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Apologies in advance for the length and wordiness of this post.
Quick overview for the people who aren't up to date with the furry community and don't know certain terms:
There is a certain style of art that happens to be really popular with a certain sub category of the furry community. It's called "Macro" which is basically drawing a character that's incredibly large that also likes to destroy things in their path and stomping/crushing on people. Think Godzilla destroying a city and you get the concept. It can also be a fetish for these people (leave it to the furry community to turn something like that into a sexual thing), namely the foot fetishists because most macro art heavily emphasizes feet closeups and crushed people being stuck to the large character's feet.
I personally don't get it but whatever floats their boats. As an Asexual I stay far away from the sexual aspect of the furry community and I like the art on my page to represent that.
Unfortunately I have unintentionally allowed myself to be targeted by these macro people because of one favor I ended up doing for one of my most loyal repeat customers.
I have one customer who loves my work and also happens to like a bit of the maco art. He understands that I am not a macro artist and that I also don't do heavy industrial things like cityscapes and complicated architecture, but he has politely asked for a few clean mild macro influenced commissions from me, with him and I striking up a deal that he would be the only one I would do such art for and that he would give me tons of artistic freedom to choose the settings of the art so I would be comfortable. Basically just a few images of his anthro bird character looming over a town but being 500 feet tall, etc. Stuff like that.
Keep in mind that I put disclaimers all over my page and on my commissions journal stating this fact. They are pretty hard to miss.
Well this customer recently asked if I would be comfortable doing 2 page gray scale comic of his bird stomping around a town and crushing some people. I decided to accept this commission as a one time thing because I still don't like doing that type of stuff because I find comics to be extra tedious, and then adding all of the people etc in the scenes take a long time.
Anyway, 2 pages of the comic are finished and I chose NOT to upload the images to my personal gallery as not to confuse people making it look like I do macro art as a normal thing. The customer did, however, upload the comics to his page (with permission) while also putting multiple disclaimers stating his deal with me regarding macro art. The comics got tons of exposure on his page and gave him a mass of new followers. Unfortunately some of these new followers decided not to read the disclaimers and have been flocking to my page sending me notes for macro commissions.
The note I received this morning going in detail about this macro foot thing he wanted, and also of it featuring a "fat fur" character (which is another furry fetish) in a sexually suggestive pose really irritated me because this person blatantly ignored the list of things that I DON'T DO that I wrote on my commission info journal. I know he saw the journal because had had made a direct comment on my journal asking me if I was still open for commissions. Not only did he ignore that, he ignored the big bolded statement at the top of my user page that I DON'T DO ADULT THEMED ART.
I sent him a reply stating that I don't do macro and then copypasta'd the part of my commissions journal listing what I do and don't do, along with the part that explains how I only do some macro for that one customer but that I appreciated his interest in my art.
He replied with "Oh well it was worth a shot" which implied to me that he HAD read all of my disclaimers but chose to ignore them and see if he could get me to do the art for him anyway. What part of "NO" don't some of these people understand?
I since went through my gallery and posted a huge disclaimer on any art that I have done for my repeat customer that has any hint of macro.
Yeah, my bad for accepting that deal with my customer but I value his loyalty and he's given me tons of business to make up for it.
Quick overview for the people who aren't up to date with the furry community and don't know certain terms:
There is a certain style of art that happens to be really popular with a certain sub category of the furry community. It's called "Macro" which is basically drawing a character that's incredibly large that also likes to destroy things in their path and stomping/crushing on people. Think Godzilla destroying a city and you get the concept. It can also be a fetish for these people (leave it to the furry community to turn something like that into a sexual thing), namely the foot fetishists because most macro art heavily emphasizes feet closeups and crushed people being stuck to the large character's feet.
I personally don't get it but whatever floats their boats. As an Asexual I stay far away from the sexual aspect of the furry community and I like the art on my page to represent that.
Unfortunately I have unintentionally allowed myself to be targeted by these macro people because of one favor I ended up doing for one of my most loyal repeat customers.
I have one customer who loves my work and also happens to like a bit of the maco art. He understands that I am not a macro artist and that I also don't do heavy industrial things like cityscapes and complicated architecture, but he has politely asked for a few clean mild macro influenced commissions from me, with him and I striking up a deal that he would be the only one I would do such art for and that he would give me tons of artistic freedom to choose the settings of the art so I would be comfortable. Basically just a few images of his anthro bird character looming over a town but being 500 feet tall, etc. Stuff like that.
Keep in mind that I put disclaimers all over my page and on my commissions journal stating this fact. They are pretty hard to miss.
Well this customer recently asked if I would be comfortable doing 2 page gray scale comic of his bird stomping around a town and crushing some people. I decided to accept this commission as a one time thing because I still don't like doing that type of stuff because I find comics to be extra tedious, and then adding all of the people etc in the scenes take a long time.
Anyway, 2 pages of the comic are finished and I chose NOT to upload the images to my personal gallery as not to confuse people making it look like I do macro art as a normal thing. The customer did, however, upload the comics to his page (with permission) while also putting multiple disclaimers stating his deal with me regarding macro art. The comics got tons of exposure on his page and gave him a mass of new followers. Unfortunately some of these new followers decided not to read the disclaimers and have been flocking to my page sending me notes for macro commissions.
The note I received this morning going in detail about this macro foot thing he wanted, and also of it featuring a "fat fur" character (which is another furry fetish) in a sexually suggestive pose really irritated me because this person blatantly ignored the list of things that I DON'T DO that I wrote on my commission info journal. I know he saw the journal because had had made a direct comment on my journal asking me if I was still open for commissions. Not only did he ignore that, he ignored the big bolded statement at the top of my user page that I DON'T DO ADULT THEMED ART.
I sent him a reply stating that I don't do macro and then copypasta'd the part of my commissions journal listing what I do and don't do, along with the part that explains how I only do some macro for that one customer but that I appreciated his interest in my art.
He replied with "Oh well it was worth a shot" which implied to me that he HAD read all of my disclaimers but chose to ignore them and see if he could get me to do the art for him anyway. What part of "NO" don't some of these people understand?
I since went through my gallery and posted a huge disclaimer on any art that I have done for my repeat customer that has any hint of macro.
Yeah, my bad for accepting that deal with my customer but I value his loyalty and he's given me tons of business to make up for it.
Brilliant. 
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