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FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


This thread is obviously :nws: and sometimes :nms:

When I was in my early twenties, I went through a period where I was in very bad living conditions. I'm not going to talk very much about that because it's a bummer, but in any case I needed a lot of money and I needed it quickly. I was used to doing standard commissions for people, but a friend tipped me off that I could make more reliable money doing fetish art. And so for the next oh, fiveish years I drew fetish porn to pay my rent. Now, when I say fetish art, I don't mean just some light pin up work. I started out that way, but quickly found that doing niche fetishes paid more- much, much more. Whereas a standard pin up/vanilla porn commission paid me about 75-100$, niche fetish art paid 300-1000$ per commission. Yes, I'm serious. People will pay you a lot of money to help them get a boner. I started out with more standard niche fetishes- feet, bondage, your usual poo poo everyone knows about. But over time, word got out that as long as I was paid accordingly, I'd draw just about anything. And so the perverts came and my rent got paid.

First things first, I'm not going to be posting any of my old art, and as well will not be revealing the names or identities of any of my clients. I will also not draw your weird fetish art, because honestly you couldn't pay me enough to and also I don't wanna know what goons get off too. I will, however, tell you how I went about my business, tell you the weirder stories and answer any other questions.

How did you start getting fetish commissions?
Honestly, it was simpler than you'd think. All I had to do was make a furaffinity account and start posting art and put up a notice saying I was open for commission. Furries have a ton of expendable income for the most part, and are more than happy to pay someone to draw their fursona, both sexually and not. Over time, people would recommend me to their friends and then my commissions really took off. And I wasn't particularly good at the time, either. I was just willing to draw what most other people wouldn't/charged less than the more popular artists at the time.

Did people try to get you to participate with them?
Yeah, more than a few times. Eventually I put up a notice in my general commission info that while I was happy to do their commissions, I did not want or need to participate or receive pictures of their dicks/vags/cum. I also ended up having to block a guy across many, many platforms.

Did anyone IRL know?
My roomates and friends at the time did. I was very casual about it.


Here's a list of stories for y'all to choose what you'd like to hear first.

I want a salmon in that lady's vagina
Bimbo the Magical Pony
Put a bee cock on that dragon
Cum golems R Us

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betamax hipster
Aug 13, 2016
Did stuff people asked for mostly fall into "weird but recognizably a fetish", "totally incomprehensible" or "oh, god, how could you look at this on purpose?"

Was there ever anything you had to turn down for being too gross to consider drawing?

Were payments just through Paypal or something? Was nonpayment ever an issue? Did anyone ever try to get you to take something in trade?

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


betamax hipster posted:

Did stuff people asked for mostly fall into "weird but recognizably a fetish", "totally incomprehensible" or "oh, god, how could you look at this on purpose?"
At first, it was mostly just the first one. Mostly just standard stuff like "Hey I have a foot fetish" or "I have a fetish for armpits" or "I want someone to step on my boner". Eventually it started getting into "why does this give you or anyone else a boner" territory, where I just kinda bemusedly drew someone's cum inflation porn while wondering why that was a thing, and I only did a few that I was like "never commission me again and also do not ever contact me again, what the actual gently caress".


betamax hipster posted:

Was there ever anything you had to turn down for being too gross to consider drawing?
I had a few things I refused to draw at all. Scat, watersports, most guro, rape/noncon, that kind of thing.


betamax hipster posted:

Were payments just through Paypal or something? Was nonpayment ever an issue? Did anyone ever try to get you to take something in trade?


Payments were through paypal, yes. And nonpayment was an issue sometimes, until I started insisting for half up front, and then I'd send a small, grainy preview of the final. They'd then send the other half and I'd send them the full resolution picture.

roomforthetuna
Mar 22, 2005

I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!
Was it digital drawing, or physical drawing then scanning?
Could you show us the style of the drawings with something completely innocent?

Grandmother of Five
May 9, 2008


I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
I'm amazed at the kind of things people are into, and how much they are apparently willing to pay, so I've got a couple of questions about that :)

The really expensive stuff, like the 1.000US$ commissions, I'm assuming it is partially based on an hourly rate and that it just adds up, but did stuff generally cost more when it is weird, and is there any kind of artists/community census on what kind of stuff is considered weird and to charge a lot for? Was there any kind of specific kink/fetish that you would consistently charge extra for drawing?

