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NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists)

@namycat.bsky.social

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He-Him / 34 / TabbyLion / Certified shorty / English & Español / Artist / Furry / Tabletop gamer / D&D Nerd. Minors, Pedos and lgbt+phobes do not interact. If you only wanna watch my art posts... My art feed is: https://tinyurl.com/namyarts

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NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · Oct 22

Hello world. Just to summarize:
-Tabby lion (half lion, half tabby cat)
-S̵h̵o̵r̵t̵i̵e̵. 1,3 mts tall (almost 4.25 ft)
-30 kg (around 65 lbs) of pure fluffiness
-Responsable adult (between 25 and 30)
-Introvert, playfull, loves games (specially tabletop)

Refsheet and design by Me
Namyfeed #furry #furryart

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NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 1m

Big felines of the Panthera family.
Even when we're different you can tell the similarities.
So majestic!

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 35m

Share your couples art ❤️ ❤️

Me and @jennathedragon.bsky.social

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 4h

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this wonderful SHOE STRUCTURE break down, by the talented @ayshiun! Learning to visualise these forms FIRST will help you tackle a wide range of SHOE TYPES and FEET ANGLES! #gamdev #ANIME #manga #conceptart #illustration #Drawing #art #shoes

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 2h

Another morning, not feeling inspired at all. Say what you want but generative AI “art” really devalued our work culturally, it simply feel more depressing overall to work.

I fed the birbs, at least the lil guys were happy to get seeds.

I will drink my coffee and draw for my commission.

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Jenna The Dragon (Comms Open/DM) @jennathedragon.bsky.social · 1h

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Jenna The Dragon (Comms Open/DM) @jennathedragon.bsky.social · 2h

Something I've been holding off from confessing, is that I had to mainly give up my art as a ful time career.

It came to be my turn sooner than I expected. I had the hope of being able to make a living from my art.

The dream bubble burst.

Godspeed to y'all, keep on chasing your dreams

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NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

I'm with you, Jenn. Still your number one fan and apprentice. I know you deserves way way more than what life has given you, and hope one times it comes. Because your voice and your art matters and is fucking awesome. For now i can only say: we'll find our way through this. You're not alone. ❤️

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

But this is not a defeat on us, nor it has to be a good bye. This is just a mere strategical decision. Maybe we can try going full time again when the situation changes for the better, or maybe we could find that doing it in the side had freed ourselves from the whole mess this is.

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

I love your work and i'm sure there are lots of people that do too. It was always hard, but right now is even harder, with AI, with the world economy, with the globalized competitions, with the attention span of current audiences, and on and on.
It feels like shit, because we can't fight it all...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

...No more pleasing the algorithm, No more taking on commission of things that are not our cup of tea, No more stress coming from client searching or dealing with difficult people, no more sanitizing our art voices, no more putting our art value under the monetary umbrella of the everchanging market

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

When that happens is intelligent to aim to a different job, in order to survive. Art can become a side thing, and that's okey. Is not what we initially aimed at, but it has their advantages too. By being outside of "the game" we can stop trying to please their blurry rules...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

Sometimes we have the right seeds and skills to make them grow strong, but is the soil the one that's not cooperating, or the weather, or there is a plague of bugs messing everything that spurts... or all of them at the same time.

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

It's okey to step down from aiming at a fulltime art career if it isn't working right now. Is not a failure on yourself nor your art..., because monetary art success doesn't depends solely on ourselves (no matter what some people may think), because we don't have full control on it.

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

But even with all that. Even when's hard and unfair. Even when nothing makes sense. Your art is valuable and your voice deserves to be out there.
You enjoy creating and people enjoy your creations, and wants them existing out there. Even if they don't speak about it in comments or click "like"...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

I've heard artists that makes a living of this, or made a living of this, tell their success stories and a lot of their advices can't be really applied in today's context, or are incompatible with our personal context. Is... surreal.

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

...and that's coexisting, somehow, with people that did everything the right way and is in the lowest.
I guess this is a lot like sports and acting, is not just who you are and what you can do, but also (and this is a BIG also) who saw you and when. Being in the right moment, in the right place...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

We really REALLY want to find reasoning behind the failure and success, so it can makes sense and we can feel in control. But the truth is, there is none. There are people up there that made all and every mistake, even the worst ones, and is making it big...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

And some people answers with "oh, you tried inserting yourself in X to get traction/money, and it didn't worked because it was not sincere. You didn't were X and the other people from the X fandom/market noticed"... yeah, like if there wasn't countless of genuine X artists that tried and failed...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

Any artist out there that "didn't make it" or that's "barely holding" could tell stories about all the things they tried. like "I tried drawing anime when it was popular, i tried doing trends and memes, i tried finding a niche, i tried being different, i tried being the same... it didn't worked"...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

A lot of us crave for genuine connection, not just pleasing an algorithm. AND even if we don't, or are okey with sacrificing our voices in pursue of traction with the goal of one time "earn the right" to finally show our inner world to an audience that's interested on watching... no advice helps...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

... because we want to share with the world. Art is expression and not feeling seen makes us feel like our expressions don't matter. And sometimes people tells you "maybe you should say/show other things to get traction", but doing it would be "expressing things that are not yours truly"...

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

As a career. This is shit. that's the truth.
The only reason we keep going on is because we enjoy doing art. We did art before the money and attention was part of the equation and will continue even if there is no money or attention involved.
But yeah, it hurts still...

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NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

It is disheartening.
A lot of us are not even fulltime artists and a lot of fulltimers are barely surviving. There are lots of pros working for the big industry that are living paycheck to paycheck. And the recent layoffs shown us all how unstable the whole thing is.

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NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

There is a BIG luck factor and numbers on social media doesn't really reflect anything. You could have 100 followers and not a single like, 1000 followers and not a single comment, 10000 followers and not a single client. There's people who have become viral one week and completely obscured the next

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NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists) @namycat.bsky.social · 55m

The world is in shambles and art is one of the hardest careers there is. I sometimes got asked for advice and sadly there is none. Hard work is not the answer, an unique style isn't either, hours of upon hours on social media posting can only help "so little" on the matter..

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