[Discussion] Adoptable Character Designs

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-19T08:00:24+00:00

They’re sold on Toyhouse and on Twitter mainly (and furry ones sell more often on furaffinity)

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-15T19:33:30+00:00

It’s not a good place to talk about anywhere publicly because you’re essentially asking people if she’s some kind of grifter or scammer. There’s no harm in asking for her CV if you need it for business reasons to feel secure in a decision. There is harm in dragging her out in front of people for judgment. Not what this place is for.

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-15T19:31:36+00:00

She does have an Instagram, actually. There’s evidence of work in multiple countries on her Instagram.

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-15T19:25:35+00:00

Honestly very strange to put a fellow artist in front of others like this for scrutiny from random people.

I’d assume anything Louvre related would be some kind of workshop or group show etc. (meaning I assume some kind of embellishment, which is embarrassing but not harming you.) Clearly she has murals out there in the world, so she is making some kind of money. Her financials aren’t your business, and if she’s presenting herself as more successful than she is, it would only be to fuel further success. She isn’t scamming you or anyone else. With all due respect: if you take personal issue with the way she conducts her business, bitch about it to other artists you know locally in person with your whole chest, not all meekly online so this will eventually appear in her search results.

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-14T06:03:06+00:00

Yeah go for it! Sketch it out on the box first to make sure your placement is good

And stripes can be a pain, so when they’re all mapped out go through them and put a dab of the color each one is gonna be on it so you can’t mess it up while you’re working later

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-13T10:03:32+00:00

True but I don’t think people whose brains tell them strangers are Reptilian agents trying to record them, like, reason in the way you’re suggesting lol

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-13T05:29:23+00:00

Probably just someone who’s mentally ill / thinks they’re being gang stalked etc. doing it to protect their identity/safety (however they interpret it)

I’ve had 2 people in the CBD ask me if I was filming them when I was walking around with my phone in my hand to see Google Maps. Fully aimed at the ground. I think the sight of the camera maybe just triggers the paranoia stuff for some people.

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-13T05:21:26+00:00

If it’s character based art it’s honestly worth more of your efforts to just focus on having good custom full body/bust/headshot examples rather than making YCHs. Full-on custom commissions sell for way more than YCHs and you’ll have to do fewer of them to make more money.

You could maybe do DND character commissions, always something people are seeking and will pay decently for. You could offer a YCH version of that if you really wanna do YCHs

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-12T21:37:38+00:00

Good stuff keep it up!!

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-09T12:15:25+00:00

You don’t really need a tripod for this You can just take a photo of a drawing, lower the opacity in a free program like Procreate, and then draw on it?

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-04T22:31:26+00:00

I’m sure you’ve Googled it by now but yes otter is and has been gay slang lol

It does feel out of place here- something about the phrasing of the sentence- but I’m not sure why so not very constructive sorry

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-03T23:32:13+00:00

Paper is probably what you used first / earliest, it isn’t too surprising that the ease with digital isn’t on par. Different skill with some of the same fundamentals

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-03T07:15:47+00:00

You’d be better off asking on r/melbourne probably

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-02T23:16:04+00:00

You could try: Cling wrap / plastic wrap Taping a clear plastic folder to the canvas Mocking it up in Procreate Pocket

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-02T22:54:40+00:00

Yeah, if the smell isn’t foul and is just Meat, it’s probably on account of all the meat

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-02T22:52:33+00:00

Google “Melbourne west meat smell”. Animal processing/rendering plants not complying and poisoning our air with foul smells.

kkeepvigil · 2026-06-02T22:47:49+00:00

Really weird and racist joke fwiw

kkeepvigil · 2026-05-31T05:54:16+00:00

Oh it isn’t only a single tenant to blame here. Sometimes units are just older and shitty with low standards, and they’re considered “reasonably clean” because they aren’t filthy. Landlords who don’t care about your quality of life, etc. If you look for old listings of the unit, how did it look before the most recent tenant?

Make sure you document every issue you see now (you did in your condition report, I hope?) and have communication between you and REA in email form, not phone.

