All ya'll artists who draw internal shots know that a uterus doesn't have any air in it, right?

I just want reassurance that those keyhole and cervical penetration and other uterine cross-section cutaways are artistic license, rather than a belief that the uterus has that much open space and/or air for cum to slosh around it.

What about you viewers? Do you think a uterus has that much space? Do you think the artists know it doesn't, or do you think they think it does?

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It was a light ad day.

Why in the world does FA not support ePub format for written work?

Folks may or may not know that I do written work too. It's posted in a different place that has much better support for written work though.

So a question:
Stories here?

If yes:
Sad text on the screen or PDF to download?
Post on this account or new account to keep photos and stories separate?

It's very interesting to see this progress further through the years on FA. There are a relatively small handful of the populace who have some very notable kinks and also have a metric crapton of money.

This means that their kinks show up on nearly every artist's page if the artist is willing to take their money. Perhaps it's not something the artist would normally draw, but if they get paid, suddenly it's there. Sometimes this results in a flood of "I didn't know you'd draw that... Draw it for me too!". Sometimes it's a one-time stumbling block for watchers that they wish they could unsee, Sometimes it becomes a change in the artist's likes and dislikes and starts to flood the work, resulting in a max exodus and influx as watchers swap out. Regardless of what happens, the mark of these buyers and influencers can be found nearly everywhere on the site.

It's very easy to recognize the rich eccentrics. Can't watch the top artists without swimming in the stuff.

Impregnated/impregnating herms that are either single-handedly funding the abortion industry or have an army of babies thousands strong.
Folks who would never actually stick a dick inside somebody, but touch the cock with feet and they explode nearly instantly.
Ferals with severe elephantiasis who couldn't hunt, let alone walk with the size their gonads have swollen to, stuffing multi-foot cocks into females that must be made of living rubber so those silly internal organs don't get in the way.
Those characters who do EVERY female, whether the female wants to or not, and then do their daughter(s) too.

There are many others, and as they get more money and get more commission slots, more of FA becomes their personal space.

Maybe you like this. Maybe you hate it. Maybe you don't care.

I just find it interesting. ^.^

NOTE:
For every example above, people could say "Oh, that's...!". Every example covers at least two people and there are many more examples and people, This is not intending to shame, which is why I used the term "eccentric" rather than other verbiage that has negative connotations. Other people may or may not feel differently.

Long ago, people were buying exciting art of their characters in fun scenes and situations.

Then came YCH. "This is already pre-drawn, and I'll change a few things about it (maybe) and color it like you"

... Group YCH. "Multiple people buy spots. Somebody gonna screw ya kiddo, and you have NO clue who."

... Adoptables. "I created this nifty, unique character. There is currently no other like it. $45 and you get the rights to use this character (until I decide I want it back) and a reference sheet drawn specifically for them."

... Mass Market Adoptables: "I (or somebody else) drew this cool line art, and now I'm going to color it over and over with different colors and sell each one as an adoptable. And OMG, Don't you DARE make your own of this race or something vaguely like it or I will sic my adoring fans on you like rabid weasels! I use the thing like a coloring book and I get $60 for it. What do you look like? You look like every single other one of these I've sold, but with different colors and patterns. And maybe a few different lines if I'm really generous, like a bow or not a bow."

... Close up YCH. "It's a Your Character Here, but all I have to draw is the waist and cock of most of them. Or your butt. You have a distinctive butt, right? That'll be $75."

... Your COCK Here. "It's a picture of your character's cock! Everybody can easily tell, right?"

... Adoptable Bits. "You can adopt one of this fine selection of cocks or pussies. They look really cool! Character not included." (Apparently this is made for the close up YCH, where nothing else matters)

What's next? Adoptable precummy tip drip? Adoptable gamete? "This sperm and egg will make a GREAT character! You'll love it! You just need to carry them to term. Oh, and I just give you the gametes, that's all I do. Everything else is up to you. $90 please."

It's the end of 2016, so it's time for us to collect the list of Furry Reality Rules that exist. Rules of things related to the content of Furry Art.

