This is my first time doing one of these so I apologise in advance if it seems off or I have not got the formula down.
Anyway.
I am here to warn you about not 1, not 2 but certain artists or "artists" out their.
Usually these once will remain on Twitter or X but they can be exceptions to the rules and maybe found on other art shearing sites as well.
So how dose this work.
Well if you are on Twitter or X said artist, usually a furry will message you if you follow them back.
You might be thinking to yourself.
OK
I just will not follow any furries on Twitter, X but you are wrong.
These said "artists" can message you out of the blue.
So what happens is they will say
"Hello"
Or
"Thanks for following"
Pretty basic stuff.
When interacting with them the conversation will go as normal.
THEN
After I would say 6 messages back and forth with each other they will say this.
"Would you like to see some of my art?"
Which could be as the young kids would say SUS. But they are a artist after all.
You would not think a fursuit maker asking you if you want to see some of their fursuits would be out of the ordinary. XD
So you are most likey going to say yes.
This can range from AI or stolen art if they are a qoute on qoute artist.
Or pictures of their art if they are a artist.
At this point YOU may respond with.
"Wow that is some amazing art"
Or
"Well that's art"
Something on those lines oe you may not reply at all.
The next thing that they will most likely say is.
"Do you want me to make you some?"
Or
"Do you want some amazing artwork?"
Or my favourite.
"I am artist, I do amazing work. I make amazing work for yoo!"
Now you are probably thinking to yourself now
WOW That is awsome.
This artist is gonna do some art for me for FREE!
But here is the thing.
Once you say yes they will message back with a outrageous price or give you a price when you are not expecting it.
Now this may lead you into thinking ashamed or guilty for NOT buying their art.
Now I am here to tell you NOT to interact if a artist says they can do art without mentioning the price.
I know times are tough.
And AI's taking some of artists clients is even tougher.
But if a artist wants to reach out to you they would say something on the lines of.
"Hello I am [artist name here]
I do commissions if your interested. My commission info is on [website here] or [in bio] or [tells you rough pricing].
If you don't want to commission me that is fine. Sorry if I interrupted you.
Have a nice day."
Most of us artists WILL not come to you asking for commissions.
(Unless we are a artist and you are a artist and we want to buy a commission off you.)
The only time we will come to you is if we are despite and leave the friendly message eg at top.
Or
We are asking for a trade or Requests.
We WILL NEVER Demand or guilt trip you to hand over your money.
AND IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS THAT IS DOING GUILT TRIP TATICS ON PEOPLE I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU!
Shame on you, Shame.
Stop giving us artists a bad rep!
If you feel that it is the only way to make money by guilt tripping people I want you to take a good long look at yourself in the mirror and consider leaving or retirering been a artist!
Moving away from the dumpster fire down as Twitter or X and going onto art shearing websites like Inkbunny, FA and DA.
You may get a message from a artist or "artist" that is not Can I RP with you for a change lmao.
So they might say hello or they may just jump into it. Remeber this is not Twitter/X territory here this is the wild west of art shearing sites and Inkbunny and Furaffinity and DeviantArt here.
As before if they ask to show you their artwork simply decline or ignore or block.
If they are not saying at first hand they are a artist that dose commissions and give you the rough pricing or give you the link to their price list. Then you best not risk it.
And since it is a art shearing website you should be able to click on their username and explore their work of art on their page.
(If they have any.)
And now time for my Story
I had a artist or artist in quotations message me on DA and for anonymity reason we will call her Kate.
So Kate messaged me saying
"Btw you have such a cool stuff:3, Can we connect on discord if you don't mind ? My discord id is [REDACTED]"
I slightly exited that I may for the first time get a commission from someone other than my grandma. (That's a story for another day.)
Said in reply
"Just out of intrest how old are you?"
I naturally ask this to see if I am working with SFW or NSFW. If Kate was under aged it would have been strictly SFW.
Kate replied with
"I'm 21, you ?"
And naturally I told her my age.
I agreed to talk to Kate over on Discord because I thought at the time that she would be willing to commission me for a art piece.
Besides I am sorry DA (DeviantArt) but your chat
is Smit!
So me and Kate chatted on Discord.
At first I thought she wanted a commission off me but it turns out that she just wanted to front her commissions.
I was told to ignore her by my partner.
Then she came back.
She did message again but she was interested in my work and asked about my fursonas.
I showed her links to Angello which is a blue fox for those of you living under a rock
jkjk.
Crystal fire which is my dragon fursona. Which I am guessing half of you probably know already and finally Alice. A unknown species.
She defently took a liking to Alice.
Then one night my partner was been my partner and I think they woke me up saying that Kate wanted to commission me.
It was after I replied good thank you. Kate was just slow on her reply.
Kate then said.
"Glad to hear that :3 Actually was thinking about any amazing art of your own? Since my slots are opened I thought why not ask you about commissioning some artwork from you?"
My partner played "Ghostbusters we got one" Which I requested if I ever got a paid for commission.
We all thought this could be it.
I COULD GET MONEY!
...
I did not realise how manipulative Kate was.
"That would be great. Um what would you like?" I replied going into full fox nerd mode.
She replied with this.
"I was thinking to draw a full body art of "ALICE" ,So do you have any idea in your mind like poses or expression or should 1 go with my own creativity ?"
Kate did not want to commission me she just wanted to draw Alice for a price.
I felt like I was used
twice
with chips.
The first time yes. I wad a little over confident and thought this could be it.
The second time was Kate using my commissions to get my attantion to guilt trip me on giving her money.
She used confusion.
She lifted my spirits up only to shater them into millions of pices right infrount of me.
Seeing AI do it's thing with artwork pushes me more and more to artists but how can I even trust artists when they do these manipulative tatics on me.
2024 is supposed to be a year where I come out of my shell and buy from other artists that is not the well known one that I know.
Said artists probably do realise that I want to get art from them because nothing compares to the human touch and AI has a tendency to do it without double checking on is this right for you?
Anyway that is it.
Just be careful out there.
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