#painty so me fr

[watchinz]

Trying out some new designs ig.... look chat, let me cope okay??????

[scourgefrontiers]

google search "what does it mean that i keep having the urge to make a new fursona practically every week"

[duckduckhjonk]

We go episode 2!!

Oh Cheesy this is getting exhausted lmao

LMFAO

Cherries is awesome tbh

Cosmically entwined haters

Are they no longer haters???

NOOOO THEY DONT FUCKING HATE EACH OTHER NOW THAT WAS FAR TOO EASILY SOLVED

Rip Marshmallow-

Ectosphere?

THE FUCKUNG CALM DOWN CORNER?????

OH????? NOOOOOOOOO MOTHERFUCKER

Oh I love you Toilet

MEPAD?????

Poor Toilet :{

Cherries that was quick

MePhone please be nice to Toilet

Lightbulb is so real for that

THE EXPRESSION THIS SEASON ARE AWESOME!!

Marsmallow

Omga what

Thank you Mepad for this awesome commentary

Rip these guys 😔

Rip tissues, me fr

LMFAO

I fucking love this guy

No more tissues

Love you MePad

Love you Cheesy

Lmfao the knife diss

Hell yeah critter

THE EXPRESSIONS

Lemon power?????

I miss Taco....

The chocolate bar...

PAINT BRUSH NOO

This poor critter

This thing will be having a mental breakdown later on won't she?

The it/it's on Painty

Let Balloon have a chance let's go!!!!!!

Paint Brush is such a boss

Oh come on let him go

Cosmically entwined...

Nah Knife is real for that

Trophie is less real for that

Trophy? Trophie? How's it spelt...

Don't do that man

:{

Oo echo-y

Man Inanimate Insanity has themes of Isolation

EGG

EGG ALERT!!!!!

Lmfao

No service on mars

Shut up MePhone

It's his son now, shut up MePhone

LET HIM BE PATHETIC!!!!!

That's seaweed....

Toilets trying his best!!!!

Shut up MePhone

God I love you Cheesy

That's it for episode 2! Again, enjoyable, I think this was a better start than what season 1 had by far. I'm quite satisfied with all of this. See ya Monday! And again, if you have any questions for me my inbox is always open :3

[rileyclaw]

Lovely pumpkin patch fanart! (All of your art is awesome, actually.)

Any advice for someone who struggles with backgrounds? Cause, dang, that's a lot of pumpkins.

firstly thank you so much!!

And secondly-- I can offer a few tips and tricks I use in backgrounds to help? I luckily have some screenshots of the pumpkin piece in the basic stages I made it in- and ill kinda go over my thought process for it??

I always look for at least a few pics for reference, even if all I do is just nab colour from it or an idea for layout- and I lay out this super simple sketch. (If it was architecture or an interior, I might do a box model in Blender or Maya, depending on complexity! Cuz hard edges in perspective make me wanna cry fr)

Most of this layout was from my brain but I definitely needed help with all those pumpkins so I stared at a field of pumpkins and kinda mimicked how they all.. overlapped. Lots of circles that I'm pretty sure kept turning into ovals but I didn't care enough to fix because hey!! Im not going for perfect, Im going for what makes me go "yeah this looks SICK and it WORKS who cares about the small stuff"

For me this is all I need to get begun colouring - it's different when I'm doing flat colour with linework, since that needs more intricacy (for me at least!) - but I go in and block in my basic colours and values with usually only a lasso tool, paint buckets, and maybe a mixy-painty brush or two for adding more variation in colour. (sorry I was taking screenshots in Clip to send to friends FHSJD so they're all wonky)

Keep in mind your fore, middle, and backgrounds!! - and how those values will contrast with one another! I marked the far back with the yellow trees, the middle with a more saturated orange, and the foreground with the more 'darkened' pumpkins. That'll help you imply depth in a 2d image.

From that point on for me it was all refinement! My cake is there, now it needs the "frosting". I usually add in characters after laying out a scene because I find it easier perspective-wise but it's different for everyone! I go in and fix weird colours that don't work, add things like atmospheric perspective (when things farther away appear "lighter/less saturated" bc of the atmosphere between you and it) and tiny details until,, eventually this happens??

This is just the way I've found I normally go about backgrounds!! I was kinda self taught on environments so maybe my process is wacky but it's mine and it works most of the time!! at least, for what I want to make .

(and with all the pumpkins, if you look closely you notice I barely rendered most of them at all! I just gave them the contour of their sides-- tedious, sure, but I think it only took maybe 20 minutes and was easier than me going in and making each one perfectly rendered because haha! n o )

[iniquity-fr]

this post itself is poorly made lol srry... anyway! commissions!!!! fun painty portraits!!!!! get ‘em here!!!

gijinka (or any other humanoid characters) only rn! existing designs/things with references for 2000g for custom design/anything without refs it’s 2500g cause.. yknow... extra effort.......

rules/slots under cut, boosts would be very much appreciated please & thank you!

no anthros/furries or complicated mech stuff, everything is obviously sfw, body horror is fine tho!!! :>

no FR forum thread for this bc i hate touching the forums lol. contact me here through IM or u can message me on FR itself at iniquity #52795 (alternatively my discord is miskatonic#6955)

if getting a custom design this is Mostly an artistic freedom sort of thing but obvs you’re welcome (encouraged) to give any input on things like outfit/accessories, facial features, expression, etc etc. the less u tell me the more i will take the reigns and do what i want, so if you have something very specific in mind ya gotta let me know! thanks.

four slots at a time to start with ! will probably post them all in a set together if i get that many at once. if for w/e reason you don’t want me to post it lemme know in advance. payment due upon approval of sketch before coloring !

slots (0/4 taken)

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will update here as needed. thanks for reading :^)

[brightmoontrigon]

I really wanted to let you know something, even if it sounds a little weird... I remember my days on a petsite where we never talked personally, but you complimented one of my painties and I want to say it meant so much to me. I followed one of your links to Flight Rising and I know I never would have met half my friends if it wasn't for that link. Last I checked you moved on, but I went back and followed you here to say thank you. your blogs always brighten my day, too. thank so so much!

