davidtalaski
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Important and Unfortunate News
🕑 Added 2023-05-06 18:18:41 +0000 UTCSo I want to be transparent with you all about something that's going on, that will greatly affect this Patreon and/or my illustration career.
On Thursday, I received a call from Marvel informing me that although they love my pin-up work, they won't continue to work with me if I'm doing explicit/NSFW art of their characters. This does NOT include SFW pinups, like the ones I sell as prints, but they draw the line at the nudity and overly erotic pieces. I would also have to remove all the explicit art that I've already done of their IP from the Patreon(again, not the SFW stuff which I can still sell as prints), which unfortunately is the majority of the work I've posted on here in the short time this Patreon has been going.
As you can imagine, I'm at a bit of a loss as to what I want to do and how to proceed. Frankly, it sucks and I'm been racking my brain trying to figure out what to do. I also understand that this is a risk I took doing erotic art of an IP I do professional work for, but I thought the fact it was on private Patreon, behind a paywall, it wouldn't be a problem, but I was wrong. I get it, but I don't like it you know.
Even though I think this issue is probably isolated to Marvel, it does concern me about NSFW art of other fanart I do in general and how that could effect my relationship in my illustration career and other publishers.
I haven't made any decisions yet but I'm trying to come up with a plan of what to do next. It may be that I need to do a complete retooling of the Patreon and what I offer on here. Do I continue doing NSFW fanart, but only do SFW for Marvel characters? Do I stop doing NSFW fanart completely and just do SFW Pinup? Only do NSFW of my original stuff?
I want to know what you guys want and if NSFW art is the primary draw to supporting my Patreon or if it's just pin-up in general you care about, regardless of nudity or not. I won't be offended either way, so please be honest. I'm so grateful for your support, and whether you do it for a long time or a short time, for NSFW stuff or not, it's all been greatly appreciated. So thank you, thank you, thank you.
I want to hear from you guys as to what matters to you and why you sub. The poll is multiple choice so select all that apply.***
