What Was I Saying...?

Muscid Draconis by Amy Pronovost
Mouse dragons! How can you not love 'em? Very nice color work, too. The "beads" border must have been a lot of work!

C Eagle by Cara Mitten
Nifty avian 'furry' design, that gets bonus points for being a pic of somebody I know. :) Lots of detail.

-The Gneech

Trickster by Stina Lovkvist
Autumn leaves, a deep forest, a fox with a roguish look ... what's not to love? My only gripe is that I can't decisively tell the gender.

-The Gneech

Dancin' by Meaghan Arbital
Not actually posted today, but who cares? ;) She says it's supposed to be a tanuki, but it looks like a raccoon to me! Given the R-rated anatomy peculiar to tanuki, I'm not sure you could post a tanuki pic on Yerf without strategic placement of furniture or something.

Anyway, I love the pose and attitude. Very fun pic!

-The Gneech

EDIT: Oh! Also! A nice quote via chef_troy:

"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself; it means thinking of yourself less."
--C.S. Lewis

Dancing Elephants by Meaghan Arbital
Lots of energy and character! So much of the stuff on Yerf is angsty squiggles or snarly demon gargoyles with sharp corners, that whenever I see happy, 'toony stuff, I instinctively cheer!

-The Gneech

More thoughts on Yerf's absence, and on art communities in general. One of my all-time favorite things about Yerf was that there was always something new to be found, by simply clicking on the "Recent Uploads" page. Given Yerf's fairly stringent (if sometimes unevenly-distributed) requirements, you could generally be confident that the stuff that appeared there would be pretty good, and due to Yerf's liveliness (for lack of a better term), you could be pretty sure that a daily check would net you something worth looking at.

This is one of the things I miss the most, actually, is the daily shot-in-the-arm of inspiration. My artistic ability thrives when surrounded by creative input, and tends to flounder when left in isolation -- which is a major reason I'm such a con-hound. So I've been looking for an alternate place to find that fix.

Artvark, alas, is officially "retiring," so that is kind of a wash. YNA seems to be picking up a bit, so I'll be checking that regularly now. I try to check out DeviantArt periodically, but the navigation there ranges from "incredibly confusing" to "completely incomprehensible," with occasional stops at "INTENSELY FRUSTRATING!!!" ... so I tend to avoid it. (Wow, I miss the simplicity of Yerf!) Too bad, too, 'cause there's some nice stuff there. VCL, of course, is not browsable at work -- and only barely browseable at home without my eyes melting. (Thus, I'm grateful to people like doodlesthegreat who post "VCL Picks of the Day." Speaking of which, happy birthday, Doodles!)

There is also furryartists, but that tends to be more "I have an auction up!" announcements than actual art posts -- and even those are only two or three a month.

I know there's still art out there being made, and good stuff, too! It's just a matter of finding it.

-The Gneech