After tomorrow I will finally, FINALLY BE DONE uploading my stamp library 😭 Honestly if I knew it was gonna take this long I wouldn't've even bothered, this was lowkey kinda torture lolz BUT I have gotten to the end and I am DONE WITH STAMPS, and I'm excited to post some art! I'll probably upload my art similarly to how I did my stamps, in small topic related batches but idk what I should start with, so I'm asking y'all :D I have fan art, my oc art, NSFW and commissions/gift art I've done for other people! While I won't upload everything I've ever done, I will post my personal favorites/most popular arts from each subject to get my gallery started, and to give y'all a taste of what I draw >;3 So lemme know what ya wanna see (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

This looked like fun and I'm a yaposaurus rex lolz

First art site you ever joined?
Idk if you'd call it an art site but I first started my online art posting on Tumblr back in 2015

Art sites you've posted to?
Tumblr, Twitter, Buzzly, Ref Sheet, Art Fight, Patreon, Itaku (only posted to it once), Blue Sky, Sheezy, Fur Affinity, Subscribe Star, Toy House and now Zdiskuss. I did make a DA account sometime in there but after reading their TOS I decided I didn't wanna post there, I also recently made a Creative Clash account but haven't had a chance to actually participate in any of their events yet 〒▽〒

When did you start drawing?
I've been drawing ever since I can remember honestly, but I guess I didn't start taking it more seriously until I was 12-ish I guess?

What did you start drawing?
Pokémon, Neopets, animals, idk if MLP really counts cuz I was like 13 when the whole Brony thing started, same with anime, OH and A LOT of Minecraft YouTubers lolz

Did the contents of what you drew change?
Not really lolz I was born a Furry even if I didn't discover what that meant until like 2012, the only thing thats really changed is I don't draw as much anime any more

What do you prefer drawing now and why?
Furry stuff mostly, be it my own characters or fan art, I just draw what ever I'm in the mood too really

What did you use to draw and what do you use to draw now?
Back in the day it was good ol pencil and paper, then around 2015 I got my first drawing tablet (Wacom Intous Pro S) and downloaded my first drawing program (Paint Tool SAI) and that's what I've been using ever since

What are some things you wish you'd known when first starting art?
Idk really, I can't think up an answer to this question 😅 Only stuff I can think of is like advice I'd give my younger self like practice referencing more, do more shading and backgrounds, don't do free art for people, stop sitting on the floor while you draw for 8 hours straight, stuff like that

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Name: Sky but a lot people also call me Lucario or some variant of it (Lu, Luca etc)

Favorite kind of art to make: I guess art where the main focus is the character

Digital or traditional art? Digital, I lost my ability to draw good on paper years ago lolz

Art school or self-taught? For the most part self taught, I took art as a class in high school, and when I was a kid I did these "art camps" but those were mostly for fun rather than actually learning art skills

Realism or stylized art? Stylized all the way baby!

Characters or landscapes? Characters, I'm horrible at drawing landscapes or backgrounds 〒▽〒

Favorite colors: Cyan, hot pink, and turquoise

Themes or subjects in your art: I draw mostly furry stuff, be it ocs or fan art

Favorite art movements: Not sure what this question means by art movements, its probably an art history question which I know nothing about 😅 But like I guess if it means like an era of art I ADORE early 2000's furry/anime/cartoons art and art styles! I love it so much, I want my art to look exactly like it some day!

Artists who inspire you: Too many too count, but I guess if we're talking about ones that had the most influence on my style while I was learning to draw they'd probably be Vivzie Pop, Seelmaru/Seel Peel/Ground Lion/Seel Kaiser (they had a lot of names lolz), Toki Fuji, Epic Guitar/Potoo Brigham and MLP in general, there's probably more I'm forgetting but these are the ones that are jumping out at me at the moment

Movies, tv, games, music, or books that inspire you: Again too many too count but MLP, Pokémon, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, Warrior's, Lion King, Dorian Electra, S3RL, I could list off like a billion things here

Do you have OCs? Share your favorites. Yes I have many, its hard to pick any favorites tho 😅 I suppose my Fursona would have to be my fav cuz they're literally me, I guess if I were picking purely by popularity my next favorite would be my femboy bunny Cherry, he's by far everyone else's favorite when it comes to my audience lolz But I love all my ocs really, if you wanna see them I drop a link to my Toy House, it doesn't have all of them on there yet but it has my most used ones so far
https://toyhou.se/The_Great_Lucario/characters

Your biggest art strengths: I think I'm pretty good at drawing characters, I've also been honing my skills of ditching line art by just making my sketch so clean line art isn't needed (and I think I'm almost their too), I'm also pretty good at referencing, some times I worry I'm too good and people would think I'm tracing 〒▽〒

Your biggest art weakness: Shading and backgrounds >^<

Proudest art achievements: I haven't really made any achievements with my art I don't think? I guess when I was a little kid in art class the teachers wanted us to recrate The Starry Night painting but they really wanted us to use texture in our paintings, like impasto I think its called? And kid me thought the project was so stupid that I intentionally tried to make something bad lolz I layered like mountains of paint on my canvas and intentionally used the wrong colours like pinks and reds in the star swirl part, thinking "hehe this will show them" and when we were all done the teachers were so impressed with my painting that they sent it to be hung up at the school board office down town XD So I suppose if that counts as an art achievement you could say I'm proud of that in an ironic way lolz

The hardest thing about being an artist: Getting paid lolz Finding a good website to share you're art and find a community

The people who love and support your art: Uhh I'd feel a little awkward just name dropping names but there has be a user on my Patreon whos been supporting me from almost very beginning, over 5 years I think it is now they've been my only paying patron, and while its not a lot of money the support means so much more to me than that. And of course all the people who have continuously commissioned me through out the years and how have promoted me to new customers as well. And not to mention all the friends an mutrals I've made along the way =^w^=

Do you sell your art or take commissions? Yes I do! I leave a link here if you're interested! :D
https://the-great-lucario-commissions.carrd.co/#

Art Advice for your younger self: STOP SITTING ON THE FLOOR DRAWING ON A TABLET PROPPED UP BY A FOOT STOOL FOR HOURS AT A TIME YOU'RE KILLING YOUR BACK!!! Also stop doing free art requests, those people aren't your friends they just see you as a living art machine, the second you open commissions they drop you like a rock

Hewwo alien peoples, I was made aware of this site through a friend of mine and while I'm really liking the layout, I've been burned by promising art sites before (*cough cough* Buzzly *cough*) so I'm hesitant to jump straight in, so for now I'm just going to be lurking and checking out the vibes, see what future updates bring. I'm mostly waiting to see where the rules on NSFW go, if they lean towards Patreons or Sheezys rules than this site likely won't be for me, same if they go the other direction and have rules similar to Ink Bunny. But if they lean towards something more like FurAfinity than I'll likely stick around as I've been itching for a new art site post to for a while now, and much more one with an actually active community. I'd like to know what other users think tho as to what they expect or like to see of future implemented rules, be it around NSFW or other things, be a good chance to see what kinda artists are here (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