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✨he/love/star | 21 | disabled queer furry artist and animation student!✨ 🎨 CURRENT PFP: @ritzyheartz.red 🖌 my commissions are CLOSED! 🎀 please be 16+ to follow 🎀 💫find me elsewhere, i'm also on tumblr!💫 💖https://captainstarburst.carrd.co/💖

i worked on that comic for a week on and off between classes, i'd do a page or two after i was done with my other work. i originally was going to make it polished and not just a sketch but that would've added like.. multiple more weeks worth of work. but i think the sketches still look nice!!

my first week of classes has been roughhhh i'm probably gonna be really sparsely active for a while @_@... i'm hoping to finish my last assignment tomorrow though. ohh i miss drawing my characters

i've been collecting a bunch of CDs secondhand for as cheap as i can get them and ive also got a secondhand CD player that should be here tomorrow... ooh im so excited i love music. my PC is super old so it also plays CDs but i like being able to step away from a screen while im reading lately!

AHHG i just realized at some point my dm settings on here got reset- sorry if you've tried to message me lately and couldnt!! i know they were open before cause ive gotten messages from people before... no idea what made it change ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they should work now though!

tysm to everyone who attacked me on art fight or showed love to what i made this year, i had a lot of fun experimenting and i'm really proud of everything i made and so thankful to everyone! also, keep watch for an important personal announcement soon... big things are on their way for me!

Today we would like to recognize Ken Sample aka Ken Cougar. A Black man who is credited with creating and coining the term "Fursona". While drawing one of his "Exotics" Ken drew a Cougar character that looked strikingly like himself. Attendees of this conference also wanted their own characters!

a drawing by ken sample of the character ken cougarKen cougar on a Ken Sample portfolio #1. Ken cougar is inbetween two female furries. On the left is a fox and on the right is a cheetah! There are other drawings scattered in the backroundBild

i think what i mean by all of that is that it feels very much like an "art as a product" type of thing. you're doing it to fit the trend and often the point of leaning into trends is to get the views and likes for it. but it should be about having fun... i worry we're losing that idea sometimes