Selling Your Art As NFT

 

Unlike some people my art is very important to me, so important that I keep it close to my heart at all times. I would never do anything with my art that I wouldn't want someone else to do with it. My characters are so valuable I am very overprotective of them. However someone recently saw some of my non-pornographic content over on Artstation and has offered to pay a large sum of money to own them as NFT assets. He chose my best art from Shadow Hill, and Raizen Fury...Since I didn't know what NFT meant I decided to look deep into that and come to find out that if I sold the work to him...

He will have full ownership over the artwork and it will no longer belong to me anymore...That means he can do whatever he wants with it...As much as I need the money it would be very difficult for me to part with my artwork permanently for any amount of money. If I sold the work I would regret not being able to use that particular image anymore. And he selected some of my best images.

There are some images I could give up but not the ones he chose. One thing about me is that people do take my art seriously. That's why I don't follow stupid shitty trends. If I can't excel without following mainstream ideas then I just don't deserve to be an artist.You would never see me going around promoting some cringe nonsense for cheap attraction. I excel well as an artist without imitating the mainstream.

All of my inspirations are from real artist from the Renaissance and Victorian era when Europeans were smart, creative, and constructive with their artistic ideas. This would also include artist of the early 80s and 90s or anything that provided me with an idea from the 1970s. Those artist is why I appreciate art so much today. Japan had some of the best anime in the 80s and 90s, so if you see something like Demon City or Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust. You're going to think of Dark Erotic content you could be doing to reflect how cool the setting was in those films.

When I first saw Demon And Wicked City I said "wow, I love this setting!" Old school anime from Japan depicts the world in such a better light than anything modern coming out of that country today since they've been hijacked by Western interest.

 After I had watched Demon City and Wicked City multiple times I started thinking about stuff with Sadako and Kayako with all the other legendary Japanese horror characters, and that's how I came up with the series Yurei Yokai. I then realize that I'm creating cooler than hell art with these characters that even the Japanese haven't thought up before with them. I'm possibly one of the only artist that use Sadako the way she should be used more often. I've seen this character in so many explicit situations, but rarely do I see her depicted in art as an actual horror character. She's either getting raped through the television screen or behaving passively. The character is a goddamn joke in the nsfw community.

As time moved forward it was now or never so I needed to grow and mature as a figure in the art world that people could take seriously both within the explicit community and outside of it.

When people praise my content, it's respect given that I earned and that's what being an artist is really about. A lot of artist today don't express themselves truthfully enough. There is a lot of doubt so they just take some trendy content they saw someone else doing, create it and call it art which isn't original in the slightest.  People with cling on to mainstream media and rely on it...It's a sad state of affairs.

Eugene Delocroix was an artist that gave art life and meaning.. He told stories through his work. A real artist the people of France could actually look up to, be proud of and not ashamed of. He was the first European artist that convince me to become an artist myself.  There's a reason why I don't just strictly create explicit content like a lot of artist either. That's because I know that there are many benefits to having some clean artwork or even regular nudity with no sex involved at all in my portfolio. 

Before I even became an artist I use to see all these different wonderful  paintings from long ago that gave me a reason to invest in those safer ideas that could be used on various platforms without any complaints. One day a friend of mine had come to me, and he needed some help with a portfolio to use for references in a job interview. He was an artist himself but because he was only good at producing explicit pinup artwork, he wanted me to help due to how creative my content is compared to his own. So I helped him by producing several sfw images he could use in his portfolio that I would never use for anything myself.

The thing about these images I create that are safe to use anywhere is that I can post these images on regular art sites to get discovered where they don't really allow explicit content besides nudity and watch as my content is admired by those who are impressed with original ideas that no one else have but me. That same reflection applies to my explicit content as well outside of these platforms. Artstation is where you can easily find yourself discovered by those who either want to collaborate with you, hire you for their studio (a lot of game developers and film makers use Art station) or purchase your content.

This also wouldn't be the first time someone has come to me and offered money to purchase content from me that wasn't in the form of a commission. If something is a commission and I sold it to them. Then it's different, I wouldn't mind parting ways with it since it's their idea..But buying something I created that came from my own thought process, something I really loved...It would be impossible for me to give it up. 