Do you have any personal take on how people get into weirder stuff? Like, if it isn't hurting anyone, I'll try not to be judgemental, but I just plain don't get how people develop or discover that they are into like the concept of getting hosed by an octopus while falling off a building or whatever.

if you have a couple of examples of the most outlandish kinks or fetishes, then please share a couple of those. I mean more like outlandish stuff than gross stuff, btw. Like, benign stuff that is just completely left-field & bizarre.

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


roomforthetuna posted:

Was it digital drawing, or physical drawing then scanning?
Could you show us the style of the drawings with something completely innocent?

It was digital, yeah. I'm a digital artist for the most part, although I stopped doing commissions to deal with some health issues. I'm undecided on the second part. Maybe at some point, but I also don't want people to be able to find my work based on my style. People are lovely and I don't like being doxxed.


Grandmother of Five posted:

I'm amazed at the kind of things people are into, and how much they are apparently willing to pay, so I've got a couple of questions about that :)

The really expensive stuff, like the 1.000US$ commissions, I'm assuming it is partially based on an hourly rate and that it just adds up, but did stuff generally cost more when it is weird, and is there any kind of artists/community census on what kind of stuff is considered weird and to charge a lot for? Was there any kind of specific kink/fetish that you would consistently charge extra for drawing?

Do you have any personal take on how people get into weirder stuff? Like, if it isn't hurting anyone, I'll try not to be judgemental, but I just plain don't get how people develop or discover that they are into like the concept of getting hosed by an octopus while falling off a building or whatever.

if you have a couple of examples of the most outlandish kinks or fetishes, then please share a couple of those. I mean more like outlandish stuff than gross stuff, btw. Like, benign stuff that is just completely left-field & bizarre.

Back in the day I didn't really understand how to price my commissions, so I'd just throw out the number that I thought was fair enough for everyone involved. It takes me roughly a day to make a standard non-porn commission, and about the same for a porn one, give or take when it comes to the complexity of the piece. I did charge more for things that I didn't like/grossed me out, although I never said this was why. It was my "you are killing my soul" tax. As for other fetish artists, they were much smarter than I am and charged based on what they charged hourly. Some professional fetish artists pay themselves 60$ an hour, for example, and charge accordingly. I was a dumb poo poo who was in college and dealing with a booze problem and other lovely life problems, so I just did whatever would cover rent/food/bills/booze. I always charged more for MLP porn commissions when that show was rebooted, because drawing it killed my childhood. Suck it, bronies.

I think people get into weirder stuff through a combination of loneliness, immersion, and just not giving a gently caress anymore. Of course, some people, like fish vagina guy, were aware that their fetishes were weird and had no idea how they got them, for the most part it was people who'd ended up in a sort of slippery slope. Picture a lonely outcast sort of person. Maybe they don't have a lot of social interaction, or they hang out with other outcasts. They don't have a significant other most of the time, so they have to take care of things themselves. Now, let's also say this person is a furry. (Note: I actually don't mind furries, they were some of the most polite clients I had.) So this lonely furry starts by looking at furry porn, which, while somewhat weird is still in the realm of vanilla kinks. Only, one of their favorite artists starts posting some weirder poo poo. Let's say like, idk, cum fetish work. The furry likes their favorite artist, and they still get a boner to the work, so they yank it to the cum fetish work and fine they really like the idea of it. So they start searching out other cum fetish art. And then they find cum fetish art that also includes a little bit of bulging kink (where there's either so much cum or such a big dick in there that the stomach bulges out slightly) and they really like that. And that goes on and on until eventually this furry is yankin' it to hypercock cum inflation porn.

I think most fetishes/kinks are like that, actually, even "vanilla" or "socially acceptable" ones. Like, take BDSM for example. It's almost mainstream as a kink at this point, and yet it's the same sort of deal. Someone liked the idea of maybe tying up their girlfriend or whatver, maybe putting a blindfold on... you get the idea.

roomforthetuna
Mar 22, 2005

I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!

