I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE

If you don't like furry, it's pointless to do.

If you were actually good, you would set your own prices.

You wouldn't do that anon, you're too much of a bitch to even do that. Just look at you making your own thread and being all desperate.

You're not serious, just in a down phase.

if you're truly desperate for more money and see only furry commissions as a viable route, I hope you're okay with drawing progressively fucked up shit for an audience you don't seem to be wholly interested in.

Maybe try to get a raise or a better job? How much do you need the money?

>>2950004
i'm saving up money and want to speed up the process.

>>2950015
in that case, you can just give yourself a boost with otherwise innocuous fanart commissions. there's no need to dip into degeneracy if you can afford not to!

>>2950018
be more specific about the type of commissions.

Half of making autistic furry bux from commissions comes from being involved with that community, the other half is the skimls. Most of them will commission art from you because they consider you a friend, or one of them

>>2949984

>how much money will it earn me if I'm actually good

If you were actually good you would probably be earning good money reflective of your skill. Obviously however this isn't the case.

You wouldn't make good money if you don't already have a foothold in the community, and if you're not into furry bara stuff then not only is it going to turn out bad because you don't know what you like nor understand why others like it.

>>2950071
while this is true, they also don't have the highest of standards. OP could probably start a small gallery of pinups on inkbunny and get a shitload of followers pretty quickly, especially if they're pinups of popular characters.

I'm not a furry artist.
I've tried the various client/artist interface sites to find commissions and there too it's full of furry artists and I got 0 results.
Soon I want to try if with $ 1 dollar request get commissions.

I think the only way to have commissions is to have millions of followers on social networks.

>>2949984
>I work full time and need more money
Move away.
Excerting yourself will make you ill, which will turn into medical bills, which turn into more debt.
Take your shit and go live at a place where your skill set allows you to survive and be healthy. And don't even look back, gentrification and "competitive markets" are oligarch slavering tactics, there is no honor, pride or responsibility in taking it up the ass for some corporate crook's bottom line.

>>2949984
Smut artist make money because they enjoy the category of smut they produce. They enjoy giving other degenerates getting off from their work.
If you can't find a kink that you're open to drawing and conversing with others with you're gonna have a hard time. And just an FYI some of the people into the same kinks are so fucked in the head it will make you question why you even like it.
Now with that aside:
>I work full time and need more money
Working a full time job and doing art (earnestly) is a slow burn and can be taxing. If you're willing to put in the work and take your time then you'll be fine.
>How much money will drawing furry bara get me?
Depends on the audience you find. A bunch of broke faggots looking to bust their nut aren't going to support you much, weirdos who are really really into the shit with OCs and fanfics will dole out the dough.
>Now how much will it earn me if I'm actually good?
You don't have to be "good". There are smut artist out there who toss together shitty line work together that get a following and make a little dosh. Should you improve that's a plus and will draw in more low lives.
>What if I remove all restrictions and draw ANYTHING they want so long as they keep the transaction private through email?
You don't want to do that. Having no standards will hurt you more than help because as disgusting and low as people who commission porn are some of them will get turned off if you draw stuff that's too far out there. The majority of bara fags love bara and some combination of it with other fetishes, but if there is a few people commissioning bara/scat more than others are commissioning anything else it will turn them away.
All they see of your work is bara/scat and will think that's all you do and they won't come to you for commissions.
And telling people to keep commissions "private" won't work because they'll want to share the work.

We have these exact fucking threads constantly.

>>2949984
>I work full time and need more money
Why do you need more money? Is a full time job not paying you enough to live off??
>How much money will drawing furry bara get me?
It depends on what you do but honestly the biggest market isn't bara
>Now how much will it earn me if I'm actually good?
It can vary from way below minimum wage to over 100k, there are too many variables and there's no secret to success
>What if I remove all restrictions and draw ANYTHING they want so long as they keep the transaction private through email?
If you keep the transaction private how will anyone know you draw fucked up shit and know to come to you for that stuff? Besides fucked up shit is a dead end direction in furry, there are a few that a lot of money to spend on the stuff but you will never make enough to retire from it. If you want to make serious money in furry you have to take the long road and appeal to the mass market which is pretty furry females
>I'm serious.
You're emotionally unstable right now and are not thinking clearly about your situation

>>2949984
Please be my gf, I'll pay!

>>2949984
Just draw pokemon porn and mlp getting dicked. Its easy. O-of course, this is what ive heard.

I usually see pretty good artist asking whatever the want on good drawings, and I figure that if they really wanted to charge for furry scat in a time on need, they could get people asking for comissions by the second.

Can a good artist confirm that this is not true? Or is OP not as good as he says.

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>>2949984
Hi, OP!
Furfag here to help you.
Are you serious about this? It could be a good way to improve your anatomy skills while making some money. It's not going to be fruitful unless you're smart about it though.

