Good luck for all your projects, Kitty. Your art is definitely a deserving one...

I'm sure (oh, well, I really hope..) you will not forget about WinC, and sometime you will give to the Community some other "jewels"...

Hope you will get what you deserve, and you will be happy doing your new "job".

P.S. don't forget to post a link to your daz creations... 

Vamp....

Sell your work HERE as well.

You EARNED your title BECAUSE in part of the quality of your work. It's GOOD.

Shit, I can't even put a damn skin together,

You need to do what you gotta do. That's a given. You should also take advantage of what you earned, merited, etc. I think I can speak for a lot of folks when I say you have our full support. Even from around the world, it's possible  for your friends to still 'have your back'.

Kitty....from the heart. you're good people and a wonderful artist. You have a rare talent that will go very far in life. Gonna miss you and I'm kinda hopin' you'll take Po up on the offer to sell your creations here as well as letting us know how to get to the newbies you got cookin'. Links to your creations I mean. Good luck with this love. I think you deserve it. BTW...Do I still give you vertigo? I haven't forgotten that from way back when.

Huggles from me too.

......well, the main reason why i stopped selling skins was because i just couldnt justify the amount of time i put into a skin to recieve 40%

of the profits, i know the site needs support ect, but im also an aussie, so i lose another 10 dollars on top of whatever is left for me to recieve.

and......its not alot. Plus alot of people complain about 5 dollars and well, that does get on my nerves when other places sell things for 30 dollars plus and no one bats an eyelid so to speak.

i do recieve a disability pension from my government as i am unable to work due to my mental illness, but i dont think they would care about the

amount i got from masterskins since its such a little amount.  i think for me its about 100 a fortnight or something and you have to tell them,

but i have never even come close to that amount, so that wasnt my issue.

probably at the time when i said i didnt need the money, i probably didnt, but my circumstances have changed.

and it only takes something so minor like a car registration or a breakdown of a washing machine to alter my circumstances 360.

but that being said, im not trying to play a violin here......im okay.

and to be frank i am still more than happy to sell my skins for free here, i get more pleasure NOW out of doing stuff for others, (i had a major artistic attitude adjustment last december)

as for sk6, it does have issues johnny, you should try creating a new skin in xp, and go to my documents as soon as youve created a new skin and applied it, the whole document window is covered in a blue and yellow image that is tiled over the whole window.

ive told neil about it, nothing is done, okay, i KNOW he is busy ect, but seriously, why cant this stuff just be fixed? it makes it so much more

easier for us skinners. fonts and other stuff ect, the list goes on as karen said.

but i dont want to go into that debate, its seems to be one of those 'to do lists'

id like to see it fixed in the future, it gives a brighter outlook to sk.

i also get tired of bugs on this site too, but thats another issue also, and there is no point going their either.

so now my situation is basically i DO need income, and im just turning to another resorce where i am sure i can generate it, and enjoy it.

but as i said before, i still will be here, helping, skinning, taking requests, (gem wb, fur wb) but only 50%

i hope i havent upset anybody by this.......but its just the way the dark side is taking me, and im following.

xx

I agree with Po, Kitty.  I still think you should charge for your skins.  Even though it's not much, it's still something, and if you didn't spend it, but put whatever you got from your skins in a tea kettle or something, and saved it, you wouldn't have to scramble when the washing machine broke down.  (This is something I'm learning about due to my bankruptcy -- a person needs an emergency fund.  At least a little amount needs to go into the piggy bank once a month before any "fun" items get purchased.)  What's wrong with selling your skins AND selling your Daz characters?

The best of luck to you in making a living from your artwork. It's a shame that a lot of the talented artists in the skinning world aren't making a living. You might want to try making things for Vue as well.

Good for you and much success is wished upon you.

why was the drama necessary? It only serves 1 purpose: stirring up shit.

Good luck kitty, we should catch up real soon

The only time I see your cranky old ass anymore is when someone is stirring up shit. So, please folks, stir it up.

We need more Phoon.

Phoon asked: why was the drama necessary? 

I suspect the drama is a reaction to frustration that results from a perceived non reaction to the problems stated. I suspect your input is a reaction to that.

effort + disappointment = frustration

frustration x time = blame

It's easy to understand this math from an artists viewpoint. 

We all get disappointed at one time or another..eh?

It's what we do about it that really matters... I reckon... .. and rock on!

Yes. This is a MASTER skinner expressing frustration not some journeyman or apprentice. Is there something being missed?

Not something, Hankkepanke... someone very special indeed (at least by me, and I suspect by many others as well)... Vamps. I know you meant that question differently than I responded, but I just wanted Vamps to know how I feel about her as a friend and supremely imaginative and skilled artist.

Also, please allow me the pleasure of welcoming you to WinCustomize. I enjoy your Gallery on dA.  

Thank you kind sir. I guess I am a nobody in all of this really but I do recognize where Vamps frustration comes from I think. There have been changes to WC implemented over time to modernize and improve the site. We get that. But it seems there has been some fixing of things that weren't broken, causing them to break. Some of the suggested fixes to some of these newly created problems seem almost ridiculous, hack this, insert this file here, use this browser, etc.......this stuff creates major frustration when it was working before the improvements. Now I don't understand the skinning process or nitty gritty of it all but I did hear Vamps say something like some of the skinning apps have also been improved to the point of not working? I don't know. 

So many have learned so much from Vampy and all her voluntary effort here that it makes it seem like a personal attack when someone says it's only drama when she feels her only voice left is to retreat to a safer distance. Something was missed. 

Okay I put in way too much for a 2 cent piece here

Have a wonderful week everyone, 

Is this the 3rd or 4th time she's "left"?

here ya go Po... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs 

true.... he's a changed man/Phoon....loads more positive... for quite some time now... quite a turnaround....  

thank you sydneysiders.. at least someone notices