Mind you, "Reality Rules" are not unique to furry artwork. Anime has stuff. Trek has stuff. Star wars has stuff. ALLLL the things have stuff. And sometimes there are even overlaps.

So, onwards... I know there are things I'll miss.

"It fits"
- 17 inches long? No problem!
- Wider than the leg? No problem!
- Knot bigger than their hips? No problem!
- Internal organs don't exist! Otter space solves everything.

"Almost everything has a horse cock."
- Deer? Horse cock!
- Bull? Horse cock!
- Lizard? Horse cock!
- Cat? Ummm... Horse cock with a knot!

"Tummy vagoo is normal"
- Remember: A huge amount of vajayjay is drawn by people who have never actually bothered to look at a real one or where it is.

"The spine splits above the pelvis to form a tail"
- This might be because people are used to looking at animals on all fours? "It's at the top of that area." Never mind that the back is horizontal on ferals.

"Feet are awesome, always"
- Lick, 'em, suck 'em, sniff 'em, shove them in faces, cum on them, wiggle toes, because feet are much better than sex

"Pelvic bones don't exist, because bulge!"
- If you need to show a bulge by her cunny, you -need- to show a bulge by her cunny! Don't let something silly like the fact that there's a bone between the vaginal cavity and the front of her body get in the way.

"Cum is very thin and expelled in great quantities so always squirts everywhere while being spurted in"
- It's like pudding! It starts out super-thin so it can burst like a Splat! and then instantly congeals when it hits something so it sticks.

"Two cocks on one guy are better than one!"
- Because hey, sitting around and doing nothing is great fun for the one outside! You can tell. It spooged.

"Anuses are located on the back of the hips"
- If a guy is standing up straight, their anus will show from behind. Easy access!

"Yes, 'she' is a herm, and (at least) twice as big as you are. So Nyeh."
- ALLLLLLL the things!

I know I'm missing many things. What am I missing?

I'm sure that people have seen the "I'm ___% Furry" thing going around. It seems that pretty much everybody is at least 2% furry, if not more.

"you love fish/meat"
Non-Veg-peeps are at least 2% furry.

"people can make you stop doing stuff by hitting you on the nose with a newspaper"
I don't know many people who will continue things they are doing completely oblivious to being hit with a newspaper.

"you sleep a lot during daytime"
Night shift!

"you enjoy long walks in the park"
Isn't this something akin to the Classic Personals Ad? "I enjoy long walks in the park, candlelight dinners..."

"you really enjoy cuddling"
O.o Common! And the last thing people want to hear when they want to get some.

"you stretch your body and whimper a bit every morning when you wake up"
Soooo... Like old people?

"you can wake up and go back to sleep right away after looking around"
Tired people!

"you have your favorite spot besides your bed where you like to sleep"
Old people again. Silly rockers.

"you hide when you get scared"
Small children. And people at mass shootings.

"you own a wearable item/tag with your name on it"
MedicAlert bracelets! And allllllllll the soldiers with their dog tags. (Does the "dog" part mean bonus credit?)

"you tend to chew on stuff a lot"
Valley Girls and their gum!

"you look for edible stuff often"
Most people do this every meal time.

"you like to eat grass"
Jamba Juice sells the stuff!

So at this point, it might be interesting to find out who isn't at least 2% furry.

Interesting how recent developments in YCH offers have been encouraging people to make characters with distinctive groins so they are recognizable in the YCH art.

Some people complain (rightly) that FA sucks at keywords.

This is true. The site has no capability for multi-word keywords and no enforcement of keyword use. This site came to be before keywords were actually a thing. Heck, a lot of artists don't even touch the keywords.

However a HUGE amount of the blame falls on the artists and posters. Keywording is haaaaaard! Just ask anybody who sticks something like "bisexual" on a solo picture because the character in it, despite no text indicating such, happens to be bisexual. Tip: This is a failure. Do not do this.

