Photo Manips vs Drawing
Greetings minions of depravity, the Anax comes to you with a topic that gained my interest. I was talking to a friend on this site, and they really enjoyed my interactive novel, Slugs and Bugs, and we have chatted about it. Right now I have a succubus novel, vampire one, a robotization one, one where you can be changed into a horny bimbo clown, you get the idea, probably most of you have seen my hard work. Yet, I nary have any financial support on Patreon. This has perplexed me.
My first novel has won awards and contests, the one last October on Hypnopics-Collective.net for example, been featured on websites like Hall of Corruption,s, and the feedback has been enormous with virtually everything being positive. Thus, I had hoped I could make interactive erotic mind control into a business that I could do the rest of my life since it is my reason for being! However, I have but a handful of support on Patreon. My friend said "Well, idk why the pateron isn't paying off. All I can imagine is people who create things from nothing get more because the possibilities are more. When you just manip pics and stuff I don't think people flock easily due to the easiness of it."
I was taken aback a moment! I would argue that pictures manipulated like I do takes way more work. I am an artist that can draw and paint and even sculpt, for I went to college years for my art degree, and to draw a picture in good detail and color it takes me about half an hour.
With my interactive novels, a picture like say the one with Kate and Justine together in the slime room took about 3 hours to generate. You can see it here:
hallofcorruption.wordpres...ky-slimy-transformations/
First, it took me WEEKS to obtain photos of the women I wanted to use. Then I had to sort through those and find ones that would fit the scenes I wrote. Then to do that scene, I had to search thousands of pics of rooms online. The slime in that room I made myself and recolor ed the background. Then I had to slice Justine and the lady that plays Kate out of their own separate photos and bring them into that slime photo.
Then it takes another hour to turn them sickly green and make them look wet with bubbles and goo on them. So that one scene took about 3 hours (of course as you all know it also had music and writing as well which adds even more time to the total for that one scene). If I had drawn that scene it would have taken a fraction of the time, so I can't see that being the reason is so much more work goes into a manipulation than the majority of things I see posted here.
So, what are your thoughts? I know a "manip" could be as easy as just making eyes look white, or that a guy can draw a stick figure hypnotizing another stick figure and post it here, but that kind of nonsense aside, someone truly creating art, do you think manips are somehow easier? Do you think that is why I have not had much support yet my game has been played or downloaded over 100k times? I am curious to what the community thinks!
My first novel has won awards and contests, the one last October on Hypnopics-Collective.net for example, been featured on websites like Hall of Corruption,s, and the feedback has been enormous with virtually everything being positive. Thus, I had hoped I could make interactive erotic mind control into a business that I could do the rest of my life since it is my reason for being! However, I have but a handful of support on Patreon. My friend said "Well, idk why the pateron isn't paying off. All I can imagine is people who create things from nothing get more because the possibilities are more. When you just manip pics and stuff I don't think people flock easily due to the easiness of it."
I was taken aback a moment! I would argue that pictures manipulated like I do takes way more work. I am an artist that can draw and paint and even sculpt, for I went to college years for my art degree, and to draw a picture in good detail and color it takes me about half an hour.
With my interactive novels, a picture like say the one with Kate and Justine together in the slime room took about 3 hours to generate. You can see it here:
hallofcorruption.wordpres...ky-slimy-transformations/
First, it took me WEEKS to obtain photos of the women I wanted to use. Then I had to sort through those and find ones that would fit the scenes I wrote. Then to do that scene, I had to search thousands of pics of rooms online. The slime in that room I made myself and recolor ed the background. Then I had to slice Justine and the lady that plays Kate out of their own separate photos and bring them into that slime photo.
Then it takes another hour to turn them sickly green and make them look wet with bubbles and goo on them. So that one scene took about 3 hours (of course as you all know it also had music and writing as well which adds even more time to the total for that one scene). If I had drawn that scene it would have taken a fraction of the time, so I can't see that being the reason is so much more work goes into a manipulation than the majority of things I see posted here.
So, what are your thoughts? I know a "manip" could be as easy as just making eyes look white, or that a guy can draw a stick figure hypnotizing another stick figure and post it here, but that kind of nonsense aside, someone truly creating art, do you think manips are somehow easier? Do you think that is why I have not had much support yet my game has been played or downloaded over 100k times? I am curious to what the community thinks!