1 -

Slot 2 -

Slot 3 -

Slot 4 -

Slot 5 -

Slot 6 -

Slot 7 -

Slot 8 -

Slot 9 -

Slot 10 -

Sketch Commission Slots
Posted 6 years agoCurrently, I am opening up a bunch of slots for each month. Intended to be for sketches only. Simple stuff I can do quickly while I work on other things.
$10 for a single character
+$5 per additional character
+$5 for complex designs/poses/clothing/etc
Slot 1 -
Brighten - Complete
Slot 2 - Private - Sketching
Slot 3 -
Autumn_Vector - Complete
Slot 4 -
Ryth - Complete
Slot 5 -
ApexFireJade - Complete
Slot 6 -
JagKitty - Complete
Slot 7 -
JagKitty
Slot 8 -
Glare - Complete
Slot 9 -
AlexX - Complete
Slot 10 -
Sandow - Complete
Comment here or shoot me a note, poke me on discord, etc.
$10 for a single character
+$5 per additional character
+$5 for complex designs/poses/clothing/etc
Slot 1 -

Slot 2 - Private - Sketching
Slot 3 -

Slot 4 -

Slot 5 -

Slot 6 -

Slot 7 -

Slot 8 -

Slot 9 -

Slot 10 -

Comment here or shoot me a note, poke me on discord, etc.
Quick update on my silence
Posted 7 years agoI've been silent for the past month due to illness and other life issues taking priority. This has left the commissions placed with me on hold.
I've recovered and plan on getting straight back into commissions tomorrow.
To be transparent
I do not enjoy colouring images all that much anymore. I dislike my line art and colouring is tedious. I'd raise my prices to counteract that, but I don't feel the quality is worth a price that high. Furthermore, larger projects tend to wear me out, especially when it comes to line art and colouring.
After the current commissions I have on hand, I may instead focus on sketch work, single images and possibly move into 3D modelling and animating more seriously.
This does not mean I am cancelling an of the current commissions I have. If there's anything you want, lay it on me and if I have accepted a commission that has been paid for, it will be done first and foremost.
Please contact me if there are any questions.
I've recovered and plan on getting straight back into commissions tomorrow.
To be transparent
I do not enjoy colouring images all that much anymore. I dislike my line art and colouring is tedious. I'd raise my prices to counteract that, but I don't feel the quality is worth a price that high. Furthermore, larger projects tend to wear me out, especially when it comes to line art and colouring.
After the current commissions I have on hand, I may instead focus on sketch work, single images and possibly move into 3D modelling and animating more seriously.
This does not mean I am cancelling an of the current commissions I have. If there's anything you want, lay it on me and if I have accepted a commission that has been paid for, it will be done first and foremost.
Please contact me if there are any questions.
I'm still open for commissions
Posted 7 years agoI don't plan to not be open for commissions.
If there's anything you could possibly want from me, do hit me up with an idea of yours, through notes or a comment here. Prices have been updated.
Stage - Single Character - Duo Characters
Sketch - $10USD - $15USD
Line - $25USD - $30USD
Flats - $35USD - $40USD
Full - $50USD - $55USD
Prices are negotiable. Prices may change due to complexity in poses, scenario, background and/or character design.
If there's anything you could possibly want from me, do hit me up with an idea of yours, through notes or a comment here. Prices have been updated.
Stage - Single Character - Duo Characters
Sketch - $10USD - $15USD
Line - $25USD - $30USD
Flats - $35USD - $40USD
Full - $50USD - $55USD
Prices are negotiable. Prices may change due to complexity in poses, scenario, background and/or character design.
Continuing Moving Forward (Weekly Commissions)
Posted 7 years agoOkay, life had a bit of a setback for me but I'm good to go.
Starting today for this week I am going to be taking commissions with the intent of completing them all before the Sunday of this week. I want to see what I can do in this time period as a means to assess viability for full time commissions. Here's the general mindset and guidelines to go by for this process.
- Eight (8) slots for this week are available.
- One commission per person
- Maximum of two characters involved
- Single Images only
- Any characters that do not belong to the commissioner must have permission given by the character owner
- Sketch, Line, Flat colour or Full Colour commissions available.
- Character Complexity will alter prices
Stage - Single Character - Duo Characters
Sketch - $10USD - $15USD
Line - $20USD - $25USD
Flats - $30USD - $35USD
Full - $40USD - $45USD
This is not a first in, first served scenario. Please leave a comment stating you'd like a commission, what drawing stage you'd like, what your idea is, references of characters involved and a comment from any other user involved in this commission stating they are happy to be involved in the idea stated.
You may do this process through a note and the commission can remain private.
I will pick whatever hits me as "doable" and will contact the commissioner with confirmation and an invoice. I will be starting these immediately on Monday and working through the week.
I may not limit myself to these eight slots, so comment even if there's already eight before you.
