General
Can I draw your characters?
Sure! If you do, please tag me or otherwise show it to me! If you need references, the Characters page or my main off-site gallery might help.
How about explicit art of your characters?
Absolutely. All that I ask is that you keep my fursona out of it and avoid anything too extreme. Rule of thumb being that if it's subject matter I haven't drawn before, it should probably be avoided. You can always ask me if you're not sure!
Do you take suggestions/requests?
Yes! You can submit ideas on whatever "anonymous submission" website I'm currently using; check the Sites page.
Do you take commissions?
I don't. ("Why not?") I'm very picky about what I draw and tend to do it on a whim, so I'd have to either turn away a lot of people or resort to drawing things I don't care about just for the money, neither of which I'd want to do and both of which would likely require me to force myself to draw when I don't want to. Then I'd also have to figure out how much my art is worth, mess with payment processors that might reveal too much personal information to anyone paying me and are constantly hostile towards NSFW artists, deal with freelance taxes, consider the implications of turning a hobby into a job...overall I'm really just not interested in any of that unless it'd be the only thing keeping me off the streets.
Do you have a Patreon? Ko-fi?
I don't. Taking money makes me uncomfortable, plus the payment processing complications I mentioned in the previous answer. I'd encourage you to spend your funds on any of the plethora of hard-working artists out there who need your business to survive instead.
Do you plan to do merch? Plushies?
No, for the same reasons as above, plus having to navigate working with a production company as some lone guy who's never done a business deal in his life. In my mind that's how you end up getting the rights to your characters stolen.
Can I commission art of your characters from someone else?
I'd rather you didn't. I don't really have a good reason for this except that it makes me vaguely uncomfortable.
Would you ever consider streaming your art?
Not art, no. I've considered streaming games, but my art process is so bad that I'd only be embarrassing myself and potentially teaching people wrong.
What artists have inspired you?
I hesitate to name names because I'm very bad with names and I feel like I'd forget a lot of very important people. Much of the influence is subconscious too, so I couldn't even confidently tell you. You can probably figure some out by looking at whose art I frequently share, though.
Can you draw Braixen/Lucario?
I think there's plenty of that already.
Can I draw your characters?
Sure! If you do, please tag me or otherwise show it to me! If you need references, the Characters page or my main off-site gallery might help.
How about explicit art of your characters?
Absolutely. All that I ask is that you keep my fursona out of it and avoid anything too extreme. Rule of thumb being that if it's subject matter I haven't drawn before, it should probably be avoided. You can always ask me if you're not sure!
Do you take suggestions/requests?
Yes! You can submit ideas on whatever "anonymous submission" website I'm currently using; check the Sites page.
Do you take commissions?
I don't. ("Why not?") I'm very picky about what I draw and tend to do it on a whim, so I'd have to either turn away a lot of people or resort to drawing things I don't care about just for the money, neither of which I'd want to do and both of which would likely require me to force myself to draw when I don't want to. Then I'd also have to figure out how much my art is worth, mess with payment processors that might reveal too much personal information to anyone paying me and are constantly hostile towards NSFW artists, deal with freelance taxes, consider the implications of turning a hobby into a job...overall I'm really just not interested in any of that unless it'd be the only thing keeping me off the streets.
Do you have a Patreon? Ko-fi?
I don't. Taking money makes me uncomfortable, plus the payment processing complications I mentioned in the previous answer. I'd encourage you to spend your funds on any of the plethora of hard-working artists out there who need your business to survive instead.
Do you plan to do merch? Plushies?
No, for the same reasons as above, plus having to navigate working with a production company as some lone guy who's never done a business deal in his life. In my mind that's how you end up getting the rights to your characters stolen.
Can I commission art of your characters from someone else?
I'd rather you didn't. I don't really have a good reason for this except that it makes me vaguely uncomfortable.
Would you ever consider streaming your art?
Not art, no. I've considered streaming games, but my art process is so bad that I'd only be embarrassing myself and potentially teaching people wrong.
What artists have inspired you?
I hesitate to name names because I'm very bad with names and I feel like I'd forget a lot of very important people. Much of the influence is subconscious too, so I couldn't even confidently tell you. You can probably figure some out by looking at whose art I frequently share, though.
Can you draw Braixen/Lucario?
I think there's plenty of that already.
Characters
How old is [character]?
All of my characters are in their mid-20's. The people of Tela already vary in size and proportions more than humans, but Puri & Ruby are especially affected due to their cartoon blood; They are chibis, mascots, whatever you want to call them, but are still very much adults.
What would [character] look like as another species/gender?
I never really know what to do with these questions because my characters' appearances are a major part of their identities to me. Like if I drew "Puri as a frog" that'd just be a frog with Puri's personality and outfit. I don't really get it.
Could you draw a Ruby version of this Puri drawing? (Or vice versa?)
I tend to avoid this sort of thing because it essentially boils down to a head swap and a recolor and that personally feels cheap to me. Also they have two different personalities so a lot of times they wouldn't end up in the same situations reacting the same way.
What is [character]'s favorite [type of food]?
I don't have an answer to these types of questions because taste is so arbitrary that I could say literally anything and it could be true. All I can say for sure is that Puri & Ruby like sweet things.
What does [character] sound like?
I really wish I had an answer to this, but I can never really place it. I'm rarely thinking about it when I hear famous people speak, and if I chose one I think I'd just end up being disappointed when I'd have to "settle" for a sound-alike if I ever had them voiced in something. I welcome input on what you think they sound like, though.
How do Puri & Ruby interact with their fans in-universe?
As much as I get asked this, I still don't really have a good answer. Obviously considering the nature of their jobs and unique appearances they'd end up becoming quite famous, but I think for now I'm just going to have to say that due to some mysterious forces they don't actually get that much public attention.
Would Puri do that "null body" thing to someone else?
Nope. It's an innate property of her cartoon body.
Does Ruby ever get payback for how Puri teases her?
Even if I considered Puri's good-natured teasing worthy of "payback," Ruby isn't really the type to do that. Remember: Puri is an empath, and only teases people when she knows they like it.
Does [character] ever do [real-world animal behavior]?
Nope. I might include a reference to their animal counterpart somewhere but for all intents and purposes Telans are just people who look like animals.
Has Puri or Ruby ever faced an evil clone of themselves?
Nope.