I like this a lot

And yes, someone who hates the countless Andy Worhol imitations.

AAARG *pulls out hair*

This is awesome, and I can't wait for the rest of the pages XD

*ehem* for this comment, I must break out in song...
"Did you ever know that you're my heeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrooooooooooo"

etc etc...

seriously. Stick it to the furry haters. And you might as well stick it to the man while you're at it too, even though he is so covered in sticky right now that you could use him as a lint roller.

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Awesome piece, especially the sentiments expressed.

The reason furry art doesn't get respect is the same reason cartoons in general don't get respect. Simplifying things at all, in a style that other people have drawn in in the past, is incredibly cliche...I am a total victim of this 'cliche' myself, since my people and monsters are never photorealistic.

Photrealistic furry art, on the other hand, gets its lack of respect because art critics don't like it when figures- humans or animals- don't look mostly like one thing or another; mix two animals together, or an animal and a human, and suddenly it falls into the realm of 'fantasy'-

which all fantasy art, in general, gets no respect. At all.

Neither do watercolors you see on the doctor's wall. Those don't get any respect by art critics or art schools.

Basically, the only way to get respect is to make things that look like whatever artists are incredibly trendy now (just open any high arts magazine- 'Juxtapoz', etc, there are plenty at the book store next to Tommy's, and copy and paste the styles there) or to make things that look like they were made by a CLASSIC, RENOWNED artist like Michaelangelo (fuck I automatically am bowled away if somebody can actually paint like that nowadays).

Because of how common art is now- it's online, it's printed on t-shirts, it's on TV, it's printed on posters- it's really hard to make anyone give any sort of shit about your work- whether you're a photorealistic fur artist, a cartoonist, or even a photorealistic portrait artist. The only way to be respected is to follow trends, which are hard to predict and very temporary.

Very few people get respect from art critics. Even respected artists are constantly criticized by people who happen to hate their stuff.

The word 'cliche' is such a horrible, catch-all, uncreative way to dismiss people...which makes it very popular among critics, of course.

At the very least I'd reccomend trying to learn about the contemporary art scene, just to see what the fuckers on top want, just so you can explain to them later why you don't care about what they desire...

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I really like this. Especially the Andy Warhol panel - I can't stand Warhol anyway, much less Warhol knockoffs LOL

But really, nicely done. Going to see if you've got more pages - and if you don't, why not? Make them!

Yeah, Andy Warhol irritates the hell out of me. XD

I don't have any more pages yet - during the summer, work on my Raven fursuit, working a job, and life and laziness in general got in the way. I have them all planned out, though. Perhaps I shall resurrect them later on. :3 Also, I haven't uploaded anything in general to DA in foreverrr, oops. I tend to forget about this site a lot. n_n I shall fix that a bit now, methinks.

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Gorgeous! I love it. It puts it in a different light and makes me not so ashamed of being a "furry".
Not to mention, lovely anatomy on the whole thing. Very well put together. The only thing I might say by way of suggestion is that the panels were a bit hard to follow, and so it was difficult to see the sequencing.

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Thank you. Yeah, never be ashamed of being who you are or doing what you're interested in. Some folks just have no imagination or sense of humor.

I'm not a comic artist by nature (this is the second comic I'd ever drawn in my life), so I'm curious as to what you said about the paneling - what do you think could be done to improve how it reads? Which transitions in particular were hard to follow? Thanks for the feedback, I love constructive crits. <3

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