Slut. Giving it away for free.

The low, low price of absolutely free; Satisfaction guaranteed

or your money back

I get some people wanting to make money but no one can complain, free is best.

what is their patreon name?

And we thank you for that~

I appreciate Patreon as a way to support artists additionally if you feel so inclined, but I throw up in my mouth a bit every time I see the phrase "Patreon exclusive" or anything equivalent.

Commissions? Absolutely.
YCH auctions? Eh. . . Sure.
Adopts? Ehhhhhh. . . Sure.
Viewing? That shit be free.

It is a shame you can't see anything that require to donate to see the ones with locks on them, most of them do that.

The thing is that "pay per view" isn't exactly a new concept to F.A. I've seen more than a few artists straight up delete their entire galleries and leave in its place an advertisement and a link to their new "premium" website.

But you know what? All of those post-Patreon artists kinda' sucked.

It's one of the weird rules of artwork: The quality of the art will be in inverse proportion to the artists' opinions of themselves. Chances are everyone here has watched their favorite artist write little nitpick complaints about what they feel they messed up, meanwhile the jackasses doing photo edit comics like the crap in my scraps gallery always seem to be squealing that they should be charging admission.

Now I'm not saying everyone with a premium membership Patreon gallery is like that. . . I'm just warning you: That's the kind of company you're associating with by doing so.

God forbid an artist make a living drawing the art they enjoy making.

Don't put words in my mouth, buddy. My problem is not that an artist make a living. It's how he tries to make a living.

Commissions? Merchandise? YCHs? Adopts? Auctions? Tip jars? All of these, I support.

But charging an admission fee to look at artwork? That's pretentious and greedy.

I don't see it as any different from charging someone to ride the bus or sleep in your house. Their art is their property and every bit of this just stinks of "WAAHH I CAN'T SEE THE ART FOR FREE"

It would be more like charging me to look at the bus route.

Or if, before I decided whether or not I wanted to see a movie on opening day, I had to pay a small fee to view any of the trailers.

Or, to use an actual art example, if you held a YCH auction but charged a small fee to look at the sketch.

Essentially, the art gallery is your ad space -- the place where you showcase your talent. You want to make a living as an artist? More power to you; take commissions, sell print merchandise, include banner ads like the ones you see at the bottom of this very webpage -- whatever. Just don't go all Costco on everyone and start nickle-diming them before they even know what kind of content you provide.

1. Every (sensible) patreon artist has at least a few free pieces, or at least puts up portions of a piece as a preview. That's the trailer/bus route in your analogies.

2. That is a FUCKTON of time and energy to invest in "ads" when you have no clue what kind of sales you're gonna get month-to-month in merch, commissions etc. That's one of the reason patreon and its clones have such a following: they give the creator some semblance of income stability. Look at YouTube ad revenue. Any pro YT'er (and p much any freelance professional) knows there's a lot of fluctuation in revenue because the landscape changes every day. Anything that helps give them a baseline of what to expect is great for them.