Each wooden cage was a two foot cube with a chicken-wire floor and plastic rack underneath for feces and urine to maybe run out from. Two small containers were mounted to the front of the cage for food and water. Not that the occupants of the cages wanted food or drink anymore. Two per cage.
From This Old Mill as suggested by @Gardel
The original comment is hidden behind a spoiler.
I chose not to delete it, so that the comment string still makes sense.
But it’s hidden out of sight, i believe that’s an acceptable compromise.
A fitting punishment for fluffies.
Not really what the story is about. Or the mood in trying to capture. Sorry, I’ll try to do better next time.
No worries.
Art is in the eye of the beholder
We wil all do better next time.
Edit : besides if you prefer i can redact my comment.
The artwork is lovely. Its really channeling thr bleakness of late-WW1 painters
Yaiks its like from a horror scene.
Eh, that comment is typical abuse fans drivel, you’ll see the same thing on practically every story that has something bad happen to fluffies. Just like any story where bad things don’t happen will get comments about what the abuse fans would do to the story fluffies.
It isn’t all abuse fans, mind you, but a vocal minority that cannot resist an opportunity to remind everyone the fluffies are awful and deserve to die. As if we’d forget. It’s so tiresome.
I thought your picture was great, lonely and creepy at the same time. Reminded me a bit of the art from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, actually.
Same with hugbox. There was one guy who wrote a rescue story in the comments of “Gerard rescues a foal” and it was clear he didn’t bother reading the story at all 
Chikahiro and myself came to an understanding.
You did, sorry I didn’t respond. You’re fine and I should’ve responded when I saw your offer this morning Personally I took it as “I just need to do a better job.” Given I’m still newly back into art after 20+ years of doing nothing I know I need the practice. Especially for a style I’ve barely touched (I’ve done one other “feel”/horror centric piece), and for one that was meant to be more bleak than anything else.
I’m not familiar with them or that time period (hell, I’m not familiar with artists much). Could you recommend a few that you like?
Hell no, you don’t need to do a better job.
That’s what my second comment was about
“Art is int he eye of the beholder, we will all do better next time.”
As in I the the audience will have to do better next time, and appreciate your art better.
If this is what you can do with barely any practice, then I am sure you wi;l be excellent going forward.
My offer still stands though.
Which I understand, thank you. Its a matter of learning more emotion. There’s a reason I don’t draw humans yet!
Trust me: if there’s anyone that annoyed it was that person who posted a whole hugbox rescue story in the comments of my “Gerard saves a foal.” I mean, like, read the story! Its a good story! 
some users do go overboard with their comments oxo trick is to try to ignore lol
I’m sure you will get there.
I am a hugboxer at heart especially with abused fluffies, but I also feel comments shouldn’t mess with the integrity of the story presented.
If somebody wants a hugbox story they should write a fanfic like in the old booru days.
With asking properly off course.
Yeah.
I do want to apologize. I was more thinking of counter-balancing @anon7816926’s comment as I’ve seen it both ways. I do appreciate the feedback, and hope that folks can take things as they are (much like @infraredturbine and @anon68543914’s excellent Enfeeh Baby series) rather than ideally. Granted, I’m guilty of the same and I need to get over myself too!
No worries.
I like to think that we are all adults here and can work our issues out.
And this is just a learning experience for everybody involved and we will all do better next time.
You, me, Aethelred, everybody.
Edit : i spoilered the original comment, with my reasoning behind it.
I believe that’s an acceptable compromise
Works for me.
We’ll call it good and carry on!
Excellent !
And yes the art is good, it has the stark tone I want to go for but cant pull off
Maybe i should start drawing on black paper in white pencil
For this I just gave up any thoughts of nice, smooth lines. Giving it that rough sketchiness really helped. I had to do it in layers though.
My art isn’t really that smooth.
Its fairly messy ( which helps when i go for abuse ) but i rarely get the starkness I really want.
I want something bleak with extreme contrasts.
Black, white.red.
Nothing more, the less colors the better, to haunt the viewer.
And this one captures that pretty well
I said it before and i’ll say it again : if this is what you can do off the cuff, you wil be excellent when you really put effort in it.
