Ah, neat!
*commissions a life size Utunu painting*

Be careful, at this pace you're going to run out of wall space eventually! X-D

Oh wow! thats awesome!~

That's really neat!
But no one is talking to her...

Yeah, that's unfortunate! I hope somebody does take the title seriously though. Obviously for the photo I waited for a moment in which the room was half empty but the painting will be there for quite a while.

Congratulations!

that is so wonderful... way to bring furry to the world...

V.

Awesome :3

Congratulations! I miss Turin. We were there in 2013 for the world masters games. Beautiful city.

Thanks! It's a nice city indeed, with a quite active art scene. I hope you get a chance to visit it again someday.

Thanks! I'll make sure to do many more. :-D

It's should be really great feeling to have/make something like that.

Indeed it is! I wish many more furry artists would try it, it's not too difficult to get to know local artists and as long as the artwork is not outright porn it's not too difficult to get into group exhibits either. Especially for people who live in big cities.

Continuo sempre a chiedermi le reazioni del pubblico... non si tratta di soggetti che si vedono tutti i giorni...

Eh, è molto difficile ricevere o cogliere commenti in questi eventi collettivi, è tutta un'altra cosa rispetto al postare online dove il feedback lo ricevi subito. Quando mi sono "appostato" un po' non ho mai colto commenti negativi, ma è chiaro che la maggior parte delle persone non capisce il senso di immagini come questa - perchè sono tutti disabituati da un secolo a ragionare sul significato delle immagini, aggiungo io. Quando ho avuto occasione di spiegare un po' meglio il senso delle immagini nella mostra personale dell'anno scorso è andata meglio, anche se per ora non ho trovato modo di vendere ai non-furry. X-D Ma continuerò a provare, ci sono ancora un bel po' di approcci che voglio tentare, tantopiù che ormai mi sento abbastanza a posto come tecnica e posso tornare a concentrarmi di più sui contenuti.

Mai provato l'approccio "venghino, signori!" con tuba e bastone?
Non credevo funzionasse, tuttavia...

A seconda del contesto potrebbe anche funzionare. X-D

Wait... are we talking Turin - like the Turin in Italy?

Yep, that's the city where I live.

I am SO envious on so many different levels right now. :)

Congratulations... very, very impressive. :)

Thank you! X-D Sounds like you have you been here before? It's a cool city indeed, not too chaotic considering the size, and the artistic scene is quite lively.

Not Turin - just Rome, I'm afraid, but I've heard about the art community in Turin and the indie art scene and things like Flashback.

Ah cool! Indeed it is, I'll be visiting Flashback for the first time this year to see how it works. I've been to Rome several times but it's too chaotic for my taste, I prefer to be a short way from the countryside.

It always surprised me that galleries accept your work, since the fine art world always seemed very narrow minded to me. Maybe it's different in Italy being the heart of the Renaissance and all, but over here in Ireland galleries and critics seem to use every opportunity they can to take a dig at illustration and push ideas that it's "dead" or inferior.

From what I've seen presentation matters a lot. A large traditional media painting is going to attract some attention no matter the subject. I haven't sold paintings to non-furries yet but I have no problem getting accepted by smaller galleries and I'm working on a long term plan to approach larger galleries - which also has more to do with the size, amount and consistency of works than it has with the subjects.

If you look at places like Illuxcon that's the strategy professional fantasy illustrators are following in order to get their work noticed by the art world at large. They are making large and exquisitely crafted paintings which draw on traditional art far beyond the commercial scope of most fantasy illustration, and judging from their sales and from the exhibits some of them are having into actual art galleries, it's working and it's attracting the attention of collectors. Backward critics can deny it all they want, but they'll cave in sooner or later, since their job is ultimately making up excuses for why collectors value certain things over others, and nowadays the tastes of collectors are very varied.

Furry art may still have some way to go before it produces true masterpieces, but nowadays there's nothing forcing it into a secluded niche any more. It's all up to the individual furry artists' ability (and will) to understand how the art world at large works and to create works which can fit.

Nice! Looks like you're in good company!