How Much Money Can Furry Art ACTUALLY Make?

You subscribe for ONE video about what party the President from Cory in the House was from and end up with notifications about fuckin furry art

You're really cute 🥰

If u played animal jam, club penguin or moshi monsters growing up u are now a furry sorry I don’t make the rules I speak from experience HAHAH

thank you so much for putting this up T0T I don't make furry art, but I DO make adult content, and it's unbelievably frustrating hearing people say that it's just a shortcut/of course you're gonna get attention, look at what you're doing--as if it doesn't take a ridiculous amount of skill to get to that point
I know I make good stuff, but because I've been posting consistently through all the various 🔞content bans over the 5+ years, I think I've been flagged by every major platform in some way. That, combined with the rolling algorithm changes everywhere and me needing to focus more on health than talking online, means that I'm barely getting into the double digits of engagement. It feels absolutely awful to have so many people go, "Wow, you're so good, you should do commissions," and have to sit there and explain to them the soul-crushing reality of being a small artist--that unless you get unbelievably lucky and/or you have friends who can boost you a bit, it seems like you need a year of intense focus on social media management bare MINIMUM to even be a blip on any kind of radar at all. So like.... Thank you for making this and focusing a lot on how impossible it is to rig the system the way people think (┬┬﹏┬┬)

Keep on practicing, can only improve with time.

Not me thinking you were an artist trying this and found out you didn’t draw💀

Oh my gosh, this is such a fun experimental video! It's true that you need to have a large following or a become well-known artist in the community to get a large amount of commissions. I just started to open up commissions last month as a trial and was surprised by the demands, so I've been thinking of opening it for real this month.

My animator friends also introduced me to the world of furries, but unfortunately I don't have a fursona XD so anything works as long as it's an OC I believe.

I can't believe you chose musker, I completely forgot that it means that.

As furry artists...
You are in the good road

i started drawing furries because i can't draw humans (or well, i can't draw human faces + it was the natural progression from MLP:FiM... which i've now returned to-)

now, i'm autistic and faces scare the living shit out of me.
i don't like em at all
furries work because they're essentially human bodies with a animal face, animal faces i can draw, boom, furry artist

It's not easy.

Your life would have been much easier if you raised the line correction/stabilization!
It makes your lines not wobbly! 🫴✨️

If you want to improve your digital art alot instantly figure out how to turn on pen pressure, and stabilization. There's a setting on krita, so I suggest looking up a tutorial. It makes your lines look a lot better and closer to your lines on a piece of paper.

Bro i need to make Bryan the lizard fanart lol even if i dont have any idea of how to draw a lizard

Im gonna start doing commissions stuff…what ever pay the bills 🙏🗿

$5? That’s like a whole meal at Mc Donald’s I’d call that a W 🍷🗿

BRO. I GOT BOTH OF THOSE SCAM GUYS. WTF. It was 2 weeks ago, I was slowly growing on IG and randomly those two messaged me about buying my some of my art work. I'm SOOO glad I rejected them, I didn't even know they were trying to scam me. I rejected them completely off of intuition. Wow.

i mean at least its not AI art

wtf

Been living off furry commissions for the last like...15 years?
Obviously when I was newer, I made less - nowadays I make about $21-23k/year. Trust me, that's a lot less than it sounds like, especially given it's my only source of income. lol

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I do draw explicit art as part of that living and there is nothing wrong with that, thank you very much :/

I done furry art before no one really cares for my art irl money I made 80 something dollars in two years and ten because my friends felt bad for me. as a artist I feel stuck mainly because I sit here and wonder what's the point if I won't be able to survive or even go to the college I wanted (I couldn't) I was really looking forward for my art to grow :(( never did 7 likes gang 4 life

I love your color choices, I know you're colorblind but the color combinations are honestly so fresh

This information is worth BILLIONS

love this vid as an artist myself, appreciate your effort and love you shared to the furry community and sheds light on the effort it can actually take to get to the higher levels <3

I’m curious why furry artists don’t have 3D grey box models that they then sketch over and clean up? Like shaven furies are pretty easy to sculpt, so ur just drawing fur over the grey box pose…. That would be a good process.

(But maybe it’s being practiced in 3D more so than 2d art).

With the posting of this video, Brian is absolutely gonna see more fanart, I haven't drawn scalies myself, but heck, might be worth a shot

I truly understand your frustration with twitter😭 I feel like everyone was saying it was easy to get started there but I saw absolutely no engagement.

You know the best part of this video? The fact that you're clearly having fun with it. This was funny as hell, and I'm pretty sure it only worked because it felt like I was laughing with you, rather than at you.

Which is good, because your first couple pictures were so bad they'd make for a great Stephen Lynch song.

I also approve of those memes no one got, because of course the guy making a joke about Stephen Lynch would.

We need more fanarts of Brian-

I was on deviant art for a while posting my drawings, never got much attention. I've created an account drawing a bit of hentay of a very specific kind, got flooded with attention, people were insanely kind to me, then got another account drawing furry but nothing sexual, just a bit of Zootopia fan fiction, got many people there as well, but the hentay thing is unbeatable as far as attention goes.
It just wasn't for me tho, I want to draw things that make me proud of my art.

Relatively new artist here and boy, that impostor syndrome bit hits home hard, cannot count the number of times someone has complimented my art and my brain is convinced I've just been straight-up lied to lol

I definitely think your progress over the two months, ESPECIALLY going from not just physical art to digital but digital on a non-screen tablet, is really awesome, and that along with the willingness to ask for help on technique/for critique from friends is indicative of a really good mindset for improving your art if you stick with it!

Thought this was Schlatt then realized it's an alternative universe where he actually admits to being a furry-

The pure relief i felt when I realized this video was made out of respect, rather than hate

This is a really lovely video. In an age where people are posting AI shit everywhere, you going through the steps to authentically become an artist and understand our struggles means so much.

Also yeah twitter sucks ass for art it's insane.

As an artist who still needs to learn how to draw furries this video is simultaneously hilarious and painfully relatable

I'm a digital artist, and for me, I can NOT use a tablet that isn't a tablet monitor. The disconnect between my hand and what I can see on screen is too much to deal with. So I know exactly what you mean there.

an easier way to transition from physical to digital art is by instead of going for full digital, drawing a sketch on paper and taking a picture of it and importing it to do digital lineart! if you end up trying to do more art-based things that may help

with how prevalent and easy it is to AI generate anything, i feel most ppl who are cheap would just do that nowadays. ive been struggling to get commissions myself and ive done them for like a decade

THE FACT THAT I CLICKED THIS EXPECTING JSCHLATT FOR SOME REASON 😭

LITERALY ME

Lovely beautiful glorious video and so happy to see the progress you made in such a short time! ^^

Man had a madame web poster in the back

Brian IMMEDIATELY cured all negativity i had in my life

Jonathan Schlatt?

Schlatt making furry yiff now? Fell of
(Ps: this video was actually good [sorry for calling you schlatt 😭])

I love Brian, his color is cool and fit him very well

I feel a whole lot better about not only using references but also about my art quality

The tapeworm that rest within my stomach