Half-dude

Hello everyone,

My name is Half-dude, I'm a cartoonist and artist with a varied history of art under my belt. Many of my beginning drawings were fan-art emulating other peoples styles and slowly forming my own. In the later years I have broken out into drawing more and more detailed drawings as well as drawing more human characters, something I'd never had much interest in the past of drawing. Currently I am very interested in anthropomorphic, both animal and other. I prefer not to follow the crowd when I can, so my current projects involving anthropomorphic vehicles are some of my proudest works. They may seem strange to some people, but I've always enjoyed drawing new things that haven't really been attempted before.

While you're here please check out my series "Violet & Pinky" as well as "Tales from Ernie's Disposal" which are both spin-offs and prequel works in admiration of one of my favorite childhood movies "The Brave Little Toaster" from 1987 by Director Jerry Rees.

Looking further back you can also take a look at my older formative work doing fan art for the 90s cartoon "Invader Zim." Back in the day I was quite popular in the fandom with my characters Owen and Plink, who themselves have quite the comic series of their own. Look for that story under the appropriate folder in my main gallery.

Thanks for taking a look at my art, I hope you enjoy your stay.

Well, I can at least now say I tried it and didn't like it, rather then wondering why I never tried it.

Anyway, at the end of this month I'm going to make a substantial change to my Patreon page. Firstly, as most of my patrons are watching me on this site, I want to thank all of you for deciding to support me, I'm extremely flattered and grateful for what you've given me. Hopefully you'll understand my reasoning here.

Anyway it's pretty simple really, it was actually something I was afraid would be the case. I'm simply not the kind of artist who draws enough to keep up with the demand of having patrons. My schedule is too weird to reliably do art-streams, which by the way I thank my patrons for being okay with me cutting those out. But while I CAN handle the load of drawings I have to do for my patrons.. I'm not really happy though, as all the time drawing pictures for others is the time I would have used drawing my own projects. I'm sure you guys haven't noticed my gallery going stagnant lately OTHER then drawings related to Patreon. Not to mention, in the next week or two I'm changing jobs and will be working days changing from 6 hours a day to 12 hours a day. So if I'm barely keeping up now, I doubt I'll be able to then! Another thing is that with my Patreon workload I haven't been able to work on commissions either which is a problem.

For this reason I think I'm going to do away with my $10 and up perks, any perks that have art streams and monthly/weekly drawings. I'll keep my Patreon going, but keep it at the low-level end where it's more of a tip jar and just a way for you all to show your support/appreciation. As well as access to WIP pictures that I have no problem posting, and maybe even discounted commission prices.

But I'm still happy, I actually managed to get up to $91 dollars a month and that just blows me away, and I know if I were a different kind of artist that drew 24/7 it'd probably work out better. But that money isn't worth it to me if I'm not going to be able to express myself and drawing my own things anymore, I'm sure you guys understand that as fellow artists. <: T

So we'll finish up this week, I'll give ya'll your semi-commission rewards for this month and then we'll do away with it. Again, I appreciate all your support guys. <: ]

Hey everyone,

Today's a big day guys, after a lot of thought, effort, and quite a bit of apprehension I finally finished up my Patreon page, it's now open and ready to accept any generous patronage.

Now as with the launch of any new thing, there may be the odd little issue here and there. I've never used Patreon before obviously so please forgive me if there are any little hitches or problems for the first week or so as I learn what the heck I'm doing. XD Believe me, I don't want to make ANYONE feel ripped off or cheated. So if anything happens in a month with the rewards (that is if I have any patrons by then) don't worry, I'll figure it out and I'll get it to you! As far as art streams, they'll be done through join.me as they've been done already.. I'll post the link around stream time in the patron area... I think that's how it works.

So anyway I just wanted to say some things. First off, I don't want to scare anyone. I'm not going to be pushy with this Patreon like I've seen some people doing, I'm not going to do any teaser porn forcing you to be a patron or any shit like that. By no means am I forcing anyone to pay me to see my work, things will be the same as they've always been. If not better, with the possible increase of art flow if I'm being payed to do it ya know?

I also want to say that payment will be very lax. This isn't going to be a pay per drawing type of deal. If you decide to support me payment will be once a month, and you know me guys.. I never go a whole month without drawing anything. ^^

Getting a little bit more personal here *sits you all down with me.* I wanna thank everyone who watches me, and all the close people I've become friends with here. It was a rough first week here, being the new weird car-fetishest on FA.. having furries even calling me a freak, not fun. Some of my closest friends here were made that first week, supporting me, telling me not to let the get to me. I just want you guys to know I haven't forgotten that and I love you all. Truly, I have more friends here then I do IRL *forever alone*

Things are kinda tough in my life, have been for a while now actually. I'm friggin stuck at this shitty grocery store job with no college education to get me a real career. I'm working with a job coach to get something better but it's taking... awhile. As I explain on my Patreon page, this sort of shit is why I maybe don't draw as often as I could. I keep having this looming feeling like "I should be looking for jobs instead" and stuff like that. That's why this Patreon could be very nice, not only for me but for all of you if you truly enjoy my unique take on cars. If I were making like $100 or more dollars a month from drawing? I wouldn't have to feel like I was wasting my precious life away on a silly hobby. I could feel like I was working a second job, and be proud of it! That extra money, it could go towards my sweet baby Lilly. Who's been having to live with an oil leak and two poorly functioning oxygen sensors bogging her engine down like a cancer, which I haven't been able to put money towards because of my $2000 dollar credit card debt I'm TRYING to pay off.

