Changing the way i post my Art in Patreon

Goldobsidian

I can completely understand. Thank you for your honesty, understanding and time. I love your art and I cant wait to see more of it.I hope this change stops the problem and a new one wont develop in its place.

V-TAL_Fluffy

U wU its ok, haha, im not trying to fight the leaks to stop them, i know is just impossible, my patrons will share my art with friends and if my patrons are ok with that then im ok too. what i dont want is all my art being scraped automatically from my patreon feed haha. I dont gonna track every patron for that, i just want to do what i love the most, and is drawing and creating my art, improving in the process thanks to you all, my supporters. ^^ So yeah, im not stopping drawing for that, not even step backwards, i just want to keep some stuff special for my supporters. All my art will be public eventually but some selected ones for patrons only. Thank you for your words, really helped and thank you for understand ^^

Goldobsidian

Im not saying dont do this, Im just saying I have had experience helping a few artists fight this in the past with their pay comics (before patreon became a thing they made and sold furry porn comics which where scanned and distributed on multiple sites) It is a loosing battle. Once you have been found "Valueable" enough to be worth the effort, no matter how you do it, it will be done. I watched one of my best friends and a good artist stop drawing entirely and succumb to madness at attempting to stop it and being unable to do so. I will still support and follow you, and I will support any decision you come to, but its something you as a popular artist have to get use to. People will use your art for characters on sites like F-list, and people will host paid content on sites that wont give a fuck about your copyrights or claims. The bigger and louder of a deal you make of it, the more attention it will give it, and thus people will seek it out instead of just staying patreons.

V-TAL_Fluffy

im gonna keep the older. I never go backwards. And the new posts in Patreon gonna be sketches, work in progress images, paint process, polls and finished art in medium resolution (sfw). I dont gonna have a "void" in patreon of course haha. The best stuff will be available for my patrons at the begining of the month in a single pack for every tier. of course patrons has to wait til next month everytime but the positive way is that will be all the best stuff at same time, i think that worths the wait ^^. Since i already posted much of the special art of April, the April pack in May will be not so big, but really worths the wait ^

I totally understand and agree with you on this. Patreon has been vulnerable in that regard for awhile now and for whatever reason they refuse to fix it. Do you plan on removing older posts, or are you going to keep them up?

V-TAL_Fluffy

the actual leaking way is automatic, so, is even easier if i dont make this

firandor

Well, it might not reduce art leak muc, if at all. Reason being, if the individual spreading your art is a patron who gets the files properly to begin with, giving them the files in a big, convenient package at the beginning of the month may only serve to make it easier for them.