The news post: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9761295

Interesting update this time around. FA is now independently owned by Dragoneer again. That's an interesting one because im curious how fast the site will progress now. It did quite a lot of updating and cut down heavily on downtime while under IMVU, so im curious to see if the site will be able to support itself just as much now that its back to this.

I'm excited to see "Name Changing" is listed as a future feature. I know a couple of you folks who have usernames that you thought you could change before signing up and met with the unfortunate truth that it wasn't an available feature. Think real hard about how you'd want to call yourself in the future from now on. It doesn't give specifics as to how many times you can change or what the process is so think carefully about Who you Want to be Called.

I'm also excited to that there is a Trending section listed for the future. With a site that's been up for so long, the "most popular" section is extremely stagnent. The same art has been up there since I joined this site, and a "recently popular" page would help promote a lot more artists.

Future Video Upload Support is listed. I am very curious to see what this entails. If I can upload my animations i post to youttube, I'll be very very happy. I'll definitally do more of them. It's always baffled me as to why they didn't have the ability to upload videos before when they allowed flash animations. not everyon had created works in a flash format so i could never upload to FA.

Improvements to writing is also a VERY good thing to see listed in the near future. Animation might have been borked, but Writing was absolutely horrendously set up. If you uploaded the way it was "meant" to, it was ugly as all hell displayed. The writer's category needs an update so bad. I always uploaded a small art file and copy/pasted the whole thing in the descrion intead because it looked nicer and could be displayed upfront.

Improvements to the block setting. i HOPE that means our profiles will not be visually available to blocked people. It's the most disturbing thing to have someone stalk your account and still have access even if blocked. I hope that those will be the improvements.

NOW, Onto the Logo change. I'll be frank, I hate it. Every furry art site is a Pawprint now and I hate it. Their last two Logos, the fox tail and the Fender Face, were much more appealing. I think the Fox tail was a really great one since it had FA in the logo and was visible even when small. I always ALWAYS hated that their little tab icon was a paw since every other furry site had a paw. It's not unique and doesn't actually say FA on it. Also, they should change their tab icon to their logo because that was the source for most confusion. most sites use their logo in the tab icon, but FA never did. Now technically there is some consistency, but the Logos don't sneakily have FA written on them to make it obvious the logo is for FurAffinity.

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Video About how to Comic Commission a Uluri: https://youtu.be/Y8BB3xXXuJA

FILL THIS FORM OUT TO ORDER: https://ulurifox.wixsite.com/uluri/comic-commissions

Rates: $30/hour

Format's Available: Page and Strip

Finishes Available: B/W, Flat Color, and Full color

Important info

- No 18+ or heavy fetish themes

- Must have visual references

- Must have a Story or Script prepared

- Not First come First served

- Paypal Invoice

- Discussion and Commission files will be sent via Email

Themes of interest

Pokemon, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, shitpost stupidity, cute, Pet Stories, Wilderness environments, animals, monsters, and a bunch more. The no no's are more important.

Themes that are No no's

18+, super fetishy, CITY environments (i don't know how to draw), Drama Romance Novel trash where eventually MC gets a random second love interest for no reason because a new guy transfered into school even though the main love interest and MC have already confessed to eachother like A DAY AGO confict BS just to keep the story going.

What is the commission process is like?

When I accept your comic commission, the process of completion will look like this: I will fully Sketch/WIP the entirety of the story before any lining or coloring happens for individual pages. As Pages are sketched, I will send you them for approval or edits for how the story is progressing visually. Once The series is sketched out I can start on the Finalization process of Lining and Coloring (if necessary) while releasing the pages one at a time as they are completed. The finished files will be sent to you via email as they are completed.

As for Payment, I will be working at $30 per hour as per my usual commission rates. I will be using Paypal invoices. You pick the amount of time you would like me to be hired for in hour or half hour intervals, and I will complete as much as I can during that timeframe. repeat this until the series is completed. If you have a multi-page series I would like to suggest a minimum of 2 hours ($60) to start with to get some of the pages sketched and then work from there.

Get your butt out here! i haven't seen you for a whole week! I need your solar power! Give me your rays of light! Stop hiding behind those clouds and get your shiny ass out here because I'm missing my Solar-MP buff so I can draw for more than 10 minutes.

~ ~ someone who draws only in the sunlight

I've been thinking I would like to work on some comic commissions soon. i'm currently revamping my Comic Commission Page as I post this up because I have a more comfortable understanding of what I want to offer and what I don't. So, now that I have mentioned it, I should give out some imprortant information about ordering a comic Comission from me.

1. They aren't open yet... <u<; Thought I might need to write this. Don't send a request yet
2. Comic Commissions are NOT first come first served. When I open, I will be looking through all commission requests and choosing a story I would want to work on. I want to work on a story I have a lot of interest in.
3. I need a defined story and or script to work on a comic. I WILL NOT take on "Artistic freedom" or "Your choice" commissions. I'm not a writer, and I do not to intend to write your story for you. You need to have one already written out.
4. NO 18+ nor heavy fetish series. I do not intend to draw horny comics.

What is the commission process is like?
When I accept your comic commission, the process of completion will look like this: I will fully Sketch/WIP the entirety of the story before any lining or coloring happens for individual pages. As Pages are sketched, I will send you them for approval or edits for how the story is progressing visually. Once The series is sketched out I can start on the Finalization process of Lining and Coloring (if nesessary) while releasing the pages one at a time as they are completed.

As for Payment, I will be working at $30 per hour as per my usual commission rates. I will be using Paypal invoices. You pick the amount of time you would like me to be hired for in hour or half hour intervals, and I will complete as much as I can during that timeframe. repeat this until the series is completed. If you have a multi-page series I would like to suggest a minimum of 2 hours ($60) to start with to get some of the pages sketched and then work from there.

