2. I want to stab those people in the face with bullets.

Not entirely sure why this post is in this community though?

Black characters?

1) "I thought you'd be bigger. You don't much look like your characters."
Now HOW does one respond to that kind of comment?

*snort*
like they're one to talk, cus you know, I totally thought my friends were anthropomorphic dogs and dragons

I've only been in the artist alley at one convention (anime though, not furry) and got some equally rude comments myself. I don't get it. :(

And wtf, black characters? Why does it matter to them? D: People are people. Period.

Well at least you hear equally retarded things at fantasy conventions as you do at furry conventions.
And yeah what is the problem with having black characters?
I would have countered, "what with all the white characters? Maybe I'm one of the few artists to deviate from the historically racist assumption that all fantasy characters need be white."

Ugh, I had coffee come out of my nose when I heard #2.

>> 1) "I thought you'd be bigger. You don't much look like your characters."


I have gotten that one more than once at EVERY SINGLE furry convention I've gone to.

Yes and of course I look like a ten foot tall werewolf who is over ten times my weight. My mirror must be broken!

1 - "I am bigger! *winkwink*nudgenudge* And, no. I won't show you."

2 - "Because my mind and hand refuse to do so. They are, however, currently locked in a battle of wills over whether I should gouge out your eyes with a pencil, or the table."

3 - "I prefer to think of myself as highly specialized." (Specifically not snarky because, well... Sometimes people just want to see what you'd do with something, mainly because they see something in your style that makes them think you'd do something really well. Unless they're just a clueless git with a one-track mind. Ask why. then let the fun begin. *grin*)

4 - "I keep spilling the india ink and out pours all this sexy..."

5 - "Why do ANY of us have to be here?" "The voices commanded it..." "Hetero-phobic much?" "SOMEone has to have a wrist strong enough to tap the keg/open the beer/punch the cop who tries to hassle you when the party gets busted." (Last comment reserved only for the blatantly hetero-phobe who's just going to hassle you all night anyway. Especially funny if everyone around him perceives him to be a clueless killjoy.)

#2 would end in me thoat-kicking. >:O
#5 is just mean. ;_;

wow... most problems I have are that I get people telling me I shouldn't be taking commissions until I'm as good as Glenn,rakeesh (insert random artist here) blah blah blah and that in person I don't talk much :p

I would say about the cute kids, it'd be like.... you know you want to see a pikachu being stabbed with a knife, but how would YOU like it if I stabbed YOU with the knife?!

My husband, Strider, has gotten the comment, "You're STRAIGHT?! You draw THIS and you're STRAIGHT?!!"

It amuses me sometimes at folks' preconceptions of an artists based solely on their art.

lmao, prejudice among furries, most ironic thing ever.

YEA FOR STRAIGHT, NON-PEDO FURS! WHOOO! Fight tha man!