You probably don't want to draw bara unless it appeals to you. Vore is pretty popular, but you could also just do cute little girly characters like http://itsunknownanon.tumblr.com . Maybe a little more complex, still gets hundreds of notes on tumblr tho. http://furryandvorestuff.tumblr.com does $10 commissions that take them literally 10 minutes. Draws a lot of vore but also draws their own OCs, vore is really popular in the furry community.
Anyways, pick a general fetish focus that does in fact appeal to you so you can draw appealing art and not get tired. Draw OCs you find appealing and cute and perhaps make comic strips if that is up your alley. Start a patreon and put a commission post [tumblr] and create a commission page [furaffinity].

FA is the easiest place to find commissions, tumblr being second, probably. You're going to need a paypal with your name on it, chances are. No furry is going to pay you in BTC.
Start by drawing your fursona, some OCs, and some fanart of popular people's fursonas for traffic. Open up once you have ~100 followers.
As a note, you can just do cute gay stuff.
http://tokifujicomics.tumblr.com he draws for hardblush I believe (she?)
really popular. It doesn't need to be that fucked up. But yeah, make sure your blog has a focus cause people following for vore won't follow if there's inflation there too. Make sure your audience can at least be okay with all your work. Drawing everything will be worse for you than drawing one kink and being good at it. You wouldn't subscribe to a magazine that's half shit in your eyes, right?

hope this can help : ]
ps draw my fursona

>>2950516
ill be ur gf!

>>2950542
o and make sure ur FA links to ur tumblr/inkbunny and vice versa.

I don't know if it's worth your effort but if you do go through with it i hope i helped

>>2950542
>>2950543

Thank you anon, this is pretty helpful for an aspiring furfag artist.

>>2950560
best of luck out there!

>>2950087
its nothing to do with standards, autistic furries that have autism bucks generally only commission from other furries they know and think of as a friend. Whether you have skills or not won't matter because as soon as you open comission you'll "trickle" at best.

Most of the stories you hear about artists paying off college/university through furry art, they usually mention how they dove into hell and befriended the fucks. Networking is super important. And even then you're not likely to be able to charge 500 dollars for a 2 hour drawing, those are edge cases.

From the sounds of it, OP is just going to make an FA account, open commissions, make maybe 100 bucks a month doing shit he doesn't even like and then complain about the "furry drawfag" meme

Easiest thing to do is adopt a cute artstyle, adopt a cutesy/ditsy personality with a slight hint of autism, find a kink to apply to your donut steels and make it sexual if its not, network as much as he can on Tumblr/FA, and then in a few months, open up that his life is shit and open a patreon

>>2950575
They also commission those they are a fan of. I've never commissioned a friend.

But, HAVING friends who will reblog your commission post and spread the word will increase your chances. You do need to be a part of the community.

Like $80 per finished piece if you're good like hensa, like $200 if you're legit fucking amazing, and then you will get much less commissions.

qtipps makes cute art for $30 a piece.
Check them out, OP.

your advice is good, just wanted to add. Networking's real important, anon is right.

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>>2950577
How do you network as a friendless schizoid?

>>2950542
>vore is really popular in the furry community.

Learn two new things today. What is vore and that the fur community is more fucked up than I previously thought.


And what is this about fursonas. I get that it's a roleplaying thing but can they only have one? Are fursonas what identify the hardcore fur community or do they consider anybody who doesn't have one as too normal?

>>2950584

A fursona is useful for anyone who doesn't want to draw themselves but wants an acceptable visual representation of themselves. People use them for self-inserts too, obviously, but there are others who really don't take it that seriously.

>>2950581
dam that jawline bothers me in that pic
do fanart of other characters, act cute
idk be my friend im a furry and i understand

>>2950584
its not exactly roleplaying its just a furry version of you, but you can hop on f-list and roleplay as your fursona and be really fucking nasty.
one or more is normal, some people just like to have a lot of OCs.
fursonas are just a big part of the fandom, i have a fursona and i dont spend a lot of time on furry shit.
it's just fun if you're into it to be able to represent yourself with a cute character. i'd say what differentiates people who are less into it from those who are more into furry things are whether they go to cons, make art, just whether it intersects with their lifestyle.

im not into furry porn i just enjoy the cute side as a disclaimer

>>2950584
>And what is this about fursonas

A persona of themselves
I.E. An OC they feel is them, except furry.

>I get that it's a roleplaying thing but can they only have one?

There can be multiple, usually they switch

>Are fursonas what identify the hardcore fur community

According to new 4chan, dressing up as your fursona is hardcore and having a fursona is normal, but that's just /v/'s shit opinion

>>2950591
fursona is normal
fursuit is hardcore due to the financial investment
but seriously, they can be fun! if theyre not ugly and/or creepy

>>2950593
when is a thousand dollars a financial investment?

>>2950594
more like 2k for a nice toony suit and more for a kemono suit
it's a large expenditure for a hobby and implies you go to cons and stuff
but there's nothing wrong with being into furry stuff, i dont know why it's defined as 'hardcore' and not just involved.

I tried, OP, but hell this is so stressful. If you don't like something you will never able to draw this shit good. It's like working at shit job. Really not worth it

You don't want to go down the furry route brother. I refused to draw anthro characters four years ago. Worked on some collar shit with an anthro artist and now I'm drawing a comic where the main characters are a human dude and an anthro animal girl with a "will they won't they?" subtext.

