Evangellos
New Member
Hey there,
I have a very specific question that I've been trying to find an answer to for the past year, but to no avail.
I appreciate all responses, but if anyone can help me with the question or direct me to a place that I can get an answer, I would be much appreciated.
I have a career outside of my freelance digital artwork. I love my career but I also love drawing as well.
While I am still practicing and learning, I hope to eventually sell artwork through commissions someday. However, because of the sensitive nature of my real-life career, I am extremely reluctant to go to the next step specifically because I'm not sure how things [my name] show up on paypal, patreon, or more specifically, taxes.
Does anyone have any information on how this works with art?
Does anyone know how this works or have any insight to these concerns?
tl;dr How does one sell artwork / what do they put on their tax documents or terms of service, or how does one maintain anonymity with furry / anthro art while still having a real-life identity?
If some of this information is a bit sensitive for public viewing or sharing, contacting me through a PM or note on my fur affinity userpage is good too.
I appreciate any responses to this as well as your time and consideration in reading this topic.
Best,
Evangellos
I have a very specific question that I've been trying to find an answer to for the past year, but to no avail.
I appreciate all responses, but if anyone can help me with the question or direct me to a place that I can get an answer, I would be much appreciated.
I have a career outside of my freelance digital artwork. I love my career but I also love drawing as well.
While I am still practicing and learning, I hope to eventually sell artwork through commissions someday. However, because of the sensitive nature of my real-life career, I am extremely reluctant to go to the next step specifically because I'm not sure how things [my name] show up on paypal, patreon, or more specifically, taxes.
Does anyone have any information on how this works with art?
I have tried speaking to a lot of people about this. While I didn't go into specific details related to what kind of art I do or that I like to draw dog dongs and sexy cats XD, a lot of my fellow employees say that doing erotic art is too risky, not politically-correct, and I should stick to doing safe art, but that's boring to me. My family also says that it's too risky although they have loosened up a bit after seeing my improvement with my art. Some people I know suggested that I talk to a lawyer, seek union permission / representation, apply for a business license, join an artist-union, etc.; a lot of hoops to say the least. Others, such as Fluff-Kevlar whom I have messaged in the past, mentioned to not worry about it but that there's always a risk, much with anything.
With that said, I'm sure I could get by just fine doing sfw art like Koul Fardreamer does and work on improving my craft with shading, character design, color theory, etc. but I want to do the sfw stuff along side the nsfw art. I've been doing nsfw art since I was in the 8th grade. I find myself continuously coming back to it.
My career is extremely sensitive, more so than others, because I work very closely with people, especially people young in age.
I've done a good job of maintaining my anonymity online and not going into detail of my art in real-life so far, even my username is no where near my actual real-life name, but I'm worried that if I ever "git gud" and start showing up at conventions that all of my personal info on a wiki page somewhere or on google image search will be exposed, or something.
With that said, I'm sure I could get by just fine doing sfw art like Koul Fardreamer does and work on improving my craft with shading, character design, color theory, etc. but I want to do the sfw stuff along side the nsfw art. I've been doing nsfw art since I was in the 8th grade. I find myself continuously coming back to it.
My career is extremely sensitive, more so than others, because I work very closely with people, especially people young in age.
I've done a good job of maintaining my anonymity online and not going into detail of my art in real-life so far, even my username is no where near my actual real-life name, but I'm worried that if I ever "git gud" and start showing up at conventions that all of my personal info on a wiki page somewhere or on google image search will be exposed, or something.
Does anyone know how this works or have any insight to these concerns?
tl;dr How does one sell artwork / what do they put on their tax documents or terms of service, or how does one maintain anonymity with furry / anthro art while still having a real-life identity?
If some of this information is a bit sensitive for public viewing or sharing, contacting me through a PM or note on my fur affinity userpage is good too.
I appreciate any responses to this as well as your time and consideration in reading this topic.
Best,
Evangellos
