Hey everyone,
I am here to announce that I will be working towards retiring from doing art.
At least NSFW digital art.
Why?
The last drop
Because in the last two months, people have been failing to pay.
Yes, I handle a payment when work is done model. But in 20 years of doing this?
That has never been an issue.
In these last two months, just before the holidays,
people have gone radio silent on me or sending me messages with sob stories on why they can't pay while I'm actually going bankrupt over their spending behavior being beyond their financial ability. Making their poor habits my issue.
Yes, I don't believe the sob stories because at least 7 people are in the hospital and surprisingly 3 of them have exactly the same cancer.
WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
Starting to wonder if you guys are in the same ward, having tea over my worries on how to make it through this month.
Either way, if you can send me pm's with little sad stories? You can navigate to paypal and pay me.
(yes, I know over the years several of you had honest issues with paying and that's fine, but of all these now there's one person with a honest reason I believe.. guess what they are not in the hospital either)
Luxury spending and Ai
About a year ago Ai art generaters became much more widely available and I saw a huge drop in both customers here and basically all my business clients moved to Ai generated imagery.
This meant I lost about 80% of my income.
Combine this with the fact that we all have a lot less spending money,
and besides the fact that this means the customers left comission art way less.
I also feel guilty.
I want you to spend your money on more important things than pornographic art.
I want you to make sure you have all your ducks in a row and don't dig your self into depths everywhere, especially as Trump is coming up and I don't see that going well for normal people.(no matter what his voters believe, we've been here before remember.)
Simply said
Online, digital media, illustrated NSFW art is dying for many reasons...
and it's simply no longer worth the stress and struggle to get commissions, to get things out there, to get customers, to get traffic, to get not payed in the end because 'woopsy daisy I spend the money for this commission but let's just tell them I'm dying and it be alright'.
I'm done, I set out as a teenager to make a living doing art.
I did it and I saw it die.
I saw my own love for drawing absolutely burn up and I am done.
What now?
Well, the next few moths I will be working towards transitioning to other ways of making money.
So if you want anything art wise from me...get it. I am out of here in probably 3 months.
I'm sorry for all the people that do honestly enjoy my art.
And I will try to find motivation somewhere to finish the commissions in my inbox.
But leave me some moments to grieve over basically the loss of this.
Realizing that it's over,
my teenage dream is an embryonic leftover of Voldemort and the train station and I am taking a different train... because I'm done trying to make this work.
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