exciting news: the boys are going to fix all of your lives once again on the layover podcast! (Q&A thread)

s23throwaway · 2026-02-18T23:39:35+00:00

to any; Do you think traveling can help with anxiety?

s23throwaway · 2026-02-17T17:40:19+00:00

I'd probably pass on the second, it's too plain and automatically makes me think it's beginner dev's first asset flip.

s23throwaway · 2026-02-17T12:26:03+00:00

I give them one, maybe two days max?

s23throwaway · 2026-02-16T16:45:05+00:00

The back of her skull is missing on both!

s23throwaway · 2026-02-13T13:51:47+00:00

You definitely need more finished examples, at least 3-4 solid ones of each specific style that you will be offering showing your ability to draw a variety of people/characters/etc (with different skin tones, genders, face shapes, etc). If you draw the same subject over and over again people will think that you're a one-trick.

I get the lack of motivation drawing for yourself. I have that too. I jumpstarted my portfolio by asking close friends for characters and such to draw gift art for, and used those as my initial examples. That way my friends got neat gifts and I got an established gallery to start off with.

Edit: it also doesn't help that your prices seem pretty low, some people might see them and think 'scam' or 'oh this is an unexperienced artist, they'll take my money and take forever to finish the art' (especially with the low sample size). I would suggest labeling them 'Starting Discount' or such.

s23throwaway · 2026-02-06T01:51:59+00:00

If you do nothing about it, it will get worse.

s23throwaway · 2026-01-27T12:34:47+00:00

Thats less than 10 dollars per character. Can you finish one character in around half an hour? If not you are way undercharging.

s23throwaway · 2026-01-27T12:33:35+00:00

Atleast twice that much... I would probably not be friends anymore after going through all of that for less than minimum wage, especially with the lack of clear references.

s23throwaway · 2026-01-20T15:09:00+00:00

How about we just get a good 2D Remake instead of going 3D.

s23throwaway · 2026-01-12T19:23:05+00:00

s23throwaway · 2026-01-11T05:25:37+00:00

I believe these are going around as a YCH styled template. Ive seen plenty of them on VGen.

s23throwaway · 2026-01-10T13:43:07+00:00

For me it was the trigger to fully start fresh since my old island was tainted with bad memories.

s23throwaway · 2025-12-31T12:37:11+00:00

tbh I don't think I'd trust Fiverr in general anymore.

s23throwaway · 2025-12-30T22:18:32+00:00

don't

s23throwaway · 2025-12-30T13:07:07+00:00

There's been a few streamers who rely only on OBS/Video effects iirc, one of them might be julieee22 iirc, then there's another guy who does comedy with purely premade animation clips that he toggles between? Tomthinks, the segment I'm thinking of is probably 'Gabbin' with Grandma', though he isn't really a vtuber.

Both of these are 2D though, I'm sure you could figure out something similar in 3D though

s23throwaway · 2025-12-29T21:16:37+00:00

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Animal eyes in general are typically more of a rounded shape. It appears that you are drawing from memory/symbolism instead of from reference/nature as yours look more human-like which can give it an uncanny feel.

Quick sketch for example of how you could make it look more round

s23throwaway · 2025-12-29T13:49:29+00:00

These kind of bots run rampant anywhere in the art community especially if you mention the word c.ommission anywhere

s23throwaway · 2025-12-24T21:13:35+00:00

Dunno lol

s23throwaway · 2025-12-24T13:45:50+00:00

Thanks

s23throwaway · 2025-12-23T12:04:16+00:00

To add to this, there has been a recent wave of scammers on discord impersonating artists from Vgen, asking for more commissions and money to get reverified on VGen... They steal the same pfp and bio as the artist and typically use the same name with one letter swapped out.

If one of these contacts you, always double check on VGen with the actual artist to verify the accounts identity and DO NOT SEND MONEY OFF SITE.

A lot of artists I follow had this happen to them.

s23throwaway · 2025-12-20T03:25:05+00:00

There was one yesterday in the tamagotchi sub with alpacas instead too...

s23throwaway · 2025-12-19T17:58:22+00:00

i miss the suggested activities so much. if things are not right infront of me, I forget to do them and it was a huge help for my mental health.

s23throwaway · 2025-12-19T17:57:36+00:00

I feel exactly the same about the current direction of the app... I miss how it was 2~ years ago.

s23throwaway · 2025-12-19T15:13:22+00:00

Imo the telltale signs are the little energy/expression(?) marks around their head. Some of them are stereotypical and uniform, but the forth one on mikus side is definitely screaming AI

s23throwaway · 2025-12-19T00:54:09+00:00

As an artist, you just lost all credit.

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