~RailRide

Yep, I made the video that became the GIF that became my avatar. Despite that, I'm a New Yorker. (Oh, and scroll down--I draw stuff too).
Text formatting is geared to FA's dark theme.

Parts of this profile page are updated frequently, hit F5 if you've been here recently just in case something's changed. Times quoted are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00)

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ART INFO:
Currently Drawing? (week ending 02/08/25) Fitting in some art during late nights here and there, not as much as I'd like to,

Streaming?: Watch this space
--I don't have a stream schedule, and I do them on a very irregular infrequent basis. (An attempt at a test stream mid-October was derailed by a new install of OBS repeatedly crashing on launch)
-- "Watch this space" will become a date/time if I know in advance when I'll have the time and a suitable project to work on.
-- If I'm actually streaming, the link will appear above instead, whether planned or spur-of-the-moment.

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--Slow Connection? Limited Data? I go out of my way to make sure you don't grow weary or blow your mobile data to see my art. Color pics are capped at around 200K and B/W ones around 100. (2024: I'm aware that a lot of pics now average around 1-ish MB, but I'm probably not going to go that large.)

---2019: I don't size my uploads for 4k monitors. Lacking the space for a desktop PC+large monitor, I do all my work on laptops which lack 4k screens, and scrolling around 2000+ pixel images is a pain in the butt, especially after having to [Download] them to be able to read comic text.

--I Always enter descriptions with my uploads. Even if they're commissions. Since I'm a firm believer in being able to effectively convey information, I add a "Technical" section to write about techniques and tactics used in the creation of the pic (especially if I learn something new), as well as the inspiration that made it happen. So oftentimes they are long-winded. But you'll learn stuff about what went into a given submission

--Keep up with what I'm doing art-wise: See this Journal-->(link) Last Update: 02/06/25 -02:30a. The info there will change as I start, advance and complete art projects, (including commissions) sometimes several times a day if I'm actually working on something. This journal gets updated in lieu of spamming my watchers with status journals.

--(Updates on the above are subject to appearing at completely bonkers times of the day/night.)

-Gallery Maintenance: A list (changelog) of tweaks, corrections and updates to my uploads. Updated 08/12/24.

-Commissions: Check --> here <--for offerings, prices and other info. Updated 12/11/2022

-Art trades?:
---Online: Yes, if no outstanding commissions are in-progress*
---At Conventions: Yes
---(I always complete my half of a trade (once it is mutually agreed upon). I'll link to your half when it's done)
*(trades should ideally occur between artists of roughly equal ability...otherwise it gets awkward)

--I have nine eleven fourteen main characters Tour their profiles. <--[link] (None of them are 'fursonas', however. I do not have one, and probably never will).

--All of my characters are long-term ones with varying social ties to each other, expressed in a comic, What, me Furry? that I started around the time I first became aware of this fandom around 1997 (and re-started in 2021 after an 11-year hiatus). The aim is to use this comic and the events taking place within it to provide a baseline behavior reference for other character owners who might envision their OC's interacting with mine, hopefully one day building a network of creators whose OC's cross paths with each other in artwork and short-form comics suggesting that multiple character owners' creations "know" each other and socialize accordingly. See -->this journal <--
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--(TL:DR... I am looking for opportunities to have my OC's interacting with those of other people's, but with context making said interaction believable)

--I may occasionally move a pic to scraps, but I don't clear my gallery in whole or in part. If you +fave something of mine, it's not going to turn into a grey box.

--I have no plans to establish additional accounts for other categories of work. FA's folder system will be employed.

-Content Forecast: +90% General Audience. That's just where most of my inspiration lies. I'm not opposed to drawing full-on sex art but believe it or not, I am rarely asked if I even draw it. I've had only four commissions during my FA presence since 2005 that would qualify as [Adult], all occurring at convention artist-alleys. I look forward to one day drawing and posting a bunch of justifiably red-bordered material on my own, but it may take people commissioning NSFW from me to jumpstart them earlier than if left to my own devices owing to my backlog of 'other inspiration'.

