I think it was actually a bad mouse at work that gave it to me. ![]() It eventually got better though, thank god. I felt like I couldn’t stop drawing otherwise our bank account would go into the red. Over 2019 I actually got RSI in my arm pretty bad for a little while and it freaked me the fuck out. On the weekends I draw, and also in the evenings after work. My wife lost her job so I’m working pretty much the whole time to support us. I still have a full time job I do on the side, NSFW does not sustain me, but it definitely puts food on our plate and petrol in the tank. I started 2019 pretty much only doing commission work, so I went from a year of slaving for free just so people would know who I am, to being commissioned pretty much all the time. I don’t know if I have ever produced that much work before.īut it paid off. So it’s a necessary evil.īy the end of 2018 I had made 770 individual jpgs. I’m not really into social media, but I realise it’s about the only way a lot of you will ever find me. Having this sort of fiscal support meant a lot and I was super excited with the work I got to do.Īnd then TUmblr died, It was a sinking ship and I took my little pile of followers to Twitter with all the other refugees. This one person commissioned me so much and helped me come out of the shadows with what I did. This second commissioner really kicked my NSFW career off I think. That’s the sort of support I need, and she’s there for that. But on the whole she’ll lean over my shoulder and tell me to get gud scrub. I think my biggest regret about this whole thing was not keeping my wife in the loop, it hurt her that I didn’t tell her, and now that she knows she’s super supportive about it, except when I get a commission that involves some pretty wack shit that creeps her out. It’s like my spirit looming over him going “You like touching your dumb dick to this shit?” He told me it kills the magic of hentai when you know the person who drew it, and honestly, I understand that. The only other person that new about it was my best mate, and even then I didn’t particularly show him what I was up to. She was actually pretty cut up that I hadn’t told her what I was up to sooner. I realised by now I had to tell my wife what I was doing, because I wasn’t gonna skive around behind her back trying to fit in art commissions. It was a piece of Desiree giving a blowjob. People actually wanna pay me to do art? That’s unheard of! Then a couple months I got my second commission. I experimented a lot as well trying out different characters and starting to make my own OC’s, the first of which is Mint, a rabbit girl you can find on my website, .Ībout the middle of 2018 I got my first commission and it was such a buzz. One of my first pieces I put on my tumblr My wife knew about this at the time, but eventually I started to get more quiet about the project as it got racier and racier. Just a little rabbit thigh here and there. All bets were off, previously I never did fanart, but now I was just gonna go for it. So I went to tumblr, Of course right? and I set myself some loose goals around followers and that sorta thing. Why joke about NSFW anymore, why not do it and see if my gags were more than just that. It wasn’t mine anymore, I wasn’t drawing it for me, I was drawing it for somebody else.Īt the very beginning of 2018 I made a pact with myself, I said fuck it, I’m gonna try whatever it takes to make it as an artist. I was working with some other people on it, and while the teamwork pushed the project in directions I never would have dreamed of, it also pushed it in directions I was no longer interested in. ![]() I was feeling drained, and I no longer felt like I had control over the project. I’m not someone who’s particularly driven by cash, but at some point you have to decide whether a passion project is worth continuing. I met a lot of cool people doing it too, but it just wasn’t making money. I did two comics a week for about four years straight. I had tried for years to get a webcomic off the ground with middling success. Fear, embarrasment, aversion to money, fame and success. I had always joked about NSFW being the way to go to earn money but I had never done it for the usual reasons. ![]() I’ve been drawing my whole life, mostly comics to entertain people, and also to lure my wife in while I was at uni. Hi I’m Izzy Bsides, I’m a NSFW artist, and this is how I got started! What follows is a direct transcript I used for the video above, so some details may vary! A youtube version of the video is half way down the article.
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