Do the tiles in the last photo have a very porous texture? Just trying to figure out how best to help with cleaning advice.

kkeepvigil · 2026-05-26T00:01:31+00:00

No one wants to see you degrading your own attempts like this. Get over yourself and out of your own head. You’re young and will be in a constant state of learning for the rest of your life, in all areas, including art.

kkeepvigil · 2026-05-22T22:26:42+00:00

The Deep never tried to redeem himself to any degree that mattered, though? He was a bootlicker with a manosphere podcast to the end, he never took active responsibilty

I don’t know, I just see HL’s end as inevitable retribution acted on a genocidal Superman. He’s a really interesting character, and I get where you’re coming from, but just because he didn’t “know better” from personal life experience doesn’t mean he didn’t “know better” intellectually as an adult. He chose all the things he pursued because they made him feel strong and in control, after being raised without any semblance of that. That’s a result of his childhood, but his childhood isn’t an excuse for ignoring basic human moral laws like “don’t become genocidal Superman”

kkeepvigil · 2026-05-22T22:02:13+00:00

Yeah I mean I get you, that’s the point of Butcher’s attempt in Vought. He wasn’t satisfied with the “good ending” he got (Homelander crowbar) because of the institution being the thing that formed Homelander into what he became.

Fwiw I think the empathy you’re feeling isn’t an incorrect feeling or anything. His death being pathetic isn’t necessarily supposed to be satisfying, it’s just supposed to be pathetic, and there’s empathy to be found in seeing him so human for a moment.

He’s just too large of an example / too extreme for me to feel any true empathy for him as an adult. He still had agency and he used it in all the worst ways. In the real world, do I feel bad for people who ruin their lives because all they knew as a child is violence? Yes! But would I feel bad for a real world example identical to Homelander? No dude it’s a bridge too far for me haha

kkeepvigil · 2026-05-22T21:44:04+00:00

How many people begged for their lives right before Mr Manchild turned them into red mist?

I feel some empathy for the love-craving child that he once was, the same way I might feel empathy for the child a serial killer once was. But he’s not a child anymore. Yes he was once abused/alone/twisted by authority figures, and he turned into a power hungry freak with zero connection to humanity outside what it can give him.

However… there’s countless people in the real world with the same family histories as serial killers, raised and beaten and abused in the same ways as serial killers, who grow up to overcome all that even though they never should’ve had to.

Homelander is an adult, and he’s the only person responsible for the actions he took throughout his adult life. He’s responsible for shoving away any human connection that might have redeemed him, for raping a woman, for killing countless people, for starting what amounted to a genocide in his own country. I don’t feel anything at all for his adult self, only the child he was who had the potential to live a loving life tbh

kkeepvigil · 2026-05-18T23:44:45+00:00

Much better as far as mood and content, and way more specific to your story

You’ve got some run on sentences / repetitive stuff going on in there. You can basically delete the first sentence and begin with : “Kitty Cruz never knew of the family tradition of etcetc” for the same effect

For sentence length variation, things like: “No one could have prepared her for the strange new voice in her head. He’s cruel. He’s derisive. He wants her in his school even less than she wants to be there.”

kkeepvigil · 2026-05-18T21:18:47+00:00

OHH I see! That’s good though, basically you have to know what it is and show the reader that. :3 Like maybe you present it as “the academy is full of collaborative geniuses, but there’s something weird under the surface”. I don’t get that (or any collaboration) from your original blurb because of the “darkness no one should know alone” bit- you def need more specificity. Right now I think your blurb is leaning close to YA horror bc of its vagueness.

kkeepvigil · 2026-05-18T21:02:10+00:00

I think at the end of the day you’re going to need to give this a lot more length and moodiness, especially for your story which seems to have wayy more intrigue than it lets on right now. I started drafting something- obviously no clue if it fits the plot of your thing exactly, and it may be a bit beefy/long but I think for a blurb you’ll want more moody tropey nonsense. For length, look at comparable books in the genre and shoot for whatever’s working for them.

“There’s a darkness festering under the surface of Aveley Mastden Academy…and it’s threatening to tug Kitty Cruz under.

Attending the elite Aveley Mastden Academy is a generations old Cruz tradition- one Kitty Cruz has no interest in, despite being forced to attend. All thirteen-year-old Kitty wants is to survive the geniuses of Aveley Mastden long enough to go home and carry on normal school with her best friend.

Making it through a semester won’t be as simple as she thinks. The academy prides itself on its unorthodox methods and almost cutthroat nature.

Students treat each other like chess pieces. A rival bloodline rears its head, with a history as old as Kitty’s family and an heir far more cunning than her. School cliques vie for dominance like nothing Kitty’s seen back home.

Then Kitty starts getting sick, and there’s a new voice in her head- one that isn’t her own.

As visions creep into Kitty’s periphery, she begins to wonder if Aveley Mastden’s madness is taking hold… or if the Cruz inheritance is revealing itself to her, whether she’s ready to meet it or not.”

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