Patreon Changes (Patreon)

Hey folks, I'm writing this brief text post to announce a change to this patreon page.

The tl;dr version of the change is: Due to persistent leaking of my patreon work, starting in July, fully colored NSFW illustrations will become exclusive to the $10 tier.  The $3 and $5 patrons will get access to the NSFW lineart sets of pictures.

I do understand that this news might bother some people, however, when it comes to my motivation to draw, nothing is more deleterious than having my work get leaked, sometimes the same day that I post it.  By far, leaking is what makes it hard to pick up the pen and start working.  I've spoken about this issue to some of my fellow patreon artist friends, and literally all of them have given me this same advice.  When I look at what's being leaked each time this happens, nearly every single time it only includes pictures accessible to the $3 tier, and when I initially made this patreon I had hoped the low barrier of entry would deter leaking, but now it seems that it's doing the opposite.

I've been spending more time on pieces in order to complete them to a high degree of quality, and I'm not a particularly fast artist, so seeing pictures I've spent over 100 hours on (such as the john mactavish set) leaked the day I post them is incredibly crushing and demoralizing.  It's not something I'm able to "shake off" or be okay with "because leaking is inevitable", I care a lot about my work and making sure it's good quality, and having the stuff I spend the *most* time on be the *easiest* to leak is not something I can live with anymore.

This month (June) will continue with the current rewards setup, but next month (July) the changes will be implemented.