Wyldfire

"There is no excuse not being able to draw, it just takes practice"

[fuckingfurries]

Wow… Fr0stbit3 has sunk to a whole new low. Which I thought could not be possible. This is easily the most disgusting thing he has ever done. https://imgur.com/SCJEyCI

Kayla-La was an absolute sweet heart and was a well respected member of the furry community. She is no longer with us and took her own life due to her depression. She turned down a beware he made since there was plenty of evidence against him FROM the user he was trying to beware. He was in the wrong and started alot of drama over the situation. Kayla - La had to take action and block him/ban, and since it happened he just couldn’t let it go. What he said in the caps I linked is unforgivable! I’m sorry for the little rant but I find this disgusting and inhuman. Kayla-La was truly a wonderful person and friend. I miss her dearly, and I wish there was a way to prevent it from happening. I hope this will open more eyes in regard to Frosts toxic behavior. Sorry again… I’m just upset, I am not taking this to well…. 

And we’re back…oh god, Frost you can’t keep your fucking mouth shut, you narcissistic asswipe.

Nothing I want to say hasn’t been said before, so I’ll just post this and give Frost a summary of what I would say. https://imgur.com/a/BK6No

- Snake Mod

[wyldfire77]

It’s not fault that Kayla la is a fucking awful person. I’d like to believe she was nice but nope. I showed my side of the story to some people and every single one of them agreed with me over Tojo. Kayla simply wanted to kiss the ass of a popufur because god forbid. Karma is a bitch.

[theycallhimcake]

Post Fire GoFundMe thing

Under the suggestion of my friends, I’ve launched a GoFundMe in response to the massive fire we had, so I can get around to replacing my stuff a bit easier/sooner.

If you haven’t already seen, our farm property pretty much got curbstomped by a fire on May 10th, leaving the house severely damaged, our stuff damaged, and our barn/garage/smokehouse 100% gone. The house is still standing, but HOO BOY did that fire just fuck everything up inside. Smoke/water damage ensures that your stuff, if not already dead, is going to die, and I can’t really afford that. I want to replace my computer/drawing equipment, since it now has a severely limited lifespan now… and whatever’s leftover to maybe help with transportation/living expenses. Fires suck, and they have a good way messing up any sort of life mojo you have going on.

I have lots of neato frito pics of my destroyed house on the GoFundMe page, https://www.gofundme.com/cakesfirething, so if you don’t wanna pay, at least you can ooh and ahh at the decimation of my home/property.

Insurance doesn’t cover everything, and what we DO get back from personal stuff, we’re putting back into the house, not replacing our things, including my computer, my tablet, my game consoles, etc…. 

So, in this time of need, I turn to you guys. I know it’s messed up, and I don’t like begging for money, but I was convinced that this, of all times, would be the time to do so. If you can’t give anything, at least consider spreading this post. I’d seriously appreciate it. After all, I wanna get back to doin’ what I do as soon as possible, and anything would help.

>>>>GO HERE TO DONATE!<<<<

I also have a Patreon if you feel like throwing money at me monthly! That’s cool too.

Thanks peeps.

[wyldfire77]

My friends home got COMPLETELY burned down and she lost everything and she's not getting anywhere near enough support to get her back on her feet...

[shadowfromthestarlight]

“You here?”

This could work.

I’m the most awesome candidate that you’re either here at my rallies or you wish you could be here. 

[classicalliberalleague]

“Good Luck”

I’m not seeing that work well.

[straightpalechristianrepublican]

“do you know what this means??”

workable

-SP

[straightpalechristianrepublican]

the alien emoji????

-CR

[disgruntled-neighborhood-wife]

“Yeah….that night…while fun…was detrimental to my health.”

GREAT

[adventuresinemmaland]

“But awesome.”

It would be great when people would argue against electing me because you could use my slogan as your argument.

[tunedintoteaching]

“Lol nice”

Interesting..

[teachingwithcoffee]

TOO LONG Hm.

[formallygoodbye-deactivated2019]

“I offer no affirmation or denial of that.”

I’d make a good politician with that behavior.

[thevictoryfire88]

“ On my way home.”

[nickyvmlp]

“$60.”

[fanboyingoveranypony]

“Is the funeral over soon?” .. I could be a morbid president

[jessiereblogs]

“Eating toast” Ok works with me

[riquis]

“Miss?”

[poetessyt]

“It’s chicken…in capes!”

What in the world would my policy positions entail after that?!

[cannedcream]

“We are poor this week so movie is all we are doing. And Mike is exhausted so I’m forcing him sleep soon after.”

Just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?

[sugaryviolet]

“Trying to figure out a good day for the party”

This could work.

[3-apples-deactivated20180325]

“And perhaps cum in there?” Yeah…..

[wyldfire77]

"Lemme get those tasty butt cheeks"

[allisonillustration]

The Bully

This comic I made over a year ago, but I’ve touched it up since and I’m happy to share it on tumblr C: while I’ve improved immensely since I made this, I’m still really proud of myself for making it.

ps. this was during a stage in my art where I was a little texture heavy, heh heh

[wyldfire77]

Still no excuse for people to bully others. I had several groups of kids pick kn me at school constantly and I never had any friends. They'd call me names like gay or fag. I hated school.

