Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

IceCat · Coadjutor Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 81

Yep that right somebody is actualy bidding around $1200 for this sketch book of "adult male art".

http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction.pl?yiff&1078294627

Later

IceCat

Rankin · Coadjutor Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 488

Jesus fuck. I mean, yeah, he's competant, but he's still too Anime for my liking. Then again, I do have odd tastes. :twisted:

I thought I was doing well when I sold my ASB set for $150 (Cost me $25 in '01). Currently, I've got almost 60 Genus up there and it's only ~$100. :(

It feels rather cleansing to be getting rid of the stuff - that, and paying the bills is a bit of a pre-requisite.

Mr Semantics,
- R
Resident striped hazard marker.

Charisma · Coadjutor Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 158

WOW! i gotta start getting better at my anthro art!
is it just the NC-17 stuff that sells for that much though?

Rankin · Coadjutor Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 488

WOW! i gotta start getting better at my anthro art!
is it just the NC-17 stuff that sells for that much though?

Depends; how much gay sex can you draw without cocks? ;)

O-Negative · Qualificator Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 31

I can draw better than that and I wouldn't pay $1200 for my own stuff hah.

Shmorky · Coadjutor Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 182

Sketchbooks are where the real money is at. I never really spent a long time drawing each page. I just scribbled out some doodles, anything that came to mind, and then sold the book. My NC-17 books went for $200 and my G-rated books would only go up to $50.

ha ha... Still refuse to go back to porn though.

Paul · Coadjutor Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 138

Sketchbooks are where the real money is at. I never really spent a long time drawing each page. I just scribbled out some doodles, anything that came to mind, and then sold the book. My NC-17 books went for $200 and my G-rated books would only go up to $50.

ha ha... Still refuse to go back to porn though.

I'm starting to understand the lure of the furry porn...

Shmorky, how many individual drawings would there usually be in each sketchbook? And the sketchbook itself, would that just be one of those cheap, blank-paper, hardbound, made-in-China things or would it have to look fancy and expensive?

Shmorky · Coadjutor Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 182

I'm starting to understand the lure of the furry porn...

Shmorky, how many individual drawings would there usually be in each sketchbook? And the sketchbook itself, would that just be one of those cheap, blank-paper, hardbound, made-in-China things or would it have to look fancy and expensive?

I used 5 x 8 inch books. Those cost less than four bucks.

Michael Hirtes · Coadjutor Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 519

Yep that right somebody is actualy bidding around $1200 for this sketch book of "adult male art".

http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction.pl?yiff&1078294627

Later

IceCat

GM's a good artist? But $1200 plus?? Geez! For that, GM should come to your house in a French Maid outfit and give you a mindblowingly good blowjob as well!

It's filthy-rich retards like the bidder that make artists think they can make crazy mad cash for their "art" and charge insane-o prices.

Michael Hirtes · Coadjutor Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 519

I used 5 x 8 inch books.

Perfect for "one-handed holding". ;)

(Hey, that's what I used to say about Furplay. :twisted: )

Anonymous · Coadjutor Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 767

Actually, I seem to remember a commission recently by “soapuppy” or someone like that, which, despite the artist admitting that they don’t draw very good backgrounds and would rather not have one in the picture, still went for over $500.

I was rather astonished that someone would hand over $500 to an artist who by their own admission didn’t do backgrounds very well.

Zepper · Qualificator Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 22

David, check out PaintedKaffe's auctions on FurBid. She wants, as a buy it now, $60-80 for some really badly rendered drawings with no backgrounds.

Fins · Qualificator Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Posts: 25

Wtf? Part of me wonders how on this green and blue earth, somebody could get that much for a bunch of sketches (unless you're R. Crumb or something), and another part of me wants to start drawing gay male furry-boy prOn and selling it for the big bucks.... if this is the skill level that's needed, I'm more than there. Hmmm... crisp green dollars to pay the rent... oh wait, I'd have to live with myself... never mind.

DatdudeGil · Qualificator Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 36

Wtf? Part of me wonders how on this green and blue earth, somebody could get that much for a bunch of sketches (unless you're R. Crumb or something), and another part of me wants to start drawing gay male furry-boy prOn and selling it for the big bucks.... if this is the skill level that's needed, I'm more than there. Hmmm... crisp green dollars to pay the rent... oh wait, I'd have to live with myself... never mind.

Well, Shmorky has been hearkened upon more than one occasion to reminiscent of a young R. Cru-*gets bludgeoned thoroughly before he can finish the all too ovious end of this statement*

Anonymous · Coadjutor Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 767

WTF!?!?!

I just looked now and one “latinvixen” had an auction going for over $600.

Again, the caveat attached to the auction was “simple or no backgrounds”

The medium used was markers.

Now, I respect the fact that this “latinvixen” seems to have fairly reasonable skill at rendering anatomy.

But I mean, I just can’t get my head round this mentality which is prepared to pay $600 for pictures done in markers without a background.

I just don’t understand this lack of backgrounds, to me, A picture without some form of background is just a sketch or a warm up or summat.

FOR GODS SAKE! WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE BACKGROUNDS!?!?!?!

Spectacles · Recusant Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

I tell you, pornography(or similar to hentai), sell for large amounts of $$$.

Only a very few of the furry artists do this.

Spectacles · Recusant Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

p.s. every time I see furry smut/porn being sold at a high amount of price, I start to lost sanity.. especially for the same sex.

i cannot stand anthros in anyway.

DA · Coadjutor Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 320

what is it with people and paying rediculous amounts for art? I mean god for $600 you could have me drawing for you for a week.... :P and I'm one of the better artists...