Eh.. I'm not trying to create a big sob story here, just telling you guys how it is, just something I've never really had the need to do before. I'll keep drawing, fo sho, don't you worry about that. But I just want you guys to know by saying all this that I definitely have worthy things that such monetary support would go towards. It wouldn't just be going into pampering my fat American ass.


So anyway, getting past that cheery topic. If you've got the time, check out my profile page on Patreon will ya? If for anything to see the banner picture I drew exclusively for that page. Look over the rewards and see if any of them seem worth your while. Remember even a dollar a month helps, I know there's over 500 of you guys watching me right now (thank you for that by the way <3) and even if 200 of you just donated a dollar that'd still be $200 extra bucks a month not counting patreon's cut of it that I could put towards Lilly or getting my debts payed off.

Regardless of what you guys do, I still love all of you and am so grateful to have you watching me and commenting on my work and chatting with me, it means the world to me. <3

Here's the link:
www.patreon.com/halfdude?ty=h

Hey everyone.

So I got a note on Deviantart from a girl who claims to be an editor for VICE who wants to do a story on objectophilia. His note goes as follows:

"Hey there, I'm an editor for VICE and I'm working on a story about objectophilia. I came across your art and would really love to talk to you. I can send some of my previous work to demonstrate that I'm not here to "other" you or your interest—just curious to learn more and expand how people understand sexuality. If you're open to that, shoot me an email: ////"

Now this needs to approached carefully, it wouldn't be the first time the media has used us as a quick shock-story for some easy publicity. It sounds like she knows I'm going to be on the lookout for that, so maybe it might be a good idea to ask what makes him know about our bad history with the media. Ultimately I think I want to demand to be anonymous. Maybe getting some sort of scanned signed agreement from her, for my own legal protection in the event she doesn't keep me anonymous.

I'm not familiar with VICE, does anyone know about their reputation or what they do?

Here's my position. You know me guys, you know that I like to think of myself as one of the more braver voices in the OS community, wanting to get our sexuality some exposure. Exposure can ultimately lead to public acceptance, just look at the gays recently. It's us being this fringe no one knows if it's even real, type of status that's really hurting us. I've seen so many talks online about OS and people automatically assume it's trolling! If he wants to feature some of my art.. it might be a nice way to get some recognition on my work.. who knows.

So I have a chance to do my part, like I've already done on the radio a few years back. But I want to be safe and smart about it.

So I guess what I'm asking is, do you have any suggestions about how to be safe with this and weather or not it's worth doing at all. Second, what you'd like me to discuss with her or what topics to cover.

Hey everyone,

So I'm finally getting sick with myself and my lack of motivation to try and get somewhere in life, you ever feel that way?

Anyway so I'm going to try and see if I can start myself a lil' patreon account. First off DON'T worry guys, I'm not going to be like some assholes with patreon accounts who draw pictures only to tease their watchers with censored versions of which they can only see the full version by being a patron or something like that. This is going to be purely a tipping service, a way for you guys to either show your appreciation, and or support my car art and ensure I keep making more of it.

Anyway, the biggest scary thing that's stopped me from making one so far is the whole rewards part. Not that I don't want to give out rewards for my patrons, hell no. But honestly.. it's that I really have no idea what to really offer! It's probably partly my own low self-esteem, but I can barely imagine anyone wanting to give me any money anyway, especially for stuff they can see for free. So it's hard to imagine what I could POSSIBLY offer as incentive. It doesn't help looking at other people's patreons either since well.. nothing THEY offer would really be anything I'd be too thrilled about either.

So I guess I thought the best people to ask would be the people I'm targeting! If you could get any kind of special privileges from me for a small fee, what would you feel was worth the money? I hate feeling like I'm ripping people off.

I've seen people offering admittance to live-streams? Would anyone REALLY want to sit and watch me draw for an hour or so? XD I still don't know how to set up furstream.. gah. Maybe a base reward could be a discount on commission prices? Or something else related to discounts like maybe one free commission every other month or something? Though I could see that getting a bit out of hand if I got a lot of patrons. :T Maybe access to more fail drawings or sketches I don't ever plant to put up cuz I think they suck? Or maybe just the ability to suggest new drawings to me? >> Not that anyone can't already do that.. huff

I'm grasping at straws guys, can ya help out? <: D