Stories/themes Uluri has Interest in?
Pokemon, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, shitpost stupidity, cute, Pets Stories, Wilderness environments, animals, monsters, ??? this is more open ended ???

Stories/Themes Uluri doesn't like?
18+, super fetishy, CITY environments (i don't know how to draw), Drama Romance Novel trash where eventually MC gets a random second love interest because a new guy transfered into school even though the main love interest and MC have already confessed to eachother confict BS just to keep the story going plzdontiwontacceptthis.

We are going into the new year, which means it is time for me to set out a general plan for what I want to do. I'll be going over all sorts of what I plan today. BUT FIRST, I shall display my Art Recap for this Year. Do scroll down below for even more news beyond the video.

https://youtu.be/J00Kgq6egtU

First up, Websites.
I have been growing my other art sites this past year quite a bit. You can find an extended list here, but here are my Main art sites that I am highly Active on.

Active: Newgrounds | DeviantArt | FurAffinity | Pixiv | Weasyl | Picarto | Inkbunny | Youtube
Semi Active: Furry Amino | Art Amino | PillowFort

Now, Newgrounds and Pixiv are relatively newer for me, but both have been growing at a very steady pace. I am very pleased with these two's progress. Newgrounds is a pretty nice place, but I only post my SFW and Gore there because there are no profile filters for nsfw. Only downside to newgrounds. As for twitter, FUcK TwiTer, it sucks. I hate twitter. im only sharing it because folks are refusing to use anything else but twitter. Their updates are shit, I never see things from people i follow, never know when someone's coms are open, and twitter's bullshit community. I have one, but Im not sharing it because i hate it. Also, if any of you would like to make a Weasyl account, and need someone to confirm you are real, note me (FA/DA/NG/IB/PX) to let me know you need a confirm. They have an anti-spam measure now to prevent spam posts as much as possible. A user on the site needs to vouch for you to gain full access to the site.

Now onto Art for This Year.
I am not going to take as many commissions this year. Right now I still have 2020 coms to do, and once that is finished I have animation and storytime projects I want to work on. I also just got a new art program that I want to try to learn, so I don't want to take comes while practicing an unfamiliar program. I feel it would be best for me to take on commissions later instead.

The future of my art, though, is planned to be Interactive stuff. I want to play with folks and say hi. I want to make videos and storytimes this year on my Youtube http://www.youtube.com/c/Uluri and with that i ALSO want to make artwork for The Music I have Commissioned for myself. I want to use the music I have for projects and create artwork and animations for them. I want to work on "Troublesome Encounter" first if I can. Then REdo an ARtwork for Fragrant Fields.

NOW BACK TO COMMISSIONS! I was thinking I might want to take on some Comic Commissions in the future this year. Or do some more comic work myself. I am not sure what I want to do, but I do want to draw comics. I personally can't write stories, so I may open for commissions for comic creation.

Prices for 2021 Commissions. It is currently at $30/hour. I am pretty comfortable with this right now. I think I will be keeping my prices at $30/hour.

I think I took on too much the last 3 months of this year. I'm still working on Commissions from October and some current ones from November. I'm almost there. Tough thing is Ima have to stop for a bit in between and work on my Art Recap Video for New Years.

Time.... I lost track of that. just POOOF.

So anyways, I have a couple commissions to post, a chibi gore currently, if I make it two more gore pieces, and a Video. Tomorrow I'll be streaming with Xredmoon I think to work on my video a bit. Gonna be a lot of Dragon Me's being drawn. You guys won't be able to hear what the audio is, though, because I still have that on my phone.

Yup. plans. I got those today.

Excellent. Your responses today. All of them. wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. I am very pleased with every last one of you today.

-Mass posted across everywhere because every last one of you is wonderful.

my brain feels like sugar. Have night that is good.

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For a limited time on orders, Shipping is free from my teespring store. These will be shipped AFTER christmas! My store is filled to the brim with foxes.

Masks $12
Premium Tshirts $25
All over print SHirts $30

I figured since its coming around time, Here are the Main places I reside. Might as well share for folks who want to try out new places. Big ol list for ya with a general idea of what content I post.

Newgrounds | Main Site. I post my General and Gore content on this site.
DeviantArt | Main Site. I post my General and Gore content on this site.
FurAffinity | Main Site. I post everything on this site General, Gore, and nsfw.
Pixiv | Main Site. I post only General rated art on this site.
Weasyl | Main Site. I post everything on this site General, Gore, and nsfw.
Inkbunny | Main Site. I post mostly General and Gore here but some nsfw.
Furry Amino | General rated content only gets cross posted here.
Art Amino | General rated content only gets cross posted here.
PillowFort | I crosspost general and gore here.

Picarto | If you want to watch me stream art and maybe games, follow me here.
Youtube | If you like animations and speedpaints, maybe some storytimes, come and subscribe.

I reside on other sites aside from the listed above, but they aren't sites I am maining. If you want to know more about art sites that I reside and what ones are innactive/abandoned, you can browse my FAQs page: https://ulurifox.wixsite.com/uluri/faqs

okay okay. I.... I can't stop playing stardew Valley. It is SO FUN andthe music is so relaxing and my gosh I love the Fishing. ALso it is so satisfying to Plop in a bunch of Mellons to the Sell drawer. Been playing with elflord and Kaioku nonstop. It hits all the things I like to do in a game and it just makes me so happy to play. I can... farm aimlessly, Fish forever, Battle Slimes, give terrible gifts to the local people, wear stupid outfits, and have a barn full of rabbits. XD Not to mention multi-player all that together.

I really want to keep playing more. This has been the first time i've been able to play games in so long. Aaaaa, its so so nice to do something other than art and read. I shall now proceed to obsess until I am fully satisfied with myself.