Expect Delays

Dog-Bone, i understand the plight of not wanting people to see content you are being paid to make. But keep this is mind; No great artist became well known by only showing their artwork to a select few at the exclusion of everyone else. The reason why people love artists is because their work is publicly accessible once made. And i dare say that a large portion of your subscriber base contributing close to $500 per month for you intended to pay you that money to make the artwork, not to be the custodian of it, and likely only found out about you, your artwork, and your patreon through such third-party imageboards.

Is he talking about higher res images being leaked? Or are there images he doesn't want leaked that are being leaked? I am not a fan of paywalls. I mean I think it is fine to reward patreons with vids, PSDs, and higher res versions, but I am not a fan of artists who have caches of images that you have to pay to see. I may only be paying $2 because of my limited budget, but I don't intend to support artists in the future who restrict access like how I described. (Again, if I am misreading the situation, than apologies for misguided accusations.)

Tela

I Don't care if your art is leaked to other sites (e621 was how I discovered you btw). I want to support you so you can afford to keep making it and more people get to discover it (which will lead to more patreons). Right now however, I'm paying for nothing with the threat from you that there will be "delays" to further content. If you want to scare away current and future patreons, this is the way to do it.

Yeah $15 with no content is really salty for me

Dave

There is literally nothing you can do to stop this from happening. I recommend focusing on making your loyal supporters happy instead of punishing them all for the actions of your disloyal patrons.

Noxy

One more suggestion: make updates viewable for the public because people will be pissed to see absence of content after they've pledged for you.

Dave

Yeah but why pay 15 bucks a month just to get the same HD stuff for free

Dave

I only know about your art at all due to those leaks on sites like e621. The people that are going to support you are going to support you regardless. In the long run having a bit of your work leak is actually going to earn you more money.

Ted Jones

Wouldn't people still just screenshot the work to re-upload? :(

This is the only sure way of protecting your art is by software:<a href="http://dlsite-viewer.software.informer.com." rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://dlsite-viewer.software.informer.com.</a> You should look it up more because this is from and for a certain manga site (DLSite) and I'm not sure if it's work for anybody else. Although it's going to be annoying as heck to view it on certain software, it's the best way to secure your images since people can't save it down. Hope this help.

Dave

There isn't exactly all too much that could be done, especially with the images sent over as simple PNGs. Ive noticed a lot of patreon artists having the same issue. Hope you find a solution but bare in mind this course of action could turn away some of your larger pledges so be careful. Not got an issue myself and will keep up the pledge but just as Draconis said, some people may not be all too happy. =/

I don't think there is anything that can be done and it might just be killing your patrons because we were just charged for a month of no content... I'm still going to support you but just letting you know that others might not be so forgiving.

Daemarius