Even worse, there are some artists who have this brilliant(ly stupid) idea that the keywords box is meant for random quips and comments:

Keywords:
fennec fox canine cock cum big balls hyper i only slept for fucking one hour last night and it sucks

Keywords:
Big Bad Wolf Anthro Male Solo Moon Werewolf Were This Is No Pokemon Go

Keywords:
So Blazer took Wilson pants and Gina does not know how to break it to him fluff roses rock smiles happy love DERPS Wilsonjackal Blazer-dragon Darkspot Flash-lioness three happy butts

This is cute. Kind of like a preschooler pooping his pants and getting That Look on his face is cute. The difference is that most of the kids grow out of the pants-pooping stage, while keywording seems to continue to be a challenge for (theoretically) otherwise-intelligent adults.

Dear Artists...

Thumbnail - noun. In computer terms, a miniature representation of a larger piece that allows a viewer to make an educated decision on whether to dedicate time and resources to displaying the full piece.

There are two types of thumbnails.
The first type is an actual thumbnail, specifically a miniature version of the entire image. Despite all your artistic inclinations, this is actually the most useful information to viewers the vast majority of the time and will result in the most views overall with all other things being the same.
The second type is an artist-created thumbnail. Don't get me wrong, these can have their place. Got something horrifyingly offensive? Thumbnails can be a great way to represent that in a text manner rather than getting unhappy people. Videos? Text? Well, tiny lines are no good, nor are trying to play all the frames tiny, so a single-frame art piece is good there.

Unfortunately, a lot of artists have the mistaken idea that a "teaser" or cropped thumbnail is a good idea. If you are one of these artists, here's a small hint from millions of people much wiser than you: It's NOT a good idea.

Thumbnails lose data and detail by nature, but they should still be representative of the whole piece to allow a proper decision of whether to view or not. Cropping a beautiful sexy scene down to a happy face loses WAY too much information to still be representative of the entire piece. Thus, people cannot make an informed decision and you've just wrecked the whole concept of thumbnails.

"But I want to tease them to see more!"
Yeah, sounds like a cool idea, but not only does it straight out not work, but it'll also cost you viewers and good will. Hiding something offensive off-crop? Great way to pull in people who will hate your guts for tricking them with a happy face and then showing them something horrid. And if you've got a great picture but want to show off the happy face... well... then people glancing quickly through thumbnails will see a happy face and not click because they have no idea there is something more awesome than that. So you lose discovery viewers.

"But if I don't crop it, people can't see the details in the thumbnail."
That's right. That's the idea. To get an overview of the entire composition. Trust in the power of the thumbnail. They existed long before the internet was even a thing in the form of contact sheets.

Any site that forces cropped thumbnails is doing you a major disservice. Any site that -allows- you to upload your own thumbnails and then you crop them or something equally non-representative? You're hurting yourself that way.

Got an artist who needs to see this and learn the ways of the thumbnail? Point it out to them.
Got questions, comments, or suggestions? Post them below. I'm not always right, but neither are you. And yes, some people are "just fine with cropped thumbnails". They are not the majority and there is nothing wrong with them.

It's that time again!

They moved to ghost towns, and now as ghosts they are coming back to haunt us. Specters of their once glory now reduced to haunting moans and frustrating wisps teasing us to lead us off to other places where we don't necessarily want to be.

Artists who moved to other sites, posted a commission or auction, and suddenly realize that they're not getting any requests or offers respectively are now advertising in journals here to go buy on another site.Even at the absolutely most-successful they can be in this endeavor, they've already cut down their potential purchasers by all the people they've snubbed by moving and all the people who can't be bothered to go to another site.

I love the artists, really I do, but I'd say likely there is not a single super-popular artist who can pull even HALF their watchers to another site with them. When they leave FA, they need to understand that they are reducing their exposure by at least eleven stops. When they try to correct for this with a longer exposure time, everything gets blurry and viewers get frustrated.

Okay, seriously... The site is in beta (really alpha, but that's beside the point) and has only been up for a few months. There shouldn't be more fail-fodder from it than there is from FA, yet there is. Whyyyyyyyy?!

