I don't really care if you don't like dick
Added 2018-08-03 15:04:05 +0000 UTCIt's not lost on me that I draw an excess of males and she-males, and that big dicks may not be everyone's cup of tea.
Now its fine to not enjoy everything I do, but at some point I just have address the the issue directly an say that I, don't, care. Now while I do have a series of characters with vagina's, I feel that most ignore the "Bizzare Furry Art" tag-line I use.
This is a teachable moment, because you see whenever I draw what I draw, I'm not thinking in terms of "Gotta draw a guy!" or "Gotta draw a girl!" No. It's because the penis is far better symbol of sexuality than any vagina ever has been.
Increasingly I've become more pose, gesture oriented. So when picking characters to draw I lean towards male genitalia in designing my characters now, I gravitate towards given them penises because its a super reliable tool to getting that point across extra fast without drawing them in the act of having sex.
But I'm not writing this blog to explain the psychology of boners. I'm writting this blog to say that I'm I'm walking away from asking people what they want. If I start drawing things that you don't like, its not my fault for not reading your mind, its your fault for not telling me what you do want instead.
Almost monthly I roll out out a blog where I go "hey you guys, you can send me suggestions, you can reach out to me at any time" in order to show that the lines of communication are open and that as a patron you can come to me with thing's you'd want to see drawn. But no one ever does.
Outside of the posts were I ask for ideas (that only 2-3 people ever reply to) no one talks to me. No one sends me a patreon message. No one ever messages me on tumblr, going "hey I'm a patron etc." nothing. I know you're out there because I receive your pledges but the lack of communication has made this very impersonal, and really hard to care when someone says I didn't draw the things they wanted to see. Because these very same people will never say one word for me.
Perhaps its shortsightedness, or perhaps they're intimidated for some stupid reason. But I'm no longer lament people dropping their support for me, if they never made the effort to speak up in the first place. The worst thing that I can say is no, and if even that's too much for you then the problem is on you, not me.
Now I want to be diplomatic about these things, and I don't want to be mean, but you will no longer be prompted to tell me what you want anymore, you'll have to tell me on your own time, otherwise you're not getting what you want and I'm not going to care.
The phone lines are open 24/7/365 and if you can't be arsed to used them, you'll get what you get.