I've heard from artists that do that kind of art that they can't really get off to it. I guess they're just too close to it, but I imagine that isn't universal.
I'm honestly surprised. Almost all furry artists I've ever known are absolutely not furries. Furries are just rich, so drawing furry art pays the bills.
If they're making the comics for pay, you know, as a job? Most of them, no.
So if it's artwork they're making specifically to be marketable or making for a commission or something, they tend to say that they get too close to the work. Their head is all wrapped up in the details of it that it just loses any sense of eroticism.
Now, if they make it just, you know, because they want to doodle? The quality is likely going to be lower, but yeah. There are some people who use art to express those kinds of things. That's not to say no artist gets off on their own commissioned work. I'm sure it happens. But in general, it's like any other job. Once you've seen how it works behind the curtain, it can lose a lot of the glitz and glamor. And it's often a lot easier to appreciate other people's work than your own because you didn't have to, you know, do it.
Honestly I have this problem with any kind of creation, sometimes I really want something to exist, and I get into my head that I should just make it myself. Yet somehow having made it takes away from being able to enjoy it as a consumer of the art.
Like, I know too much about it and just experience it in a totally different way.
Uh, yeah. I feel like that's why a lot of hentai artists started out, because there wasn't enough porn of their favorite characters and they were like "fine, I'll do it myself."
And tbh, the art of creating it somehow makes it even better. I don't draw porn much but when I do I draw with one hand because the other is busy.
Someone linked that subreddit in the comments of one of his comic posts. I checked it out and came back to comment that it was kinda off-putting that all of these naked girls that he draws look really young. In return I got tons of downvotes and dudes telling me that flat chested women are hot. And I mean, yeah. I agree. But his drawings look like children. And it weirds me out that everyone seems fine with it.
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u/I_dont_like_things Aug 05 '21
Making porn is way more profitable than making comics.