ReneBruni art contest
Posted 5 days agoCheck out this amazing artist Renebruni while you’re there enter her contest for a free commission art piece!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55.....#cid:179359612
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55.....#cid:179359612
Failure? or strategic withdrawal
Posted 23 days agoSo here goes more ramblings about my life. I’ve had 6 Different carriers. Not just jobs, but actual careers. I’ve been a Carpenter, Stage hand, lighting and sound technician, Auto Mechanic, Radiographer, and I’m currently an Apprentice Electrician. None of these jobs I enjoyed doing, but I wasn’t willing to suffer and devote everything to my dreams. I actually admire people who were willing to go broke, homeless, and starve to actually achieve there goals in life. I always wanted to be a musician, and I was able to get decent at playing guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals. (Tried to play drums for years too but couldn’t hack it) Two guys I know from high school have gone on to become internationally famous metal guitarists, and are touring to this day. One was a rich kid to start, the other devoted his entire existence to being a guitarist, and was destitute until he made it big in the last four years or so. I felt I had to support my family and have been scraping to get by for 20 years now. My second choice for ideal career was to be an artist, but again I refused to suffer for it and I only do it as a passive hobby. So did I fail at life? Of did I leave my career paths because I was tired of being trapped and wanted something better. I think I’m starting to understand what a mid life crisis feels like. Only I can’t afford a fancy car or dream vacation. Hell, I can barely afford gas and food. I always give up a few years into a career cause I’m fed up with the same BS day in and day out. But I know enough about nearly every skilled trade to basically fix anything and make money if I have the time and energy. If Anyone who happens to read this, has turned their dreams into a career, please let me know how you pulled it off. I’d love to know.
Guess it wasn’t a phase
Posted 2 months agoI’ve thinking back on how and when I discovered furries, or at least developed an affinity for them. I often thought it was around the time I hit puberty, but I have drawings I did of anthropomorphic characters dating back to when I was 7 years old. At that time I had a friend who happened to be a girl my age, and she used to role play as a cat. It was all innocent fun, we would record ourselves on a cassette tape doing character skits and making sound effect noises cause we were bored. Funny thing is we never dated as teenagers or adults. I used to draw pictures of her as a cat furry character. I also became obsessed with Mario bros. 3. Still my favorite video game. Wendy o koopa was my favorite character and I drew a 100 page comic starring her when I was 7 y.o. I guess my first furry cartoon crushes was Princess Sally Acorn and Lupe’ wolf, leader of the wolf tribe in the sonic and the freedom fighters cartoon, when I was 12. Gargoyles was my favorite cartoon show when I was 13-14, and Angela, Goliath’s daughter is still my number one all time favorite character. Gargoyles was my introduction to the online furry fandom around 2002 when I graduated high school. Back then it was very much an underground microcosm of a handful of websites with art or fursuiters. I’ve watched it grow into what I now consider the mainstream. So the question I pose for anyone who reads this is, what was and when was it that you decided to latch on to this fandom, or even start creating art or a fursona? I’d like to hear your furries… I mean stories lol
Talent or skill?
Posted 2 months agoOk. I don't usually ask for opinions from random people, or furries in this case, but this has been bothering me so I'm going to ask. Is Talent a pursued interest that one has spent multitudes of time practicing at to become good? Or is talent something that an individual is just born with, and they are naturally endowed with the skills to be considered among the best at what they do? I am on the side of Bob Ross in believing that talent is more like a skill you work at. I keep getting in arguments with friends and family when I bring this point up. If Talent is only something one is born with, and the abilities are god given, then I'm not talented at anything. I guess I just have skills. Because all the things I consider myself proficient in, I had to do poorly at, until I got better through trial and error, aka practice. I guess that only bothers me because I have tried so hard a my art and music over the last 25 years or so, and gotten absolutely no where with gaining recognition. obviously I'm probably just going though a mid life crisis, but as most artists can understand, an expensive sports car and younger attractive wife would not help me feel any better about my life at this point. So what do you think? Is being talented a one in a million luck of the draw? Or is talent created through hard work a dedication?