Have at it.
Starting today for this week I am going to be taking commissions with the intent of completing them all before the Sunday of this week. I want to see what I can do in this time period as a means to assess viability for full time commissions. Here's the general mindset and guidelines to go by for this process.
- Eight (8) slots for this week are available.
- One commission per person
- Maximum of two characters involved
- Single Images only
- Any characters that do not belong to the commissioner must have permission given by the character owner
- Sketch, Line, Flat colour or Full Colour commissions available.
- Character Complexity will alter prices
Stage - Single Character - Duo Characters
Sketch - $10USD - $15USD
Line - $20USD - $25USD
Flats - $30USD - $35USD
Full - $40USD - $45USD
This is not a first in, first served scenario. Please leave a comment stating you'd like a commission, what drawing stage you'd like, what your idea is, references of characters involved and a comment from any other user involved in this commission stating they are happy to be involved in the idea stated.
You may do this process through a note and the commission can remain private.
I will pick whatever hits me as "doable" and will contact the commissioner with confirmation and an invoice. I will be starting these immediately on Monday and working through the week.
I may not limit myself to these eight slots, so comment even if there's already eight before you.
Have at it.
Moving Forward
Posted 7 years agoI am heavily weighing up the possibility of taking on commissions properly and starting a patreon page.
Normally, I don't much rely on commissions for income, nor do I really enjoy the way a lot of people handle their patreon pages. I have my gripes and problems with a whole slew of things here are handled in the furry commission world. I have no mind to try and change it, either. But I feel it's time I participate more seriously.
I'd like to open myself as a constant source of artwork for those who would support me in creating content. At the moment, I need to put some things in place to assure my own safety in regards to producing artwork, but once that's done, my next concern is providing content at a reasonable rate while being accessible to a wide range of people.
Paywalls are shitty. Exclusivity to content is shitty. It sells when you're big enough but it's shitty to those who can't get in. I'm not big enough to do so and I wouldn't even if I was. I want all people to be able to obtain something from me, as is my goal, but providing such things for free isn't feasible either. My mentality going into this is to appeal to those who would support me on patreon and provide them benefits without taking away from those who can't afford or don't want to sign up to a subscription.
I will be revising my prices over the remainder of this week. I will be open and accepting commissions afterwards. My aim is to determine a workable flow of artwork for myself. After that has been determined, I plan to set a work schedule and open commissions on a weekly/fortnightly basis with details of the commissions I will/won't accept.
From there, I will work on creating a patreon page that takes those commission prices into account and offers benefits to patrons, as well as setting goals for myself from there.
If there's any questions, advice or statements you wish to ask or share, please do so here.
Normally, I don't much rely on commissions for income, nor do I really enjoy the way a lot of people handle their patreon pages. I have my gripes and problems with a whole slew of things here are handled in the furry commission world. I have no mind to try and change it, either. But I feel it's time I participate more seriously.
I'd like to open myself as a constant source of artwork for those who would support me in creating content. At the moment, I need to put some things in place to assure my own safety in regards to producing artwork, but once that's done, my next concern is providing content at a reasonable rate while being accessible to a wide range of people.
Paywalls are shitty. Exclusivity to content is shitty. It sells when you're big enough but it's shitty to those who can't get in. I'm not big enough to do so and I wouldn't even if I was. I want all people to be able to obtain something from me, as is my goal, but providing such things for free isn't feasible either. My mentality going into this is to appeal to those who would support me on patreon and provide them benefits without taking away from those who can't afford or don't want to sign up to a subscription.
I will be revising my prices over the remainder of this week. I will be open and accepting commissions afterwards. My aim is to determine a workable flow of artwork for myself. After that has been determined, I plan to set a work schedule and open commissions on a weekly/fortnightly basis with details of the commissions I will/won't accept.
From there, I will work on creating a patreon page that takes those commission prices into account and offers benefits to patrons, as well as setting goals for myself from there.
If there's any questions, advice or statements you wish to ask or share, please do so here.