The Business of NSFW, Simplified So You Can Focus on Tiddy 😤
Commissions can be daunting, especially if you haven’t refined your process yet. If you feel that’s stopping you from doing freelance illustration work, then read on and see how I handle things. I built my process over seven years of freelancing, so don’t feel like you need to copy it step by step. You need …
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In our very first artist interview, we spoke with EthanPpj on how NSFW artists can use Pixiv effectively, even if you don’t know any Japanese. Ethan is a self-taught NSFW artist, drawing foot fetish content since 2018. Feel free to reach out to him if you have any questions, at Pixiv or Twitter @EthanPpj Beats: …
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Just like any other field, being an NSFW artist has its risks. A prime example was Tumblr’s porn purge, which eventually escalated to all porn visuals being banned. An artist with 100,000 followers was in the same boat as one with 100 followers: “Can I rebuild my following somewhere else? Will my current followers even …
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I was supposed to write an article about scheduling deadlines. My deadline for that was two weeks ago. It’s sitting in my writing folder, unfinished. The further I got from my planned deadline, the more anxious I became. The article didn’t feel ready, but I was stuck on how to improve it. Then this morning, …
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New artists to the NSFW art scene might find it difficult to get NSFW art commission work. Even after you upload your commission info (you have, right?), there seems to be nothing but silence. Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean you’re a worthless artist. Rather, getting that first NSFW art commission is a matter of improving …
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As an artist, your art is the main thing you offer. Does that mean you need good art to have a big following? Someone with that mindset might think ‘it’s not me who’s the problem, it’s that other people don’t appreciate my art’. Think back to the time you saw a good artist but decided …
What does it take to create original characters people love? In June of 2019, after 5 years of drawing, I made my third OC. Megane-chan (or Em-chan) would go on to become my mascot and most popular OC. I had no idea she’d rack up a following, with thirty-plus fanart works to her name. Though …
Beyond the Visuals: Making Original Characters People Will Love Read More »
New artists do well following the advice “just draw more”. However, what’s next? During the first few years of my art career, I thought that more drawing = more improvement. While this does help build your visual library and improve your art overall, it’s not what helped me improve the most. Enter art studies. Any …
Twitter’s auto-cropping can be a pain to work with, especially when it cuts out the goods bits of your artwork. Make your tweets stand out the way you want. Here’s how to beat Twitter’s image cropping when posting your art to Twitter. Aspect Ratio and Cropping Explained How your artwork appears on Twitter depends on …
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