I have few random people ask me for draws on steam and discord about characters and wanting a picture as reward, I will not be saying names but I will say this to those who had said it Your not the only one who done this before I had MANY wanting this

So here is a little story that I had in the past that made me think about pictures and what it met.

When I found and started doing art on PC I love to make pics, stories and sometimes fanart relate stuff, I never done art-trades or a request because I felt that there are others that want it better, and of course doing art of another was more of gifts and pics for others. This was somewhat bad cause I was burning myself out and felt like I was being someone who just wanted a reward for doing all this, I end up stop doing that phase and want on doing pics for myself and pics as gift for others as long as ask about it first.
Things seem to not seem bad until I had one event that made me realize that I was glad I changed my ways from the very start. I will not be saying names cause it was in the past and I ended up cleaning out my gallery of those pics. This person enjoy my art like moth to a lamb, cause I did him a little request, I didn't think to much of it at the time but then he came with another with stuff I was not well with I had said no to him but he keep it up until I broke and sadly this was endless thing.

I did almost everything to stop it, saying no, having limits on request to not taking request, blocked him, heck at a point I almost reported him but he had lot of friends on his side which sadly I didn't have much what was worse is that he wanted to change my characters and figure out my steam account too so I couldn't play games or anything to get away from this.

This whole thing lasted for around 5 to 6 mouths and I was hardly doing much stuff he did want to do art-trades but he never game it back or do much for it, lucky it was only 2 to 3. It was not a fun time until a friend of my helped me out of this, he been in the same thing and was lucky to had it stopped and put a stop to this guys acts, If not for him things would be a lot different I owe him for that.

In the end I finally got the time to do my own stuff, do gifts for others and made lots of good friends.

What I got though this whole thing was this- You cant get reward from over working yourself to that point or the ask for stuff your get, you just do it for others and to making yourself feel good I never do stuff in hopes