Sulaco · Rasophore Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 61

Anything is possible when you're dealing with people who only think with their wangs.

DA · Coadjutor Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 320

Point...there's one artist I loath, she's arrogant and unable to do anything but the same stuff by rote, all her heads look alike, but they lap it up at $150 a time because she does porn..... :?

m_estrugo · Coadjutor Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 160

I see no problem on certain pieces of art reaching high prices in a certain market. I already confessed I'm a diecast car collector, and thus I sometimes find auctions where people pay incredible prices for a mere piece of metal.

Besides the objective price of a certain object (the price of paper and usage of pens and other consummables, or even the time you work in that piece) there's a subjective price for many things. For instance, you can get almost the same feelings you can get on a Ferrari with an Acura NSX and thus pay a fraction of what you'd have to pay for a Ferrari, but a Ferrari "is a Ferrari". Or a Porsche: I recently heard that the real cost of building a Porsche is only the 40% of its price (taxes apart); the rest is benefits. Those people buying Porsches are paying that high simply 'cause it's a Porsche.

Furry fandom is an established market, and, like in any market, certain people is willing to pay over a thousand dollars for something in particular not because their objective value but the reputation surrounding the artist in particular, etcetera.

The saddest part is that, in furry fandom, these prices are only reached when you draw erotica, or, more specifically, pornography. In my particular case, should such an interest exist for less sexual stuff, I would probably be willing to take part on it, but the terrible side-effects that drawing erotica could have to me and my (stalling) career as an artist, I prefer to leave it beside and try other venues, even if they're much less profittable.

In conclusion: I don't mind if people pay that much for furry art. I do mind, and worry, about people paying that much for pornographic furry art.

The New Meat · Coadjutor Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 327

Point...there's one artist I loath, she's arrogant and unable to do anything but the same stuff by rote, all her heads look alike, but they lap it up at $150 a time because she does porn..... :?

Who? TELL ME!

DA · Coadjutor Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 320

Who? TELL ME!

:? Her name's Quelyntr wolfcomet or some such crap..and to say I dislike her is putting it mildly..let just say I don't like being lied about which is what she did. :evil:

Jerry Collins · Coadjutor Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 162

DA: It sounds like your'e a bit jealous of her sucess,of course I could be wrong!

DA · Coadjutor Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 320

DA: It sounds like your'e a bit jealous of her sucess,of course I could be wrong!

What? her success at pissing me off? no it's more a case of she lied about me and basically told a lot of people some very nasty things about me....besides I don't see why I should be jealous seeing as I'm like ten times more skilled artwise than her though I'm still not a good as I want to be. That and she's got a ego like you wouldn't believe, even threw a tantrum over some guy because she thought he had copied her...strange I didn't know it was possible for someone to hold the copyright on dragons holding cards.... :roll:

Anonymous · Coadjutor Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 767

Point...there's one artist I loath, she's arrogant and unable to do anything but the same stuff by rote, all her heads look alike, but they lap it up at $150 a time because she does porn..... :?

Who? TELL ME!

Robbeye “Quelyntr wolfcomet” Nicholson used to have a website and a gallery on “elfwood”.

Both are gone.

I don’t know how good you have to be have a gallery on elfwood though but this was one of the only two images of hers I could find and it’s about 2 years old:

http://darokthedragon.free.fr/images/darko%20sun.jpg

The picture is too dark, But after lighteing it in PSP by 44%, It looks like a passable "digital painting" to me.

She's done some art trades, for example with "Bloodhound Omega" who described her as "talented" but that doesn't always mean much judged on the circumstances.

In the words of "drakkor":

"she had a nice "dragon-mascott" called Cyrus on her web site and that I loved. So because she wanted to sale one naughty original of Cyrus (check it here), I decided to buy it."

Picture (NOT WORKSAFE!) is at:

http://www.drakkor.com/guestart022.html

Again, The picture was drawn in 2002.

That's all I could dig up on her.

DA · Coadjutor Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 320

Those disappeared because she's paranoid about people copying her, even accused one person of copying her for having a similiar pose, like there's really a lot of poses for snarling lupine quadrapeds to take, and she yanked her website after I resurfaced, not really sure why....

Nowadays she does a few auctions on furbid..otherwise she's pretty quiet except for the stink she kicked up a few months back because I resurfaced on a board and she tried unsuccessfully to get me kicked off it....

Ole Sparky · Qualificator Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 21

I really, really, really, have to find the time to finally draw the fabuolous "Great Yiff Beast"
I have actually managed to mentally conceptualize it. Now, will someone Puh Leaze Dump a quart of Drano into my brain!
Ummm.. Sulaco, there are folks out there who do not think with their wangs.
To borrow a line from "Fiddler on the Roof", "If I were a rich man..."
You would be stunned by the concepts I would offer up for commissioning.
A thousand dreams, a thousand wonders, a thousand possiblities. A simple one, From John Denver's song "Whalebones and Crosses"
An arctic fox morph in inuit garb, harpoon in hand, head bowed before a cross under an arch of whalebone ribs that soar out of
white and pale blue ice and snow
scupled by the wind.
Above him, in the black arctic sky, the aurora
flows a spooky banner.

And that is just one of the wild ideas I nurture.
Ya' just got to wonder, don'tcha..
OTOH, when I think of Jerry Collins Latex Bamboids, look at my latest Women in Waders calender...
But we just won't go there.

Anything is possible when you're dealing with people who only think with their wangs.