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New Subscribestar Adult!
2 years ago
Hello, I’ve not made a new journal in ages, but I’ve got some important news to share~
I’ve made a Subscribestar Adult!
https://subscribestar.adult/shibara
I’ve thought about it for a long while, and finally decided to go ahead with it!
Tier perks include access to a sketch stash with lots of never published wips and doodles, HD art collections with more than 8 years of work, downloads for layered psd and csp files for past and future work, early access when commissions open and free monthly art raffles.
This will of course include sfw artwork as well, but I chose to make it a Subscribe Adult page because nsfw themes are what I most often work with, and what most of my personal artistic explorations entail.
How does this affect commissions?
It will change the way I take payments and organize slots, but not much else.
Basically, I’m hoping to finally ditch Paypal, and start taking commissions through Subscribestar directly.
I'll be setting up a tier or two with 2 or so slots for fixed-price commissions, which commissioners can later upgrade via tips (for example, a tier called “Painted Commissions” set at 250$ that includes an illustration for a full character with a background. If a subscriber wants to make it a two-character pic, the extra fee can be sent via a single-time tips).
I'm still deciding on what the best communication rout will be for this (form, mail, etc), so I won't be opening until mid-to-late May.
EDIT: Tipping is enabled now, so I can take payments with no need for subscriptions now via tips directly.
Why sell commissions this way?
Due to recent legislation in my country, using Paypal has become increasingly disadvantageous in the past few years (you have to automatically convert all payments to the local coin at a horrendous exchange rate, same as most other available services for easy money transfer and virtual wallets).
Also, because of how virtual wallet services work, I’ve not been able to offer clients any kind of installment plans for ages, which sucks.
The way Subscribestar works though, would allow me to receive transfers directly to my bank account, hopping over most of those issues, while at the same time allowing for fractionated payments for those clients who may need them.
Also, I fucking hate that Paypal has such a beef against the adult industry.
I love working on nsfw pieces for me and for others, and having in the back of my mind the knowledge that Paypal could shut down my account in a heartbeat if they realized I work with adult material, has been a constant source of irritation for more than a decade.
I unashamedly love what I do and I intend to continue doing so!
In conclusion:
My intentions regarding my artwork is to keep things mostly the same.
Commissions are still my priority, and will continue to be so, but some fixed monthly support would definitely be super helpful, allowing me to explore new techniques and ideas a tad more freely, while still giving back something to you all for your support.
If things go well and when things have settled down a bit, I intend to create a discord server where I can communicate more conveniently and stream the art making process, start using polls where subscribers can vote directly for what themes they’d like me to work with in my non-commissioned art.
It’s all extremely exciting, I can’t wait to start~ :D
I’ve made a Subscribestar Adult!
https://subscribestar.adult/shibara
I’ve thought about it for a long while, and finally decided to go ahead with it!
Tier perks include access to a sketch stash with lots of never published wips and doodles, HD art collections with more than 8 years of work, downloads for layered psd and csp files for past and future work, early access when commissions open and free monthly art raffles.
This will of course include sfw artwork as well, but I chose to make it a Subscribe Adult page because nsfw themes are what I most often work with, and what most of my personal artistic explorations entail.
How does this affect commissions?
It will change the way I take payments and organize slots, but not much else.
Basically, I’m hoping to finally ditch Paypal, and start taking commissions through Subscribestar directly.
I'm still deciding on what the best communication rout will be for this (form, mail, etc), so I won't be opening until mid-to-late May.
EDIT: Tipping is enabled now, so I can take payments with no need for subscriptions now via tips directly.
Why sell commissions this way?
Due to recent legislation in my country, using Paypal has become increasingly disadvantageous in the past few years (you have to automatically convert all payments to the local coin at a horrendous exchange rate, same as most other available services for easy money transfer and virtual wallets).
Also, because of how virtual wallet services work, I’ve not been able to offer clients any kind of installment plans for ages, which sucks.
The way Subscribestar works though, would allow me to receive transfers directly to my bank account, hopping over most of those issues, while at the same time allowing for fractionated payments for those clients who may need them.
Also, I fucking hate that Paypal has such a beef against the adult industry.
I love working on nsfw pieces for me and for others, and having in the back of my mind the knowledge that Paypal could shut down my account in a heartbeat if they realized I work with adult material, has been a constant source of irritation for more than a decade.
I unashamedly love what I do and I intend to continue doing so!
In conclusion:
My intentions regarding my artwork is to keep things mostly the same.
Commissions are still my priority, and will continue to be so, but some fixed monthly support would definitely be super helpful, allowing me to explore new techniques and ideas a tad more freely, while still giving back something to you all for your support.
If things go well and when things have settled down a bit, I intend to create a discord server where I can communicate more conveniently and stream the art making process, start using polls where subscribers can vote directly for what themes they’d like me to work with in my non-commissioned art.
It’s all extremely exciting, I can’t wait to start~ :D