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8 steps of cool furre artists

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8 steps to being a cool Furre artist, on Deviant Art

Prelude:
If one was to follow these steps, they might find themselves in furry popularity. All that you will read are merely steps of suggestions. Here is how to set up to begin your quest for popularity and recognition. You will need a deviant name. It could be weird, like Azmitethite, or as normal as SamtheRat. merely a suggestion. Next you will need to follow the eight steps below to complete your journey.

STEP ONE:
        Design a cool fursona. For example, pick an odd animal, or combine a few. Remember when combining, add horns, hooves, scales, wings, tattoos or scars. This adds depth. Don't worry if it is drawn terribly. You don't need talent yet.

STEP TWO:
        Write in your journal daily. Always be perky or friendly in it. Yet make your art morbid. This will cause dynamic in your personality.

STEP THREE:
        Submit lots of art. Sketches, feral, porn, or whatever you draw. Add blood, or struggles to inspire deep meaning in it. Males should be angsty and womanly and the woman need to be busty and whorish.

STEP FOUR:
        Gift Art! Pay careful attention to furre artists' pages. Find a circle of friends. Pick one, draw their character. It could be with our without your own. Soon that artist and possibly its friends will gift you. If anything, you will get recognition.

STEP FIVE:
        Make plenty of comments and faves. Do it amongst that circle, or randomly of other furries. Favourite gift art of your characters. Curious people will find you this way.

STEP SIX:
        Make as many friends as possible. Whether they are good or bad artists. This shows you don't care about their art, but the person they are. Outsiders will want to be your friend too.

STEP SEVEN:
        Host a contest when you get enough friends. You could do the "When I hit 5,000 pageviews, screenshot it and you get free art" kind or the "Draw my character and you get this prize" kind. The first is the cheapest and bring you page views. Page views equal popularity.

STEP EIGHT:
        Feign a dramatic event. Journal it. Then don't come onto DA due to this problem, for at least 2 weeks.


Now when you return to DA, from your event. There will be gift art waiting for you. Now this is popularity.
I was greatly inspired by *tangledweb around a year ago. When he wrote the guide to deviant popularity.
Since then, I have opened my eyes, watching a particular community I belong to. Anthro/Furry.
I am not trying to piss anyone off, but take this humor in stride.

I hope you enjoy :heart:
© 2006 - 2024 skookum
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melaleuca's avatar
Step eight made me laugh! Although nothing really happened when I did that. I left for several months at one point and I don't think anybody noticed, lol. Then again I left because my scanner broke...

Here are the rules I have learned:

All poopulaar furry artists MUST have a name like "asphyxyationwhore", "xtacyaddict" or "xcaughtxinxaxdownwardxspiral" or something lame with a lot of x's and other unused letters in it.
I'd laugh if somebody had that name already.

You MUST have a gay, bisexual or cross-dressing character with a deep past and lots of scars on their arms from many-a-tempted suicides. If not then your character must be obsessed with murder and self mutilation. All characters MUST have a drug problem.

Most importantly, you have to suck in at least three or four other artists on DA to draw exactly like you, have matching icons AND talk about your good times on other art/websites. Make it seem like they're missing something they should know about you so that you can "reach" with them and get in on the bandwagon.

And if you don't do this then you are a NOBODY on DA as far as the furry communion is concerned.

We can be above it...