In three hours today...

"FN goes down for '20-30 minute maintenance'. Comes back after two hours. Apparently they missed a '1' in front of their advertised time."
"FN Main page loads 4.1 MB auto-playing video."
"Not satisfied with loading the video once, the page loops the video and RELOADS THE WHOLE THING EVERY TIME IT DOES"
"FN artwork browsing when not logged in (should be all tame) features glowing cock for reading light and dick-shaped macro-fur bulge on first load of thumbnails"
"Site changes improve thumbnail load speed. Submission view now takes exactly 30 seconds to load in order to compensate."
"Endless Scroll unloading inappropriately bug fixed! Not-fixed though."
"Hundreds of artists worried about the security of their FA password (which was hashed and salted) hand it over to FN to store a reversible manner so it can log in as them on FA and transfer their stuff."

I want to see a good site succeed. I want there to be competition and more good sites in the furry community. But in order to achieve that, they need to be 100% spot on from the very start. If they stumble significantly, they just add to "YAFS Fatigue" (Yet Another Furry Site) and hurt the chances of everything that comes after them. FN is stumbling severely and this makes me a sad panda. It has some big names behind it that could have supported an excellent site tremendously well,

Look at my journals. Why does failure happen? Well, reasons. Would I like to be wrong sometimes? Sure. I'm not very good at it.

I'd like to see a site come out that I can't find something wrong with. That would be the biggest indicator of potential success.

"Hey, sorrrrrry guys who have given me money and are waiting on commissions for the past four months I'm posting this journal with an obscure title of 'Just letting you know' to ensure that most of my commissioners won't actually bother to read it with the proliferation of journals they see every day, though honestly I could call it 'Commissioners, READ NOW' and a huge chunk would never see it either. No, I'm not going to use the contact information that I should have for them since I have their money. That would completely ruin the reason for this. Oh, and thank you for being 'patient' for long enough to prevent a chargeback.

Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I've been... lessee... I used sick a lot recently... run out of cats to have die... Used up all my family that I can possibly have die... Ummm... Yes! I've been burned by solar flares and my brain waves are not in an arty mood right now, so I'm really sorry. I'm going to ask if I should offer refunds because I know that there are enough rabid fans out there and suckers... er... nice people who are thrilled to hand me money and never get anything for it that the majority will say no, they'll just wait. And anybody who doesn't will be ripped to shreds by my rabid fans anyway. so they won't matter. I mean, sure, really I should like DO something for the money that you all gave me, but it's honestly just easier to not do it and throw out a story like this instead.

Oh, also, we're going to be homeless in five days because I spent all the money that you guys gave me last time on Pokemon games and a new tablet that I won't actually do any commissions with. (But you're all enjoying the YCH and Patreon advertisements, right? You'll never notice that there's never any finished work if I post enough of them.) In light of this emergency, I'm opening up for donations and fifteen more commissions. Honestly, I won't ever do the commissions any more than I've done the ones that have been waiting outstanding now. Remind me to remove this line before posting. Anyway, send money!"

"There's a sucker born every minute."
Given the annual birth rate, divided by the number of minutes in a year to determine the number of people in a minute, one of which is a sucker, round down to be polite, and assume an even disbursement of general population across FA, there are approximately 1,150 suckers browsing FA at any given time. Just find any "Woe is me, sorry commissioners!" journal and look for them in the comments. They're easy to spot.

Exciting news for animators:
OpenToonz is released.

Yes, this is the professional quality software that was used to make most Studio Ghibli animated works, including Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke for the US folks). The page talks about some awesome things that are great for professional workflows, however on a quick peek, the software also has some things that are really exciting for amateur animators also that do some wonderful stuff.

So save all your moneys! Then go get it for free and you'll still have the savings.

https://opentoonz.github.io/e/index.html

Interesting discovery...

So far March 2016 has about a 27% increase in foot fetish art already over March of 2015 volume. All further posts of foot fetish art this month will simply increase the delta.