----Trivia: As of 08/24/2024 I have 236 submissions with 1000+ pageviews. Of those, four are Adult, seven are Mature, and 205 are General, with 75 of those over 2000 views, 19 of those topping 3000, three that topped 4000, and one each with 5000+ and 6000+

--Don't let my watcher count fool you...it took me ten years to reach the first 1000. Many artists (and for that matter, non-artists who buy lots of commissions of a popular OC) manage to do that in as little as two years

-Critique: If you see something amiss on a recent upload and mention it early enough, (and it bothers me enough) I may well fix it and reupload the piece
----(That also means I don't play that game of asking for feedback then blocking you for saying "That (insert piece of anatomy) looks off")

-Comments: Don't be afraid to comment on old submissions (or for that matter, recent ones). Really. If it's a question or something else that I can answer, I will. Look down below at my comments given vs comments received stats. I look at FA several times a day, so I see new comments/notes within a day of their being sent (though sometimes I have to think about my answer).

-Other sites: YouTube channel (where my username is actually relevant)-- Artwork topic on JabArchives' forum

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INTERACTION:
--FA added some additional privacy features some time ago. Let's see which ones I'll use:
---hiding my favorites: Nope
---hiding my gallery from guests: Nope
---disabling my notes: Nope
---disabling comments: Nope

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2025 Convention Timeline:
--[01/17/2025]: Reserved vacation time for Anthrocon 2025

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2024 Convention Timeline:
[01/28/2024]: Registered for Anthrocon 2024 (pre-reg is needed to recieve hotel reservation link via email)
[01/30/2024]: Filed PA sales tax for 2023 (delayed because PA's switch from e-Tides to MyPATH required you to request a snailmailed access document with a code to access your account, which takes "5-10 business days" to arrive...mine took 10 days and arrived on the 29th)
[01/31/2024]: Received 2024 tax ID document via PDF. This is necessary to apply for Artist's Alley this year.
[02/08/2024]: I was not able to get into the reservation system at the stroke of 5pm. I was travelling between work locations and could only access the system 15 minutes later. Needless to say the existing blocks are all sold out. I'll have to try the waitlist system once it's put in, but things are looking not-so good.
[03/05/2024]: Made waitlist reservation for Anthrocon 2024. I have no idea which hotel I'm going to wind up in.
[04/08/2024]: Received word from 'Anthrocon housing' that I've been placed in the Kimpton Monaco hotel. It's that classy joint you pass just before reaching the Omni, and while it's reasonably close to the Amtrak station come Monday, boy oh boy is that a pricey joint. $1135 total for four nights.
[04/10/2024]: Purchased train tickets for travel to/from Anthrocon
[04/22/2024]: Signed up for Anthrocon Artist's Alley
[06/01/2024]: Received notice of Anthrocon Artist Alley seat asssignment: C-31 for all three days
[07/01/2024]: Received email confirmation from the Kimpton Monaco for room reservations

Green= Arrangements made - Yellow= Action taken - White= No action taken yet - Black= Completed

[Registration] - [Hotel] - [Transportation] - [Artist's Alley] -Anthrocon 2024 (July 4 - July 7)

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-Does fan or gift art?: Infrequently, due to my backlog of personal works waiting for inks and color. Planned pieces are in a 'fanart queue' in the status journal linked above in orange text.
-Sanctions fanart/giftart of his own characters: Yes (No squick edits, That includes ABDL, geez)
-Does requests: Almost effectively ruled out, for the same reasons as fanart.
-Shouts in the form of questions will be answered via notes. Because a conversation via shoutbox looks weird.
-Email: This username at Mindspring.com. Or tack on a zero and change the domain to Gmail.
-Social Media: Facebook is a huge time-sink that's losing relevancy, TwittX is a dumpster fire that also fails as an art gallery, and Bluesky is not as immune to AI scraping as those who flocked there believe (while also failing as a gallery for the same reasons as X). YouTube (and to a lesser extent, Discord) is the closest I get to "mainstream" social media.

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Achievement unlocked: Username is also my XBox gamertag and YouTube channel

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"Why don't you ask the smartest people in the universe, Jerry? Oh yeah, you can't--they blew up."