Aw!!! This is such a sweet message anon, and not weird at all; thank you for letting me know! I’m so happy to hear that I could contribute, even indirectly, to someone finding friends and a site they enjoy. Although I’m not active on FR or FV currently, I still have fond feelings for all the creative and kind people I met there. 💛

[ashenhart-rising]

since FR and Furvilla both allow offsite trading i was wondering if people could help me figure out what my stuff on furvilla would be worth. I don't really play it that much since I don't really get what i'm doing, and i'm less interested in collecting the items. i was a beta tester, so i have a Shield of Discourse (130%) and a Security Beta Bug +10 (Male). i also have a single paintie ticket, as well as the following magical plushes: snowman fox plush scarf rabbit plush snow dragon plush penguin velociraptor plush also a jolt amulet, whatever that is. I'm primarily interested in flight rising currency tbh, and I'm not sure what the cross-site economy is like. Since (i'm assuming) the shield and beta bug are limited items due to being beta rewards i would like something of roughly equal value. other than that tbh I have no idea so just hmu with offers

[bloomaroo]

you know what would make neopets really compelling for me again and make converted pets compelling to own

if we could upload skins/painties like FR/furvilla (I’d be fine if they strictly have to stay in the base lines like FR, but want no quality control like FV so everyone can do it)

I mean, I was fairly content doing custom overlays on their profiles but that’s technically against the rules so I’m less motivated to start that up again :’)

[moonlit-dragons]

I literally have NO IDEA of how to play Furvilla, so I'm selling my stuff for FR currency. I have a five-digit villager and paintie ticket. Please message me for details!

[denu-rising]

Just sorting my thoughts

TL;WR: Furvilla really sucks and I could get a Light Sprite.

So, I took some time after hatching all my 20+ Serpent’s Eggs and getting nothing but commons and uncommons to calm down and think about if I actually even enjoy playing Furvilla. Why did I ever sign up, what’s been keeping me around? Are those things still worth my time and effort?

Reason I signed up: I have not been able to breed anything good since the colour wheel update. Over half my lair’s a breeding project. Some with ridiculous ranges, because I need them with the right genes. I can’t afford to regene a whole lot with my gem gene theme. Also, I can never find dragons with a better, closer range. I gotta play that RNG game, and I lose every time. I wanted something new with achievable goals, and along came FV.

Reasons I fell in love: The art’s adorable, I love making Painties, and I love collecting and breeding pets to fill up my menagerie. Since I’ve been on FV since day 1, I fully expected to be able to collect all the things, as long as I put in the effort. The menagerie was like a bestiary I actually could fill.

Looking back now: Staff seems determined to make the menagerie impossible to complete. I tried ignoring the FD pets, that would cost literal hundreds of dollars each month to keep up with. Turns out the festival pets are even more problematic. No one’s getting the cute pets they want, everyone’s upset and disappointed. The site’s basically an elaborate cookie clicker with money hungry admins and little pay-off. There are no games to play, just a bunch of stuff to click daily/hourly. It’s not good for my wrist AT ALL. I’d rather Coli. Granted, not counting the Serpent’s Eggs fiasco, RNG has been kinder to me on FV than on FR, but there’s too much RNG on FV and luck alone won’t sustain me. It runs out, as I’ve seen with those eggs, while FR has balanced everything out so that if method x doesn’t work, you can get it done with y.

Trying to decide: I mean, I always said I’d leave this hellhole if I couldn’t fill my menagerie anymore. Even if the Serpents come back next year, with these odds, I’ll never get them all. And I haven’t even mentioned the new top 10 Feast prize pets or the mechanical pets. (Though at least those don’t retire.) I know I told myself to ignore the FD pets, but with 25 new pets rolling out each month (actually 50, cause you need both genders), pretty soon they’ll dominate the menagerie. I’d rather have the couple eternally empty slots in my bestiary. I still love Painties, though, and my villagers are adorable. Looking at the value of the Decorated Snowpets, if I can find the right person, I could trade some of them for a Light Sprite. A fudging Light Sprite!!! Super tempting.

Conclusion: I’m an indecisive piece of shit, but at this point, I think I can safely say I’m at least desperately cutting back on my Furvilla time. It’s time to get reinvested in Flight Rising. I love making Painties and I love my villagers. I might still casually try to get Painties for all of them, or I might sell them. I might start up my Paintie shop again, but for FR currency. Any remaining activity on FV will either 100% be because I’d enjoy it, or for cross-site trading purposes. The big question is: I got full sets of the Snowpets, do I keep them in case I change my mind, or do I try to get more Sprites?