The subject? Oh, yeah... 27% more feet. Get it?

That is all.

Hi Furry Artists!

Welcome to an open market. There are thousands of you here trying to get a share of the finite amount of money that people will throw at you.

Recently I've been seeing a glut of journals indicating "No bid for this slot, go bid!". In many cases, this turns into a passive-aggressive whine or other such negative thing. This is an interesting situation. About nine out of ten times, the reason for the lack of bids can easily be seen.

Real Life Examples:
- $20 (or higher) minimum bid to be a cock. Just. A. Cock. Or a cock and butt. Yeah...
- Character requirements are too restrictive.
- Nobody likes the person/people in the other slot/slots.
- Finished custom commission just for you is $45, $30 per extra character. Or you can bid on slot three to be one character in this pre-pose YCH starting at $60, while the other two slots were also $60 starting bid.
- Artist can't fill commission slots at $30 for a finished piece due to lack of interest and is asking higher minimum bid for one slot in a YCH
- YCH slot is... Pick one: Boring. Secondary. Not-flattering. Boring. Partially hidden. Mostly-hidden. Boring. Really Boring.

So it's a good idea to look at what's being offered with a critical eye and say "Would I want to buy this?" and also whether you think that you could reasonably convince another person to hand you money for it. If the odds are against you, evaluate why. Be smart about it. And have a backup plan for in case a slot doesn't sell, such as "Generic character" or "Doesn't happen", depending on your balance of needs.

But mainly, don't whine that nobody bid on the slot. It doesn't help you encourage people to give you money because they like you.

Today's Art Quality Advice:
More furry artists should look at how cum interacts with surfaces and gravity as well as how it appears in general.
"Huh... That looks like cheese curds on her."

The article is give or take meh or yay.

The comments? OMG... The comments...

"...that is the same as me saying "I bet you want to fuck Luigi" because your avatar is Luigi and you enjoy the [Mario Brothers] games."

"...labeling yourself as a Trekkie does not make you a slasher (Kirk/Spock sex fic fan), fluent in Klingon, or a member of the STARFLEET fan club."

And this lovely bit...

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I Bet you enjoy taking a shit, but not the sexual aspect of it. Same difference.
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Do you dress up in a special way to take a shit? Do you join clubs to take shits? Do you go on the internet to meet other people and talk about taking shits? So you meet up and shit on each other? So no, it's not the fucking same
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1.) Do you dress up in a special way to take a shit? - Yes, I don't wear my pants all the way up while I take a shit.

2.) Do you join clubs to take shits? - No, but you don't need to join a club to be a furry.

3.) Do you go on the internet to meet other people and talk about taking shits? - Umm, obviously. Look at what we are doing right now.

4.) Do you meet up and shit on each other? - No, that'd be too sexual for my tastes.

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I usually call bullshit but you seem to know what you're talking about. If you see the really mean posts I made above I take most of it back :p,,,



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Yeah, this is a gem. :)

Do you feel old? I feel old. So it's time to give a taste of feeling old to some people.

Pop Quiz! Be honest. If you don't know when you first see the question, you don't get the bonus points...

What was a.f.f. (or AFF) in the context of here?

Dear Furry Artists...

If you have to post any type of message asking people to let you know whether you owe them art, especially paid-for art, then you have failed at being both adult and professional.

There are the RARE circumstances (catastrophic record loss anyone? House fire destroys everything?) where this is less-bad, however those should be taken as learning experiences on how to keep backup records and still hurt your reputation with the group of intelligent folks who have lots of money to spend.

At the very least-bad, you are admitting that you are incapable of being responsible enough to keep accurate records and keep things up to date. You're putting the burden on people who are giving you money in good faith with the expectation that they will get something nice in return. "Watch every word I say otherwise you might accidentally be off the list and if you miss my post wherever, thanks for the free money."

Sadly, a lot of artists also use this as a way to "trim" their work load and fleece commissioners for free money without product. So when you do it, you're joining that bucket or ARE in that bucket and you are scum if you are in that bucket. Scum like that slime that forms in the dog's water dish if you just keep pouring water in for weeks at a time without ever washing it. Scum like the slime atop a Louisiana swamp.