Sociopastry posted:

I'm undecided on the second part. Maybe at some point, but I also don't want people to be able to find my work based on my style. People are lovely and I don't like being doxxed.
Fair enough. I was mostly going for an answer to a whole group of questions in a succinct way that would probably be of interest to others, but if we can't do that, maybe it's better to just do the group of questions - is it cartoon-style or realistic or (I don't know, impressionist?)? Is it vector art, photo manipulation or paint style, or do you switch it around based on what the commission requests? What tools did you use?

BiggerJ
May 21, 2007

What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.
Have your experiences influenced your opinion of fetishists in general and furries specifically?

I once read about someone in your position coming to hate both themselves and art - did you experience anything like that?

Did the subject matter you drew play a role in you quitting, or was it entirely because of health issues? Would you still do fetish and/or non-fetish commissions if it weren't for those issues?

What advice do you have for people who do fetish commissions purely for money? And if that advice is 'don't', what do you think of those who do?

BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Jul 8, 2017

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


roomforthetuna posted:

Fair enough. I was mostly going for an answer to a whole group of questions in a succinct way that would probably be of interest to others, but if we can't do that, maybe it's better to just do the group of questions - is it cartoon-style or realistic or (I don't know, impressionist?)? Is it vector art, photo manipulation or paint style, or do you switch it around based on what the commission requests? What tools did you use?

Mostly it was very high-saturation color and a painterly style. I would change up my style if the client asked and paid for it. I used paint tool SAI and later on, Krita. I now use photoshop for my current work (not porn, I stopped two years or so ago). I posted some of my current work in the digital art thread, if you wanna get a better idea.


BiggerJ posted:

Have your experiences influenced your opinion of fetishists in general and furries specifically?

I once read about someone in your position coming to hate both themselves and art - did you experience anything like that?

Did the subject matter you drew play a role in you quitting, or was it entirely because of health issues? Would you still do fetish and/or non-fetish commissions if it weren't for those issues?

What advice do you have for people who do fetish commissions purely for money? And if that advice is 'don't', what do you think of those who do?

Not really, to be honest. I've always been a pretty sex positive person and my general outlook on life is "don't be a dick." as long as people aren't trying to involve me in their fetishes, I don't really care what they do. That said, I was certainly unaware of the sheer vastness and variation in internet fetishes. I specify internet fetishes because something about the internet warps fetishes.

I don't hate myself or my art- at least, not because of my previous work. I did come to dislike people in general there for a while, and I had a long period of time where I'd side-eye people and wonder if they were one of the people that wanted me to draw cockvore or whatever.

It was mostly because of my health issues, burnout, and general distaste that crept up on me. I like art, and I like doing art. What I didn't like was the constant onslaught of people insisting that I give them a discount or can't you give me a freebie this once or it's my birthday shouldn't you draw my fetish for free- you get the idea. I do still do non-fetish commissions now and then, when I need a little extra cash. I don't do them on a regular basis anymore, because I'm focusing on my other pursuits. I'm currently writing a book and getting my certification for medical transcription, as well as focusing on my health. I've got quite a few health issues and mental health issues that I need to get sorted before I can think about taking on the workload I used to do.

My advice to people who want to get into fetish art- set your boundaries and keep them. Furries in general are actually pretty okay people- they're fairly polite and most are aware of how they're perceived, and therefore don't press for much. That said, there's always assholes, and they'll go out of their way to hound you to make them what they want. Some people actually have a fetish just for that- getting someone to participate in their fetish and be uncomfortable with it. So make sure you know how to block people and cover your tracks. I'd also advise people to go to the furry community first for commissions. Be friendly and polite, post a lot of art, and be consistent in your quality and be honest with yourself on the amount of work you can handle. I did roughly three to five commissions a week, and that was all I could handle. Some people do more, some do less.

My opinion of other fetish artists is the same as anyone doing other kinds of art. Some people do it for money, some do it just for the kick of it. All in all, as long as people are honest about their art being fetishistic, I'm cool with them. My problems with other fetish artists arise when they insist that their art isn't fetish art, and post it in spaces where minors or people who are uncomfortable/nonconsenting to their fetish post. Then it's a dick move.

redeyes
Sep 14, 2002

by Fluffdaddy
Do you have any opinion about helping (enabling) people with mental problems.

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


I'm not sure what you mean there, friend. Explain?

redeyes
Sep 14, 2002

by Fluffdaddy
Just most of these type of fetishes accompany mental problems.

