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• First Rog Minotaur is intent on making some of the best images for Fantasy and Furry that Rog can envision. By following what the muse is saying it sometimes creates the best work. Sometimes failures but a lot of time good work.



• Second commissions other than sketch books are right out. That contradicts the muse. Rog did do a commission recently because of dire financial need recently but that is the exception not the rule. The simple reason is it's not Rog's imagination it makes it a lot harder to do an image for someone and make sure that it's right. It's a lot of pressure and it does slow things down.



• Third we ask no matter what you think the current laws to respect this. We ask that you don't put a image, link directly or post a thumbnail of an image on web sites. While there will be exceptions to the rule (like it's your own commission or sketchbook or con badge). We ask that unless you get written permission to use Rog Minotaur's art on your site or post it in places life forums.
  
  Why is that? Each picture is a personal work. They take at least 40+ hours to do them. Most of them run into the 100s of hours. Rog put that much work and really has put a lot of effort. Some may even have deep personal meaning. Rog really wants the picture to live by itself. To be in its own world.
  
  I know this might contradict some people wishes. I know some people might scream fair use. Or even it's advertising. But as members of the community we ask you this. We really wish that you don't and we promise something else to you.



• Rog Minotaur does not plan to do any art sites. I know that hurts our following in the fandom. We could be more popular and bigger but we have our reason. Actually three of the top of my head. One we tell people don't post in forums and other places and then we go do it ourselves. Not exactly the best thing to do and confuses people. The second no control over the site look and feel. The site manager can change, put their own banner and stuff. It's there site they can do anything they want. Ads everything. We just don't want that. And honestly it feels like a competition something we want to just do art for art sake not because it's better than xx or yy



• We really REALLY don't want you to use a picture as your character. If it's not a commission it's really just bad taste. It's not designed for your character. It was not imagined as your character. It might match your imagination but would you like to have written something and everyone says it's ____ character and that is what it is by people's view?



• We told a lot of stuff we don't want other people to do but we have our own things we want to do to the community. We want to provide a "nice" size image with the copy good enough so you can see on your monitor and all that jazz. Yeah i know it's not 300 dpi but hey we like to do this.



• We will not put the (C) statement on the picture covering up the art in a major way. We will try our best to put it on the right in a good place not across the important parts. Someplace that you can still see it but won't stop you from enjoying the image. Some of our older pics we did do not have the (C) in the right place. Sorry about that. I've been slowly reediting them some them restoring the art and redoing the (C) since we don't have a large scan of the art.



• We won't try to cover "those bits" on adult art. We know some of you may enjoy adult art. We aren't here to stop you from that.



• What you do with the art on your computer as long as we don't here is.... Good for you. We know people put the picture and do other stuff. Good for you. As long as you aren't abusing our rights I don't care. I really don't want to hear it. A while back we posted Adult Maid Service door hanger. We had the (C) across the image in that picture and someone actually sent us a big thing about how cool. And including is a (C) taken out and telling us how to print them using the file. I personally couldn't believe that email. Mind you it really slow down posting for a while.



• We will keep updating the web site. We will update the web site when we have time. We will also keep older art there. I think having a past is important. And some people really still love that older style art even though it's not up to what Rog can do now. We want the place to be the one stop place to see all Rog's work past and present. And that it's up here as long as I can keep it someplace.



• We also understand you can't always afford art. Rog Minotaur try to keep things somewhat reasonable on prints and since the average original auction is well under $100. Most people can get an original picture for a reasonable part. We had multiple originals that sold for less than $10.00 in the last year. While that is painful we get sometimes letters from people saying how much they enjoy the picture. You know that makes it all worth it. Knowing that someone loved the picture.



• Last but not least if you like something please send us email direct to rog, on the email list, or sign the guest book. We aren't asking that you buy prints We understand people aren't rich. But it's nice to hear "thanks for the art" or "it's good". We get literally an email a month from a fan. So if you like the art please feel free to email a thank you. It really helps keep things going. Sending critique if not asked is really unwanted. To be honest we really critique Rog's own art before you see it. Rog knows most if not all the flaws in the art. And hearing critiques sometimes can feel mean and well slow down art.

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