However it's more than just "You are bad and you should feel sad about it". You may suck at keeping records, but those payment systems that get money to you from your customers don't. Your government hears about those payments and they want their share in taxes. And just because you forgot that "FrillyFilly" paid you $80 for a picture that you already spent the money from and can't get up the urge to actually draw doesn't mean the payment system forgot. And perhaps one or two or maybe more people will lie to you and tell you you owe them art when you haven't gotten a dime from them. But the moment you can prove you don't, you've just lost all credibility because you should also be able to prove who you do owe art to.

Keep accurate records. Don't screw over customers because it -will- come back to bite you in the future. And remember: The moment you post "Do I owe you art?" anywhere that smart potential-commissioners find, you've just lost a good chunk of your potential buyers. If you can't do this simple thing, stop trying to sell art until you can, unless you're fond of government tax authority letters and fines. and showing up on Artist Beware.

Furry Commissioners...
Reviewing artist history for such data requests will help you avoid deadbeat artists. Watching for such data requests and keeping your own little black book of them is helpful as well. Don't get scammed because somebody is incapable of being adult or actively trying to steal your money. No matter how nice you may think their art is, a thief is a thief and a fail is a fail.

It's gotten worse. Adblock can't handle it anymore.

20 "New Submissions". 15 of them are advertisements for streaming, sketched YCH auctions, censored and/or heavily watermarked adoptables, and other such ads.

GG FA. 75% Advert content.

It's kind of like a photobomb...

The fandom has a good variety of people that buy a lot of commissions and soon enough they'll hit up an artist who you watch for a commission that is outside their normal range of content. Oftentimes if you watch a lot of artists, you might even say "It's that character doing that thing again."

Whether it be a case of "I don't want to buy a spot in this multi-person YCH because they'll probably win the other spot" or finding an artist suddenly drawing something you'd never imagine them drawing because of the commissioner, sometimes this kind of activity has a negative impact on your enjoyment of things.

I've heard a lot of variations and a wide range of opinions on the matter, so I'm curious.

So what do you think?
Good for the artists because they're getting money or does the money not make up for the reputation damage?
Shrug and roll eyes?
Laugh at the character?
Hope they grow out of furry because you're sick of seeing them?
Watch the character owner to get allllll the stuff of them?

Soooo many possibilities.

This was a fun one and the results were surprising...

Find a picture of a female with something penetrating both her anus and her vagina.
Observe the relative size of the object in her vagina compared to the object in her anus.

It is possible to estimate the biological gender of an artist based on the relative size of the object in the depicted female's anus with about 94% accuracy.

For the purposes of this particular study, 513 images that met the specifications were located in recent Browse data.
The images were classified by whether the anal penetration object was larger or (equal to or smaller) than the vaginal penetration object in girth. Only the actual currently penetrative portion was taken into account (so if there was a normal tentacle in the front and then the smaller tip of something much-larger in the back, the smaller tip was still counted as smaller. I may reclassify at some point and take the "future intent" into consideration.)
Research along various lines was performed to determine the biological gender of the artist where possible. 72 samples were discarded as the gender of the artist could not be determined.
The art classified into four buckets initially based on combination of Male/Female artist combined with "Larger or Not-Larger anal penetration". It was then split into two buckets of "Larger anal penetration drawn by males and not-larger anal penetration drawn by females" vs "larger anal penetration drawn by females and not-larger anal penetration drawn by males".

If the remaining 441 samples:
Larger anal penetration was drawn by biological males
AND
Same-size or smaller anal penetration was drawn by biological females
in 414 of the samples.

Studying FA porn for gits and shiggles. ^.^

Disclaimers: Relatively small sample size.
Not statistically relevant.
Just For Fun, Because Reasons.

Somebody said "FA is mostly cocks".

So I checked the most recent 500 (509 actually) submissions and only 12.1% of them had cocks in them.