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


my view is that 1.) I am not qualified to help people with mental illnesses, 2.) as long as their fetishes don't hurt anyone I don't really care outside of a "that's weird, why does that give you a boner".

redeyes
Sep 14, 2002

by Fluffdaddy
fair enough

money is money afterall

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


yup. at the point where I was doing fetish art, as well, my own mental illnesses were in full swing. That's the whole reason I was doing it in the first place- I wasn't able to hold down a job, and I still needed to pay rent.

BiggerJ
May 21, 2007

What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.

Sociopastry posted:

I don't hate myself or my art- at least, not because of my previous work. I did come to dislike people in general there for a while, and I had a long period of time where I'd side-eye people and wonder if they were one of the people that wanted me to draw cockvore or whatever.

How did this affect your life? Did getting over it coincide with quitting, or did it happen earlier/later?

Have you communicated with any other fetish artists who do/did it for the money, anbd if so, how did they tend to be affected?

What advice do you have for anyone in your position who ends up feeling like you did?

BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jul 9, 2017

twerking on the railroad
Jun 23, 2007

Get on my level

Sociopastry posted:

my view is that 1.) I am not qualified to help people with mental illnesses, 2.) as long as their fetishes don't hurt anyone I don't really care outside of a "that's weird, why does that give you a boner".

So was it all dudes as far as you could tell?

big dyke energy
Jul 29, 2006

Football? Yaaaay
My girlfriend's drawn furry porn for a living for about the past ten years. It honestly pays pretty well and it's nice that she has a guaranteed $700 coming in every month from patreon, on top of the ~$1000 or so from commissioners. It's good work if you don't mind all your customers being complete weirdos.

It is kind of funny to walk into the living room and there's a tenderly rendered giant dragon ding dong on her monitor.

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


BiggerJ posted:

How did this affect your life? Did getting over it coincide with quitting, or did it happen earlier/later?

Have you communicated with any other fetish artists who do/did it for the money, anbd if so, how did they tend to be affected?

What advice do you have for anyone in your position who ends up feeling like you did?

It didn't affect my life outwardly- it was more of a constant subconscious knowledge that any of the people in the line at the grocery store with me could be that weird person that was super into ovipositors. It did, however, factor into my deciding to quit. That, and no matter how sex positive you are, there's only so long you can stare into the gaped rear end in a top hat of the abyss.

Some fetish artists I've talked to really enjoyed their work! But then, they were also usually artists that worked in a specific fetish they enjoyed, instead of doing what I was doing, which was to take nearly any request as long as the pay was good enough. Fetish art can be fun and enjoyable, but for me it was more of a mercenary thing than something I did out of enjoyment.

My advice- quit, or start only dealing in work that you're happy to work on. Burnout is a real thing.


twerking on the railroad posted:

So was it all dudes as far as you could tell?

Mostly dudes, yeah. I'd say it was like, 85% dudes, 10% ladies, 5% nonbinary/gender nonconforming peeps. Pretty much every time I'd get a commission request, it'd be from a guy. Do also keep in mind tho that I have the sense of humor of a 12 year old and just think the word boner is funny.


Magikarpal Tunnel posted:

My girlfriend's drawn furry porn for a living for about the past ten years. It honestly pays pretty well and it's nice that she has a guaranteed $700 coming in every month from patreon, on top of the ~$1000 or so from commissioners. It's good work if you don't mind all your customers being complete weirdos.

It is kind of funny to walk into the living room and there's a tenderly rendered giant dragon ding dong on her monitor.

Oh for sure. Fetish art is very lucrative! It's just a matter of being honest about what you can handle and being open to people who are into things you aren't.

My roomates at the time often enjoyed sitting and watching me draw the weirder porn, because to be honest nothing is quite as funny as watching someone draw a salmon in a vagina when you're stoned.

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

please tell us about the vagina salmon :allears:

BiggerJ
May 21, 2007

What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.
Would you say that accepting commissions of almost any fetish - thus having a blacklist instead of a whitelist, or at least not just saying 'I reserve the right to turn down anything I'm not comfortable with' - is something literally no fetish commission artist should ever do?

What do you think of people who hate furries, and the widespread stigma around furries?

BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Jul 10, 2017

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


BiggerJ posted:

Would you say that accepting commissions of almost any fetish - thus having a blacklist instead of a whitelist, or at least not just saying 'I reserve the right to turn down anything I'm not comfortable with' - is something literally no fetish commission artist should ever do?

What do you think of people who hate furries, and the widespread stigma around furries?

Oh for sure. I mean, I had poo poo that I wouldn't do- scat, piss, maggots, bugfucking, etc. But for the most part I took any and all comers (:v:) because I was desperate for money. And I did make a lot of money- but not enough to balance out the grosser poo poo.

Furries are... well, they're still weird, no doubt about it, but they're not as bad as people think. Like everything, there's people who are just into it in a casual way- maybe they just like the anthro style or like to pretend to be someone else once in a while... and then there's the fuckin' creeps that devote their whole life to it. IMO, anyone who devotes their life to a fetish is weird and usually pretty creepy, but the ones who are just casually into it don't bother me much. Plus the furries were mostly some of the most polite clients I had. They (with a few exceptions) paid on time, left tips, recommended me to their friends- just great to work with. It was the bronies that were awful.


ninjewtsu posted:

please tell us about the vagina salmon :allears:

You got it!

I want a salmon in that lady's vagina!

So around the second year of doing fetish art, I started getting weirder requests. One of them was the person I affectionately call "fish vagina guy". Now, fish vagina guy (FVG for short) was honestly one of the most pleasant people I'd ever worked with. He contacted me through one of my previous clients and asked if I was still taking commissions. I said yes, and he said "I have a really weird fetish and I understand if you don't want to do it" and I asked what it was. His fetish was that he wanted a fish to swim up a lady's fairy cave. I laughed a lot, I'll admit. I then replied that I would 100% love to take this commission. Now, FVG was aware of how weird this was, and paid well for it- he wanted a small comic done of a lady in the middle ages, who goes for a swim/sits in the moat of her castle. As she sits in the moat, she gets a little frisky and starts touching herself. Then, drawn by the... idk, pheromones? A salmon swims up and into her snatch. That was it, that was the comic.

And it was one of the stupidest, funniest thing I have ever drawn. I was in the middle of drawing the salmon trying to swim up into her and one of my roommates walked in, high as a kite. He asked if I was working, I said yes, he asked if he could see, I said yes. He took one look at the panel and started laughing so hard he ended up pissing himself. Anyway, I finish the comic and send it back to FVG- he thanks me for doing this, because he actually had the original problem of a fetish in that he could not get a boner without vagina fish. He left a massive tip too- 200$ on top of the 700$ commission price.

I didn't hear anything from FVG for years after that- until one day he emails me out of the blue and asks if I'd like to do another commission for him. I said yes immediately, even though by this time I'd mostly stopped doing fetish art. He said "my fetish has changed a little". Apparently, instead of needing to see one big fish swim up a lady's hoohah, he now needed a bunch of tiny fish in there instead, all the way up into the uterus. Suffice it to say, I took the commission gleefully. At the end of the comic I had to draw an x-ray panel where the lady of the castle had a fuckton of pretty goldfish all swimmin' around in her uterus, hence the thread title. He paid me 1200$ including a tip for it.

Honestly, if FVG managed to get a hold of me again and asked for another commission, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Funny, not super gross, and the guy was self-aware and polite. Would recommend as a client.

E: for those of you that wanted an example of my art, y'all can have this stupid doodle I made for a friend to piss them off. :nws: http://imgur.com/a/VR9cS :nws:

FluxFaun fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Jul 10, 2017

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

You're doing the lord's work helping bonerless people get boners with your illustrated vaginaquariums.

Godspeed.

Udenpah
Mar 26, 2007
To see the mote that I preferred to all the lists of clay
I was reading this thread at a bar while a friend was using the bathroom and, as he came back, this is the bold line of text he saw on my phone:

Sociopastry posted:


I want a salmon in that lady's vagina!


I had to give him your spiel to explain how that series of words came to be. His bemused confusion instantly vanished, though, the second I mentioned your cash haul for drawing a sultry salmon slalom, saying "Jesus, for that price I'd put a salmon in my own rear end and just send him the picture." So, uh, thank you for sharing your story.

Also, here's a vote for bee cocks and their delicate appointment to dragons.