[wakor]

Ok you know what?

I will defend furries to my fucking grave. When I was in the hole and needed money for college, not a SINGLE person from tumblr or deviantART ordered a commission. Sometimes people would ask about prices and reply, “Oh, nevermind, that’s too expensive.” I felt miserable.

In a fit of desperation, I brushed off my old Furaffinity account and revamped it. It was full of old, outdated bullshit and still had my “Taco pancakes!!! XDDD” aesthetic embedded in the info box. I had a lot of work to do.

When I was done, I started following and talking to people, I made an art shop, I started posting things and providing commission info. 

Within a few weeks, I had my first customer. After a month, I had a full queue of commissions lined up to go. I have $250 in my PayPal wallet left after paying for my textbooks and part of my tuition – and I’m still getting more business! 

And you know what my most common comment was? “Your art really should cost more.” These were often followed by $10-20 tips. I was fucking flabbergasted.

So yeah, go ahead and make fun of furries. Undermine the hours of work that goes into their art and fursuits. But they are more willing to pay for art than the tumblr and deviantART community COMBINED, despite all the pro-artist uwu bullshit I see every other page on this damned site.

[ikrutt]

Can confirm! Even if you don’t draw porn or animals, there is almost certainly a market for your art over at FurAffinity. I’ve seen a big rise in non-anthro art during the past few years as well, with people generally being very positive towards it.

The clunky old coding and sketchy admins are bothersome, but not enough to drive me away from the business and the handful of people I enjoy interacting with. If your only concern is to earn money off your art, I think FA is one of the online art galleries where it’s easiest to build a good rep and get returning customers. 

In addition, there are a lot of really good artists of all stripes there, some of which I suspect are professionals doing furry stuff or porn on the side. I’ve collected a couple of hundreds of notable ones in my journals, see links at the bottom for previous entries. 

PS. I know a lot of people have issues with the site, and if you do, know that I’m not interested in hearing your opinion. Keep it to yourself.

[tasteslikeanya-deactivated20190]

I would like to counter this and say I found the FA community hostile and judgmental. They told me my prices were to high: it was not at all absurd, like I was seriously underselling myself.

When I got no commissions from there, and also couldn’t get into the community, (nothing personal to anyone there, I just didn’t have much time to invest in a whole nother social media site if people weren’t going to buy from me) I was attacked by several people on a post I made saying I was only interested in money and basically just being really rude.

I left that community and to this day I don’t know why my experience in particular was so terrible when I see dozens of posts like this, but I’m never going back there.

[fluma]

I am grateful for FA, 95% of my commissions are from there. Was never told off about my pricing. So sorry Anya that you didnt get a better experience as I was the one who convinced you to try it out if I remember correctly

[tasteslikeanya-deactivated20190]

Yeah! I’m super glad your experience there was good. I jumped in there hoping for the same thing, as like the original poster here, I was going through a really rough time financially. I don’t know what I did wrong for it to fall so flat for me. :/

[magic-doogies]

Your experience isn’t really an anomaly tbh. I follow a lot of furry artists that deal with asshole clients price griefing on a constant basis. One thing OP left out is how much they actually charged for their commissions. Of course they would go over the moon if you priced hour work $20 for color a d tip. But we’re they that willing when color was $75-120? For a lot of artists on FA that o follow the answer was no. Not saying FA is bad but this post is kind of over hyped, and horribly biased.

[ikrutt]

(Not talking directly to @tasteslikeanya here, although I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you! More to artists in general.)

If you join the site and hope to become a popular artist instantly, that’s not very realistic. If you are not willing to interact with people, leave some comments and wait a few weeks or a month or two to get the ball rolling, people are going to be less inclined to support you, no matter what kind of client base the site offers.

I currently charge $35-$40 and hour, and I know several FA artists who charge twice and thrice that amount. Of course people are going to complain, people always do. However, nobody pays that kind of money for furry commissions before you have made some kind of rep for yourself. I am sorry, but that just isn’t going to happen.

Something I would suggest to anyone considering FA for business, would be to start out doing cheaper stuff that takes less time to make. Sketches, icons, adoptables… Clients then post your work in their own galleries, and together with prompt and polite artist-client-interaction, you’ll have the word spreading fast.

Also, most people on FA are alright, but I wouldn’t join the site shouting “I’m just here to get my hands on those sweet furry buxx” to anyone who cares to listen. Some people find that to be a little… unsavory or hypocritical, I guess. If you’re not a furry, that’s fine, just don’t state it in big bold letters in your Profile and expect nobody to react to it.

This has been How To Survive FurAffinity 101, thanks for listening!

[wyldfire77]

I was doing ok with this until I was attacked by jerks. I noticed my commissioners were leaving and I wasn't getting any. People here on tumblr were bashing me and several popufurs like Kabier talking shit about me ruined my business and I make nothing.

