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Switching Gears
3 years ago
The plan was to start posting more, gain an audience, take commissions, build up Patreon, the usual freelance artist playbook. My Twitter is dead in the water now though thanks to its changes in recent years, with the gutting of moderation and algorithm throttling implemented in the last couple months being the nail in the coffin. I have no outreach for my NSFW art now, and I don't draw enough anthro stuff for FA to make up for that.
Another door's been been closed, so I have to change up again. In a way I'm glad, because I'm tired of chasing views and likes and all of that noise. I just want to draw and I'm trying to find a way for that to be possible.
For now, everything I draw will go up on Patreon only, except most of the anthro stuff, which I will still post here from time to time. Eventually I'll set up a new gallery where I can release everything, once I find a good option. I made a $2 tier and $5 tier to try and give the most accessibility and benefits I can to people who still want to see what I'm making and offer support to help me keep making it.
I'm also doing this is because I want to make comics and I'm just finally going to switch to doing that. It's long form content that will take a lot of work and time on my part and I don't want to post into the void anymore. I want to know that the people who came to see the final product will be *guaranteed* to see it when I post it, and Patreon will guarantee that, plus I'm giving something directly to the people who are making it possible for me to create it. The last reason I'm doing this is to help me balance my workload. I'm also switching the focus of my SFW art to comics too, and I'll be prioritizing that since I still have some potential outreach there, but drawing so much comics means I can't really produce enough on both sides to post very often. I know that the pool of people who sub to the Patreon to see my hentai comics and a few pinups will be much, much smaller, and I think that will be better in terms of trading quantity of content for quality of content, especially since the people who do sub there would be going out of their way to support the creation of that content. I think it'll be easier for me to keep up with and have a more direct relation with the followers there, so it feels more fair to me. All I can do is give it a try and see how it goes.
Important to reiterate here is that the goal of this is not to make the art exclusive to Patreon forever. I will be continuously looking for good options to set up a free to view gallery somewhere. The caveat is that it just has to have good outreach for nsfw art in order to make up for the time and effort of making content for it and posting there, because that's the only way to start getting enough commissions and supporters to continue doing this. I have some ideas in mind, and I'll keep everyone updated on those efforts.
I'm finally on the last step of setting up new a payment system, and I'm still planning to open commissions once it's set up. However I will be doing a small trial run of commissions with a few people who've been on a waitlist for a while to make sure it works before I start taking commissions from the general public again.
Lastly, not that this is necessarily relevant to FA users, but I will not be posting art on Twitter anymore. I'm not deleting the account though, I will still use it to post updates about things and maybe announcements about commission openings or new posts on Patreon. It's a good idea to still follow me there if you want to stay updated on a more real-time basis because it's easier for me to post there than here, honestly. There's also a lot of art, including TF sequences, that I've posted there that you may not have seen if you only follow me here, so if you're interested it's twitter.com/mad_onyx (@ mad_onyx if the link doesn't work.)
Also, I'm gonna be doing a lot of work for these comics, so on both Twitter and FA I'm limiting DMs/Notes to communication about commissions and Patreon only.
As always, I'm incredibly thankful to all of you who are still supporting me, and still looking forward to seeing my art, even after all this time, and even after all these setbacks. I'm doing everything I can to make this work, and I still think there's hope that I will. }:)
Another door's been been closed, so I have to change up again. In a way I'm glad, because I'm tired of chasing views and likes and all of that noise. I just want to draw and I'm trying to find a way for that to be possible.
For now, everything I draw will go up on Patreon only, except most of the anthro stuff, which I will still post here from time to time. Eventually I'll set up a new gallery where I can release everything, once I find a good option. I made a $2 tier and $5 tier to try and give the most accessibility and benefits I can to people who still want to see what I'm making and offer support to help me keep making it.
I'm also doing this is because I want to make comics and I'm just finally going to switch to doing that. It's long form content that will take a lot of work and time on my part and I don't want to post into the void anymore. I want to know that the people who came to see the final product will be *guaranteed* to see it when I post it, and Patreon will guarantee that, plus I'm giving something directly to the people who are making it possible for me to create it. The last reason I'm doing this is to help me balance my workload. I'm also switching the focus of my SFW art to comics too, and I'll be prioritizing that since I still have some potential outreach there, but drawing so much comics means I can't really produce enough on both sides to post very often. I know that the pool of people who sub to the Patreon to see my hentai comics and a few pinups will be much, much smaller, and I think that will be better in terms of trading quantity of content for quality of content, especially since the people who do sub there would be going out of their way to support the creation of that content. I think it'll be easier for me to keep up with and have a more direct relation with the followers there, so it feels more fair to me. All I can do is give it a try and see how it goes.
Important to reiterate here is that the goal of this is not to make the art exclusive to Patreon forever. I will be continuously looking for good options to set up a free to view gallery somewhere. The caveat is that it just has to have good outreach for nsfw art in order to make up for the time and effort of making content for it and posting there, because that's the only way to start getting enough commissions and supporters to continue doing this. I have some ideas in mind, and I'll keep everyone updated on those efforts.
I'm finally on the last step of setting up new a payment system, and I'm still planning to open commissions once it's set up. However I will be doing a small trial run of commissions with a few people who've been on a waitlist for a while to make sure it works before I start taking commissions from the general public again.
Lastly, not that this is necessarily relevant to FA users, but I will not be posting art on Twitter anymore. I'm not deleting the account though, I will still use it to post updates about things and maybe announcements about commission openings or new posts on Patreon. It's a good idea to still follow me there if you want to stay updated on a more real-time basis because it's easier for me to post there than here, honestly. There's also a lot of art, including TF sequences, that I've posted there that you may not have seen if you only follow me here, so if you're interested it's twitter.com/mad_onyx (@ mad_onyx if the link doesn't work.)
Also, I'm gonna be doing a lot of work for these comics, so on both Twitter and FA I'm limiting DMs/Notes to communication about commissions and Patreon only.
As always, I'm incredibly thankful to all of you who are still supporting me, and still looking forward to seeing my art, even after all this time, and even after all these setbacks. I'm doing everything I can to make this work, and I still think there's hope that I will. }:)
Also it wasn't supposed to be a link but now that you mention it, since it turned into one anyway, I should go and just replace it with an actual link. I didn't know Journals supported that lol
Hope things work out for you.
Thank you though, and I hope it works out for me too...
Thanks so much Xylem, I really do appreciate how much support and encouragement you've given me through this. Thank you for sticking with me, and here's hoping I can make the most of my potential haha.
Thank you for pointing that out so I could fix them!