When I was approached about my images and the guy chose the image of Alyssa on the bike trying to escape Agnes in a pickup truck chasing her down a secluded road and the image of Evelyn, Xenia, and Shirley fleeing from the police. He also chose the one character sheet I did of Rosaria Wolf. I said to myself "noway I'm giving these up! Not for $2000, not even for $40,000!" You can call me crazy if you want. 

People pay a considerable amount of money for NFT art or so I have read. The guy interested in my work even told me that he would pay double for them. I use to believe that because I was creating art with Daz studio, I would never be all that important. I use to carry that belief that to be considered a real artist at all, you had to create everything from the ground up from scratch! Iike creating a motorcycle in Blender piece by piece, making clothes, and just rigging everything yourself.

 If I want a cool motorcycle I just go and buy one, or commission someone to build me one. I once met an artist who created all of his own props, and I had him build every single video game console for me in Daz Studio. The downside is that he didn't name them correctly, he gave them all fictional names close to their actual names. 

I know he did it for CR reasons but I don't think that was even necessary since Turbosquid sells lots of license brand named content for the twice the amount vendors sell daz content.  Another thing is that I build all my own environments from various parts of other environments. I create all my own characters but I cant take credit for the hair, or the clothes they wear unless I came up with the idea, gave it to someone else to produce for me and even then they still did all the hard work creating the hair visually for me to use even if I gave them the idea for it.

...But unlike the AI "artist" it requires some actual effort to make something in DAZ, and then perfect the lighting...There is no effort with that AI stuff where people are just quickly generating images and allowing the program to do all the work to achieve the results they want...It seems so damn boring to me using AI, and people are already tired as hell with it since all of it looks exactly the same. If you go to Pixiv, there are thousands of AI images there now and 99% of it is the same shit! Various variations of generic pinups.

That's why it fails to impress anyone on platforms like Deviant Art...Doesn't matter how interesting the image looks, if it's created with AI...Nobody really cares. So you see all these AI images on Deviant Art with zero likes even if it's something that actually looks kind of cool and unique. It's AI and it won't grab the audience. Some of my non-explicit work use to fail a lot on Deviant Art back in 2016 so I had to take risk, it was always my explicit artwork that got all the attention, the same art that got me permanently banned from there either way they were being biased and full of it. There are artist still there posting explicit content and they've had an account longer than I did on DA.

Either way no one else can just easily copy your lighting style in Daz, there are some artist who use DAZ to where the art looks extremely different from my own in terms of how they lit up their scene. People can still tell that you most likely used Daz studio and assets for it to create the art but the point is everyone using DAZ has a different artstyle and look with their renders. Regardless using Daz to create something out of nothing doesn't reduce it's quality or value.

Money is important, but not important enough for me to give up artwork I would regret giving away to someone else to own and losing ownership over it. It would be even worse if they obtained ownership over the characters as well and I could never use them again due to copy right reasons if he paid for the rights to those characters...

That would be even more heart breaking because they would belong to him...I can't even begin to imagine not being able to use these characters ever again. The truth is, they can't be bought...It would be impossible replacing them...How can I replace someone like Evelyn? She is Raizen Fury and Shadow Hill without Alyssa Wolf is like the band Warlock without Doro Pesch and you can't have Warlock if Doro isn't there, the woman have the voice of a warrior when she's performing. I challenge any female vocalist today to try to out Rock her. You won't!

The Renaissance and religious art was a big inspiration on this image. This is the kind of art that truly benefits my portfolio by a long shot. I always considered relying on art like this if my other career didn't work out.

Unfortunately this image wasn't intended to be Christian Art. Emma is Scottish, and so is her family. Therefore it's a reflection of Scottish heritage. Only Emma is sort of dressed like the Virgin Mary. Because she's very protective of her virginity and the virginity of other women and young girls in general. It's just too bad that Scotland is part of the UK...Most nations are losing their sovereignty and it's just too damn depressing to think about.