[horrorerror-blog]

http://maxxmissions.tumblr.com/ like to stalk me and harass me. Like I legit don’t say anything to them, but all they post is rude things about me. They have made me have many panic attacks and said I’m so horrible and my boyfriend should leave me. So now that I know how to block them. I’m going to and let everyone know that they are not a decent person.

[cooourtniiix333-deactivated2011]

If you love your Dad reblog this. If not he dies in 13 days.

[plants4]

stop fucking making posts like these come on

[wyldfire77]

I hope he does die. FUCK YOU DAD!

[cmykenna]

Dealing with Artistic Burnout

Artistic burnout is a problem many artists experience at some point in their career. If you’ve never experienced it, then consider yourself lucky. But if you have, I wanted to talk a little bit about it as someone who has been there.

Let’s be honest, art is a pretty awesome career. We’re extremely fortunate to get paid to do something we really love. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to turn a hobby into a career, and something I am truly grateful for. But like any career, sometimes it’s stressful and difficult, and it requires a lot of effort. It can be frustrating when that thing you used to do for fun in your free time becomes the thing that is causing you stress. It’s the one unfortunate side effect of turning your hobby into your job. Sometimes you’re just not going to enjoy it.

Keep reading

[wyldfire77]

Or when you have blogs that publically shame you so no one ever commissions you again and you will never even have a chance doing art as a job.

[wyldfire77]

So this blog, fuckingfurries, just openedly admitted that they don't give a shit about you and they just need drama for the troll blog. Or unless your a popfur then you get an unlimited supply of get out of jail free cards. I was victimized by two people I used to admire and this blog shames me because I got upset at how they treated me. I was bullied my whole life and I am still to this day. I get emotional easy. It doesn't give you a right to shame people for it! You are making people feel worse about themselves than they already were! I drew a gift, they hated it and shamed me for it, I get angry, they troll me, and now this stupid blog is shaming me because I got upset. And now I got proof that they don't give a shit what happened. If you are a human being, SHAME ON YOU. Humans are bad creatures that should all be shamed because we have this little thing called "emotions". Its ok for Kabier to have her followers threaten, but god forbid I get mad because she did that, then I'm the bad guy. Robber breaks into house and kills wife, husband gets mad and kills robber. Husband goes to jail because he got mad :) That's essentially what you're doing. You are letting those people who are actually assholes get away with it and shaming people when they get emotional.

[wyldfire77]

Jasonafex

The more and more I see the kind of shit that Jasonafx posts, the more and more I throw up. He just recently published a journal in regards to handling depression and how to fix it. Yet ironically he caused me the most amount of pain anyone has and makes fun of the fact I am depressed. So much for having someone to look up to only to have them talk shit behind your back. Thanks Jason. You really do know how to help boost someone's self esteem. I know you really boosted mine. Now everytime I see those scars you caused me on my body, I think of how much I admired your work only to have you treat me like shit in return. I didnt deserve the way you treated me. But do go ahead and write how you love your fans and how you love giftart from others, yet you decided to make me to be the villain when all I wanted to do was impress you. Thank you.

[wyldfire77]

So apparently the blog fuckingfurries has gotten so obsessed with me, theyre starting to take matters that ARENT EVEN ISSUES and turning them into issues.

I never thought asking an artist to draw a picture would be considered “harassment.” But you know how biased people are and how one sided they are they just NEED SOMETHING to shit talk on other people right?

[wyldfire77]

Jasonafex is a LIAR. http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6942884/ Everything written in thus journal are cold hard lies. He doesn't give a shit about fan art, he's just trying to make himself "look good." I remember how much he "loved" the giftart I worked on for HOURS for him. And he hated it, and he sure let me know he hated it. He didn't appreciate it a all. So the fact he's writing bullshit that he "loves" fan art" is just another lie to hide his true selfish self.

[king-joaquin]

[recklesscloudz-deactivated20230]

Reblog and you’ll find money soon!

[nudiemuse]

Yes.

Also weird I reblobbed the other money one last night and a freelance check I invoiced for a month ago came in.

[timaeustestifieds]

reblobbed

[justthefangirl]

seriously have nothing to lose

[sherlysthougths]

Did it once might as well let it stack. At least I’m not buying loto tickets

[vikwinchester-blog]

Vote for this artwork: creativeallies.com/inspired-by-hollywood-undead

[wyldfire77]

That's not fair D: I submitted my design but now its definitely going to lose because you are promoting this one :< Unless you drew this

[wyldfire77]

Do NOT order from furrydakimakura.com They only do what they want to do and they do not care about their customers.

[wyldfire77]

To: Maxxmissions

I've noticed ever since you denied to fix my commission that you made the error on, you have been doing nothing but causing me problems. You are trying to tell my friends I'm some huge asshole just because I didnt pay you extra to fix your mistake you made. You are trying to push blame onto others so you seem to be a victim. I've commissioned you a few times, and you can't take the fucking time to draw a god damn cape when you forgot to do it. You would think customer loyalty would mean something but I guess not. Whatever you can do to make an extra penny. You have been leaving comments to EVERY SINGLE POST that involves me, and I wonder why? You are stalking me and I want you to stop! Leave me alone!!

[wyldfire77]

My comic was published into Dragon's Hoard! I'm so happy! :D