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Stopping fetish art.
🕑 Added 2024-07-08 09:50:32 +0000 UTCHello everybody,
These are bad news that will displease many and I’ve been hesitating to post this. First of all I want to thank all of you who have been supporting me for so long, but after a lot of consideration I’ve decided to stop all type of fetish art on patreon for good and switch my focus to other type of content.
This ain’t like the previous hiatus/paused billings I’ve taken before where I was returning after a month or two. There might be an occasional fetish pic once or twice per year when inspiration kicks in and time allows for it, after all I do have some fetish ideas I’d love to draw at some point! Who knows, I might come back in X years (or earlier out of despair if I’m totally broke and nothing else worked), but the current plan is to stop for good.
I won’t be deleting any art posted here though, but I likely will delete the alts/€8 tier. If you’re still a patron, take this as the opportunity to get the art in here and then switch to the €1 tier for support or the €3 if you still want to see non-fetish content from time to time.
I’m unsure if I’ll release some other type of visual art here. I want to focus on stuff that fulfills me creatively and serves as a refuge every time I need to chill and relax, so mainly Kylian’s adventure, Monster Crowd, the Haunting Story, etc, in writing format...Regarding that last one, part of the prologue will be coming out this month, and I’ll likely pause billing on august so I can focus on personal matters then will unpause when a new chapter is ready.
The reason for me stopping is simple: it just doesn’t make any financial sense to continue, and no matter how much I try to fake it, fetish art really inspires me less and less as the years go by. Relying simply on inspiration to kick in to be motivated for a pic is a recipe for disaster. But again, when inspiration will kick in again, rest assure you'll be among the first ones to know! :)
My numbers have been plummeting no matter what I do for the past year. For every new patron that joins I loose one or two. This doesn’t happen on patreon only but as Xss as well: a complete stagnation in all of my socials no matter what I post. I’ve reached a glass ceiling and I’m no longer growing.
It could be easy to blame it on algorithms, my patreon getting pirated, and so on and so forth, but I’ve been present for so much time in the fandom that the Xss brand is like kryptonite for whatever reasons and people simply avoid me, so that’s on me.
I’ve tried for the past few months to make it work, released art with very favorite characters, including a scenario that was proposed by a patreon, a new personal OC, but I’ve never been able to recreate the success of the “Death+Puss and boots” pic. If I were making approximately €500 a month I’d likely keep going at it for a while, but at €100 for pics that hardly inspire me and take me 40 hours minimum to produce, I barely cover some monthly basic expenses.
So I need to put my energy elsewhere to pay bills: commissions pay more so I’ll stick to that instead and will soon give a try at some YCH, see how that works.
I’m also focusing most of my energy on my IRL portfolio and career to try and get professional and industry gigs before AI art replace us all. I won't lie that professional stuff has clearly been taking me most of my time and that's what I like the most at the moment.
So that’s it. To those of you who have been following this page from the beginning, thank you all again for the support and I hope you’ve enjoyed the fetish ride!
There's still more to come with the stories I have in mind, so if you're staying I hope you'll be enjoying those: it's like embarking on a new adventure, one that I'm more excited about in some way.
I don't want to end on a doom and gloomy note, so I feel like posting this little song that could fit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCTbmFrB4nA
Comments
L. Bear
I think I can understand the situation. And I hope you get success and more with your new content! You're a great artist, and deserve to work in things that inspire you
