Public Service Announcement

[bladespark]

90% of the fursuits I make are NOT designed by me. I make them according to my customer's designs. So would people please stop telling me how to improve my designs? They're not mine! I can't change them! I just do what I'm paid to do, okay? If you want to critique my design work, you can comment on my personal suits, but anything I've made for a customer, it is not my fault if it's a design monstrosity.

P.S. Okay, there is one non personal suit that I designed. Loooooooooong long ago I made a red dragon suit for a customer who said "I want a dragon, with red, grey, smoke and fire-ish things, make up something." Someday, someday it will happen again. Someday, and that day will be a happy day.

Comments

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

who is giving you shit about a design?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Nobody's giving me shit, exactly. I just keep getting people who suggest "improvements" to things I HAD to do. Like saying this raccoon suit would be better if the pale grey eye were darker and more defined. And I'm all "It probably would be, but I can't do that because the customer wanted it light colored." In that one forum thread I have said THREE TIMES that it looks the way the customer wanted, and nobody seems to be actually reading what I'm saying.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

ugh. idiocy. *headdesk* people just love to throw their 2 cents in no matter what. jackasses.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

I try really hard to resist the urge to do it, because your construction is so awesome. So kick me in the shins if I do, okay?

(I will admit, 90% of furry artists' versions of 'collies' and 'huskies' drive me nuts. Collies are NOT chocolate brown, they do NOT have husky-type white masks, and they come in colors other than sables; huskies have brush tails, not curled (curled is a major fault, although it's correct in malamutes), they do not always have blue eyes, and yes, some of them even have solid dark faces....)

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

My pet peeve along those lines is pawpads on rabbits. Which I've had to do. :P "But it's so cute!" they say. "Yes, but it's so wrong," says I.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

If I see one more collie drawn with a stop and a non-tapered muzzle and prick ears, there may be bloodshed. Just saying.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Or, conversely, with a total wedgehead. Had to add that. Collie heads are tricky, yeah- but they're SO distinctive as part of the breed. ALmond eyes, NOT too large (but not piggy), that beautiful broad tapered muzzle, tiny distinct stop, parallel head planes, and semi-prick ears set nice and high- oh, and no giant flaring cheeks.....

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

He he he. Well, there are SOME allowances for cartooning. Consider that rabbits hardly have cheeks at all, then look at Bugs Bunny. But on suits trying to be realistic? No kidding!

[jackalopejess.livejournal.com]

I hear ya on the husky tail thing. I understand that people like curled husky tails, but they only curl them over when walking, right?

Also, (no offense to LV) I get really bugged by husky tails that look like this. http://mixedcandymascots.com/gallery/d/5021-2/3.jpg They stick straight out your butt and then curl over at the end. Is there a real animal on this planet whose tail looks like that? Cause if there is, please show me. :P

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Real dog tails do not do that at all. And yet right now I have a stack of unfortunately similar husky tails here, because tails like that sell. Oh well!

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Actually, they can curl them over when standing still- but it's called a gay tail and it's a major fault.

If they curl them in motion? It's a MAJOR fault. Old-time mushers swear a dog with his tail up isn't pulling his share and won't keep 'em!

They're supposed to be carried out 'like a banner'- that pretty plume. Malamutes should be carried up, both still and in motion- but their tailset (and really their whole rear assembly) is a little different- the difference between the heavy-duty freighting dog and the speed demons.

[silveradept]

Ouch. Designed to spec is a blessing and curse, it sounds like.

[ulariogryphon.livejournal.com]

Reading some of the comments others have made, I feel like I need to add my two cents.

Personally, I think my biggest pet peeve is when somebody tells me how a mythical beast SHOULD look... I.E. when someone tells me something like "Dragons shouldn't have manes."

WTF?! When you see a real dragon, show it to me and from then on I'll start drawing it exactly like that. >:(

I swear... It seems like some people just have to find something to bitch about.

[jackalopejess.livejournal.com]

. . . the hell? People actually do that? D:

YEAH I DON'T CARE IF ITS SOMEONE ELSES FURSONA, THE DESIGN SUCKS UR DOIN IT WRONG

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

People don't seem to understand that the suits I post in places aren't MY suits. Maybe because most pro makers either never post to lj/forums ever, or get all fancy with logos and stuff. *shrugs* I've never wanted to act like a corporation, I'm one girl sewing in her bedroom, for heaven's sake! But I guess the price I pay is people who don't pay attention and haven't got a clue that this is my job and not just my hobby.

[jackalopejess.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why they wouldn't understand. I mean, with all the suits you make/post, do they really think all of those are yours? Or maybe that logic doesn't click in their heads. :P