The Repo Man
Jul 31, 2013

I Remember...
Did you ever do the convention scene, or did you stick strictly to online commisions?

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


Udenpah posted:

I was reading this thread at a bar while a friend was using the bathroom and, as he came back, this is the bold line of text he saw on my phone:


I had to give him your spiel to explain how that series of words came to be. His bemused confusion instantly vanished, though, the second I mentioned your cash haul for drawing a sultry salmon slalom, saying "Jesus, for that price I'd put a salmon in my own rear end and just send him the picture." So, uh, thank you for sharing your story.

Also, here's a vote for bee cocks and their delicate appointment to dragons.

Ho man. hooooo man.

So, at the time, I was still doing mostly "tame" fetishes, like anthro/furry, feet, bondage etc. I get this commission from a new client saying he has a specific fursona he wants me to draw pin up style. I say sure, that's fine. Pin ups are easy, right? Well, here's the thing. The dude loving loves bee cocks. Now, take a second, and google "honeybee penis". I'll wait. Okay, now. That's what he wants. So I say "so your fursona is a bee?" and he says no, don't be stupid- his fursona's a dragoness. I say "ah" while I'm inwardly :psyduck:ing. So he describes his fursona to me: a black dragon with luminous silver stripes, silver goo-hair, antennae and a big gently caress-off bee cock that drips honey instead of cum. He was extremely detailed in her measurements, too. It had to be exact, or he wasn't going to commission me. I do the commission, the dude's happy, and all goes well.

But I never really got over beecock dragon. On the plus side, I got really good at drawing slime/honey.


The Repo Man posted:

Did you ever do the convention scene, or did you stick strictly to online commisions?

I stuck to online commissions. I didn't want people being able to connect my face to my work at the time, and I didn't feel safe as someone who presents as female going to a convention full of horny people with no sense of social rules.

Jacobus Spades
Oct 29, 2004

Well uh.... I guess I learned a very interesting lesson about arthropod biology today :stare:

It's obvious you don't wear this on your sleeve or intend to, but has anyone who found out/knows about your fetish work ever tried to give you poo poo for it?

Was there anything that you genuinely enjoyed drawing just because the logistics of illustrating it were interesting to you? (like aside from fishgina guy type scenarios because who wouldn't enjoy that)

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


Jacobus Spades posted:

Well uh.... I guess I learned a very interesting lesson about arthropod biology today :stare:

It's obvious you don't wear this on your sleeve or intend to, but has anyone who found out/knows about your fetish work ever tried to give you poo poo for it?

Was there anything that you genuinely enjoyed drawing just because the logistics of illustrating it were interesting to you? (like aside from fishgina guy type scenarios because who wouldn't enjoy that)

I mostly just wouldn't appreciate my family finding out- I was open and honest about it with friends and lovers, because it was my livelihood and they had to be okay with it. I have had people assume that I'm more promiscuous than I am, or that I have weird fetishes (I don't, for the record.), but those people are assholes anyway.

I always enjoyed doing the anthro pin ups, beecocks nonwithstanding. It was fun trying to find the right mix of animal and human, because I've never liked the "look it's a human but with a dog face" style of antrho art. My own anthro art was much closer to the actual animals than anything else, and I still enjoy drawing animal inspired stuff to this day. I also still do (clean) MLP art for commission, because I think they're cute and colorful and fun. I took a lot from my work days and put it towards my hobby art now.

e: gently caress it, here's some of my current(ish) work so you can see generally what people were looking at.





So as you can see, my stuff is less like the classic "anime dog with hands" type of stuff that's popular in the community.

FluxFaun fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jul 11, 2017

Udenpah
Mar 26, 2007
To see the mote that I preferred to all the lists of clay
Are you telling me you didn't later cover that horse (kelpie?) in fanciful sparkles and that literally none of those merfolk have bee-cocks? Please

Joking aside these stories are great and are teaching me things. I searched for bee genitals on a database of scientific articles (PubMed) to get the state-of-the-art-knowledge on bug bits and the oldest article is about using bee venom to treat gynecological diseases (sadly in Ukrainian), while another article on a similar topic was published in a scientific journal simply known as "Herpes." Also, apparently the unique shapes of bee dongs are used to identify novel bee species. Neat

Lastly, and apologies for kind of an aside, I tried searching PubMed for "bee penis," you know, for completeness, and the top result was an article that made waves years ago "Honey bee sting pain index by body location." And oh-god-no there is a diagram showing where the author, who did the work themselves, was stung and it has entries for Scrotum and "Body of penis, dorsal aspect." Believe it or don't there are purportedly two places on the body that hurt worse to get stung on than your goddamn twig/berries. See if you can guess!

