/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Started doing lewds because I got sick of fishing for freelance, sending out emails, not hearing back, getting rejected, negotiating prices, getting underpaid, having to do endless revisions, competing with Chinese, Russians and Koreans etc. I literally make the same money with half the effort drawing furries and horse cock futanaris. Do I enjoy it? Not at all, I'm disgusted and embarrassed by it, but it's the lesser of two evils I find. The industry will chew you up and spit you out without giving a single fuck about you. Now I have regular commissioners who lap up whatever I give them, some of whom spend hundreds on comms every single month. It kind of feels like the best way to preserve my sanity even though I'm pretty much morally opposed to it. It means I still get to draw and keep improving. I'm working on an exit strategy though and hopefully will find a way to go independent because this stuff wears on you and tarnishes your soul.