The worst part about it is that even my normal, non-furry followers seem to like it.

>>2950600
*collab

>>2950600
That sounds cute. Post it.

>>2950584
>the thing about furries is that curries aren't just furry. They usually incorporate like every other fetish and that's the part that makes them awful. If they just got off to Bugs and Lola fucking that's one thing. But they have an affinity for seriously dysfunctional shit, like Shadow swallowing Sonic whole or drawing Donkey Kong in a stomach being digested looking scared. Or guro shit. Or all the diaper faggotry.

No, I take it back. The worst part is that they're all liars about the sexual aspect. They act like normies are bigots for thinking they are all about sex, but they are literally 100% about sex.

Then there was that incident with all the used adult diapers in that hotel after the furry convention.

If I'm ever in a hotel with my kid and a furry tried to act all innocent and try to hug her, I'd throw him down the stairs like that faggoty autistic dragon.
My kid ain't touching a cumsoaked AIDSuit

Asking the other furfags itt, do you guys think it's fair to adjust commission prices according to the increase of your own popularity and notes?

>>2950735
to a degree, but dont double it
like 30 or 40 for full body is fine if theres huge demand
more for paintings obv

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>>2950600
>I'm drawing a comic where the main characters are a human dude and an anthro animal girl with a "will they won't they?" subtext.
I love you for that already. Post it my man.

>>2950773
sounds like twokinds kek

>>2950473
This is an interesting point, I wouldn't comission someone who draws scat, cub, or cp.

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>>2950604
>>2950773
I haven't started posting the pages I've drawn publicly yet. I want to have to retcon as little as possible so I'm sorta private with it until I get the world and scenario built enough.
Pic related though.

>>2950783
I'm indy as fuck by design. I prefer the freedom of being unknown.

fetishes are an exaggeration of a sexual trigger
unless you actually have the fetish you probably won't know the actual turn-ons of the fetish.
fetishists would rather fap to a bad tumblr doodle that hits their kink than a master piece that doesn't.
but its not impossible to sell fetish art for a fetish you don't have. If you look at other works and immerse yourself in the community you can figure out what the fetishists are looking for. Browse /d/ threads and use your detective skill to figure out what the turn on and whats a turn off, anons will frequently make comments in those threads like
>holy shit [X] is god tier I love how he draws [Y]
or
>stop posting [X] his art is garbage, I mean just look at his fucked up [Y]

>>2950811
This is cute anon. Keep the good work up!

>>2949984
O hey I did this and its my main source of income when freelance is slow.

It'll take a solid month to build a following, if you're above the average skill of FA you don't have to really worry about weird fetish porn to make money, but it will help you gain followers faster and get more slightly higher paying commissioners.

Build a following, post a ton for a month at least and have a few hundred followers. Then open commissions and make sure you have all your rules stated. Be friendly, dont post personal opinions to avoid getting put is a spotlight you dont want to be in (if you're trying to do art professionally at some point dont give anyone a reason to try and doxx you or some shit. Make sure this account is completely unrelated to you).


You could easily make around $40-$50 a pop (or a lot more depending on how good you are and if its painted vs lineart).

Get a quick but good porn style, don't draw stuff you find disgusting even if you need the money.

I started out doing that and quickly realized I could make just as much doing pretty vanilla content, only now half my following came from drawing nasty shit that I dont want to do anymore.
its a bit awkward if a previous commissioner wants the same thing from you but you no longer do that.
Take it from me and just avoid that entirely unless you like it. Bara/chubby and maybe mild fetish stuff is fine if you're at least somewhat decent and post a lot.

Posting a lot is the main thing desu.

>>2950843
Is it though? I hear a fair bit about the negatives of "spam posting" on sites like deviantArt and FA. Even if it's high quality stuff.
Is there anything to that or are the people complaining about that just bitter nitpickers?

>>2950859
post frequently, at least once every other day.
trust me, people wont check back as much if you rarely make content.
unless you spam shit sketches youll be fine
big vore blog i know does 2-3 daily

>>2950859
well by post a lot I dont mean spam. Post every other day or at least once or twice a week. Not 50 things at once. and somewhat quality stuff, if you're posting tons of sketches that are getting like 3 favs then its not really worth sharing more sketches of that quality.

if you're posting once or twice a week and get at least 50 favs per post and a dozen or so new watchers then you'll get somewhere where you can do commissions. If its porn it shouldnt be that hard.

Fanart is great for this kind of thing also.

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>>2950783
twokinds does make a shitton of autismbux ( like 3,5k a month) for a panel a week

this shit has been going for 13 years and he started at literal fucking mspaint level

aspire to be twokinds, you'll have made it then

>>2950966
i really need to start making money with art. ill pretty much do anything. im gonna try out furfags, generic tumblr anime overwatch fanart shit, adoptables, i will try selling some irl paintings of landscapes, whatever. i love drawing, but if im really gonna live off of it, im pretty much ready to hack it up if i need to. if this is my only skill, i wanna make it count.