So, outside of bees joining turtles on my list of things with unexpectedly Machiavellian members, my favorite part was the final mention of getting real good at drawing honey/slime. Brought up an honest Yeesh out of me....





And on that note, when you have time, what's the deal with Cum Golems?

Chillbro Baggins
Oct 8, 2004
Bad Angus! Bad!
Nothing to add, really, just thanks for posting this thread. "Ask me about my weird job" threads are always entertaining, even more so when the stories are about weird customers.

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


Udenpah posted:

And on that note, when you have time, what's the deal with Cum Golems?

Okay, so y'all know about golems, right? I'm not talking about the ones from Jewish folklore, I'm talking about Dungeons and Dragons style golems. They're basically mindless constructs meant to do work for whomever makes them. They're usually supposed to be stone or mud or whatever. So what happens when someone pops their first boner when reading the Monster Manual? Cum Golems, that's what. I got a surprising amount of commissions for golems made out of cum. Just... mindless gently caress machines made out of someone's spunk. Sometimes it was just like, pin ups of the cum golems, but mostly they were using someone else as a depository. This usually coincided with cum inflation/ bulging/bukakke/living condom fetishes.

Also I learned a lot more about penises during the fiveish years drawing porn than I'd ever wanted to. Did you know that pigs can cum for a full 30 minutes? I do. :smith:

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I'm fairly sure that during the early days of DnD when everyone released, uh, splatbooks... with their own monsters in them, there was at least one porno addon book with jizz golems in it so that's at least D&D historically accurate? I guess?

roomforthetuna
Mar 22, 2005

I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!

Udenpah posted:

So, outside of bees joining turtles on my list of things with unexpectedly Machiavellian members, my favorite part was the final mention of getting real good at drawing honey/slime. Brought up an honest Yeesh out of me....
You know about ducks, right?

Udenpah
Mar 26, 2007
To see the mote that I preferred to all the lists of clay

Sociopastry posted:

Did you know that pigs can cum for a full 30 minutes? I do. :smith:

oh barf

Thank your story which again had challenging ideas. I think I was expecting another "just one weird guy" story, not that clayface-but-semen was a whole thing, apparently dating back to the 80s(?).

You mentioned that your commissioners were generally happy about the work. Was it ever an odd feeling to receive complements on the stranger pieces or is any feedback good? I don't mean comments that you have good line work or some such, but, like, to hear that you draw a great cum golem, that their sliminess was wonderfully rendered, and that your living condom's look of terror were everything someone ever hopped for. What do you say back to that? Truthfully, I don't know if that would be better than hearing in a very serious tone that your pig dicks need work.


roomforthetuna posted:

You know about ducks, right?

also barf

roomforthetuna
Mar 22, 2005

I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!

Udenpah posted:

also barf
And cats for that matter.

Nature is loving awful.

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


Oh, yeah. Got a ton of really awkward and gross descriptions about how much it turned them on and how hard they came. Eventually had to put up a clause in my commission rules that I didn't wanna know how good their orgasms were.

Another weird thing- not once did I receive a requires for duck dicks. Not a one. Bee cocks? Yeah. Dog dicks? All the time. Barbed cat penis? Yup! Hemipenes? All the time! Not not a single corkscrew duck dick. Weird.

Lima
Jun 17, 2012

Udenpah posted:

See if you can guess!

Eyeball and tongue? :stonklol:

Khizan
Jul 30, 2013


Udenpah posted:

Believe it or don't there are purportedly two places on the body that hurt worse to get stung on than your goddamn twig/berries. See if you can guess!

I'm gonna go with lips for one. For the second... maybe inner surface of the ear or a nostril? Eyelid? I'm pretty sure they'd both be on the face somewhere.

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

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Look out! That bee knows pressure points!

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someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Did you get many/any commissions for licensed characters, or was it mostly people wanting you to draw their original characters or fursonas doing the weird fetish stuff?

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