ArtySkunk🦨

I love you but I think you missed the boat.

You look great dude

I'm excited to finally be able to show you the work I did for MFF 2025's photography backdrop! It was an honor having this great opportunity once again. Thank you so much @artyskunk.bsky.social and @furfest.org ! I had so much fun working on this piece. 💜 #art #furry #furryart

Im not sure if we ever talked, but yes 2x.

Rubber isnt as much my thing, but I'm an at home person for other similar stuff.

Its a kink friendly space, dance/dealers... but part of the reality is so many people want an adult space that they are just a shoulder to shoulder mess of people. I appreciate that people of all sizes and shapes are sometime surprisingly out there and good for them... im wearing 2 layers.

Working on an idea... I thrifted this photo hanging board thing from goodwill. I may rebuild the entire thing to something more classy or just consider the cost inspiration to make my own from scratch. Maybe nice leather snaps to hang them. Rebuild out of hardwood or do a resin project.

M'lem. Surprised to catch the tongue out

I have the best daddy ever, he snagged these MFF 2025 villainous vacation table banners and made them curtains for our office 😭

They look so good!
🪡 🧵: @jinn.dad

Im joking, the simile was just funny. I think of social as the image I want to present. Sometimes I'm professional, unfortunately sometimes I'm a basketcase. I recognize no one reads my negative stuff and usually delete it later though.

Ive been in this Fandom too long. I am 100% certain someone gets something from that.

Its good for a skunk to have options. I get attracted to a skill or style an artist has and I try to get them to apply that cool thing they do great to my vision. If what they do great would fit one of those characters better. Use that one.

If you had a canvas that 10,000 or more furries could see in person
What might it be? Would it be a message? Something others could interact with? An advertisement? An expression?

Life's hard. Like even if you have life pretty good, its still hard.

Fucking bizarre, this post linked to a typo I made before I hit send

I have the option to be laid off. We don't talk about that much in animal person world?

His name is Claddagh btw, because I'm 100% Irish. The claddagh ring is that symbol of 2 hands holding a heart with a crown. The symbol means loyalty + love + friendship and that describes a golden pretty well. (My mom also loves them) 4/4

So I finally decided to try another (2026) -- I love @ed.dog 's "boofers". They're cartoony and he can draw characters that are heavyset but it feels more like their personality. I love it! Dog -> Fursuit -> Fursuit Ref -> Character Ref. Kind of the opposite of normal path 3/4

Then I got a reference made based off the suit (2020) -- and it does the proper job of calling out all the important details and colors. However, since its based off a dude in a suit, it looks like a suit reference. Artists would take this and draw me like a football linebacker. 2/4

An interesting lesson I learned - I got an artistic inspiration suit design from @latinvixen.bsky.social which I still adore (2015), it was based off my old pup Conner. Its my preferred suit, its a decade old and still in perfect shape. 1/4

They use to glue the edges. I have no idea why they showed up with all this stitching this year.

What in the world... I didn't make that one. Their prepress seems to screw up sometimes. You saw the large one in the Hyatt right?

The last one came with new benefits.

Using only images, explain how you became a furry.

A quarter century later that ask me about MFF 2000 button is interesting.

I would challenge they need to define their process that they're paying for. Sometimes shipping is just slapping a label on the original case. Sometimes it repacking for safety. My rl work has gone as far as shipping premium chocolates shipped in dry ice to be an experience.

I'd rather just buy a fursuit, myself. You do you.

I've never liked LinkedIn. One of the smartest people I have ever met reposted something he found insightful. It was written by a *college dean*, a topic of just because you have an opinion doesn't mean you matter/be authentic. The post was all clearly AI, it was a reply to an even worse AI post.

I fucking love furries <3

The worst part of having mental health issues is that you're seemingly required to have a breakdown in order for people to understand how hard you were trying to hold yourself together

Oof, right in the gut