Furry

Two tweets by the union "Industrial Workers of the World" (from2020) reminding furries that they have a place in the worker movement: Fursuit makers can join the Textile and Leather Workers, artists can join the Printing and Publishing Workers.

Done as a request for BalloonieLuna. If you're interested, my commissions are open.

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/5891447

Char belongs to T/dude_verse.

I hope to make good posts and find my space here. I CANNOT DRAW but I thought I'd try anyways so I'd have something original to contribute! Cya around! ^^

Silvia the Boar has been unleased into the voxel worlds! Muahahahaha~! Also, I used Blockbench to make it. Surprisingly easy to use.

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/5834719

Head modelled by Jting-F and constructed by me. Code - https://github.com/WW92030-STORAGE/prog8/tree/main/STANDARDIZED

src for this great art by AnimalShapes

found this art on Mastodon! What a friendly looking derg :3

This stupid idea popped into my head and I decided to put it down. If you're interested, my commissions are open.

src for this cozy art by Kinniro

found this on Furaffinity! :3

Finished up the first piece for 2024, even though I definitely wanted to get this done last year. But done is done.

Wei is among a small number of surviving members of the Nimarrans, an alien species which at one point in the distant past ruled the entire Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way galaxy. After his civilization was wiped out in a failed attempt to achieve collective godhood, he was left for dead in a cryo-stasis escape pod and drifted through space for countless millennia before being recovered and thawed by a group of human space explorers.

src for this cute art by geckoZen

found this on DeviantArt! :3

A 15 second animation meme with the song: ANTONYMPH by Vylet Pony

Animation by me, inspired by Flipnote animations.

Warning: pretty sure it contains a tiny bit of swearing

src for this adorable art by Nellorain

found this on Furaffinity! Hope you all have a great new years eve! :3

src for this cute artwork by Cryptten

found this on Furaffinity! If there are angels in the furry universe they must look like this! :3

I started drawing in January of this year, and finally finished up my first piece in early February. Since then I've been trying to improve on it, and I decided to look back to see if there were any real metrics that could show I made decent progress.

The most obvious first step was to take a look at the upvotes I'd gotten:

Also, NSFW stats:

And, overall, it's a mixed bag. Lemmy definitely has a longer running time for keeping posts alive (it helps that there's fewer posts here), and Reddit has the issue that if your post isn't noticed inside 2 hours, it won't be picked up at all. There's no real sign of definite progress on Reddit, though Lemmy does seem to see at least some uptick in this metric, though that could be attributed to c/furry growing.

So, there's the next obvious metric, upvote percentage:

Reddit drops these metrics after 40 days, so I have no idea what it's like for the majority of my posts. Generally though, the response is more positive on Lemmy than Reddit, but it might be a bit too early to tell if the percentages are actually meaningful, or if the community doesn't downvote good content just because it's not their type, and upvotes are a more meaningful metric.

And, finally, FurAffinity:

There's not a lot of items there, either. If I post something good, I might get a fav. If I post something really good, I might get 2. Like Reddit, if it's not noticed inside a short window, it appears to get buried. The one exception appears to be this piece, which has gotten fav'd repeatedly over time. Watches, on the other hand, appear to be entirely random--or it could be my work's just not good enough to get people wanting me on their feed.

So, just some lessons from my time over the last year:

• Memes are faster and lower-effort to draw, but get a lot bigger response (yes, I know, groundbreaking statement of the year).
• Time and effort spent don't equate to response. I know, it's another obvious statement, but until you've spent weeks on something for nothing, it doesn't quite sink in.
• Either a) I've not become a better artist, or b) these metrics aren't the full picture, and I also suck at promoting myself. I'm hoping it's the latter.

Regardless, it's been a big journey, and I hope it's only the start. I came to Lemmy from Reddit after the API changes, and overall, c/furry's been an open, welcoming, and most importantly positive place. I love it here, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it continue to grow.