Slowly Redoing my thumbnails

I know most of you didn't follow me for my artwork, so this might seem a little out of left field; especially considering my previous use of AI, but I wanted to explain where I'm coming from.

My Twitter originally started as a NSFW art account where I was trying to practice and improve. I didn't get very far before rebranding it into an NSFW audio account. I quickly realized that most people were there for my voice work, and once Patreon and commissions became part of my career, audio naturally became my primary focus.

I did continue taking a handful of visual commissions over the years, including photomorphing some vore comics that I also provided audio editing for. Visual work was something I pursued in the background while focusing on my own audios.

Unfortunately, I found visual work extremely time-consuming, hard on my hands, and; at least in my experience, often dramatically underpaid compared to voice work. I also spent a lot of my early years trying to get into games and animations, offering to take on additional behind-the-scenes work in hopes of making myself more useful and getting noticed as a voice actor.

It rarely worked out that way.

There were several times when I was passed over for voice work partly because I was already being paid to do other parts of a project. That was especially frustrating because I had only offered those additional services in the first place because I was trying to make myself more valuable and get my foot in the door.

Eventually, I stopped offering editing and other production work outside of my own projects.

Over time, I became pretty bitter toward visual work. I had lost a lot of my passion for it, despite knowing how useful artwork could be for promoting my audio.

That is where AI became an easy shortcut for me.

I wasn't using it because I didn't respect artists or because I thought visual work was worthless. I was using it because I had become frustrated with something I knew was important for my content but no longer had the time, money, or passion to pursue consistently.

And honestly, I didn't put nearly as much care into those visuals as I should have. They were primarily meant to catch someone's attention long enough for them to click on the audio, the work I actually wanted people to experience.

Recently, though, I've been trying to change that.

I've started drawing again.

Part of that is because I want to prove to myself that I haven't completely lost that part of my creativity. Part of it is wanting to prove to anyone who may have dismissed my visual abilities that I do respect visual art, and that I'm actually pretty damn good at it when I put the time into it.

It just wasn't the thing that made me money or at least, not enough to justify the amount of time and effort it required from me.

I know nobody followed me for my art, and I'm not expecting that to suddenly change. But I want to slowly bring that side of myself back into my work.

My current plan is:

• Slowly redraw my older thumbnails while continuing to make new content.
• For fan-audio content, create new audios around characters that I can also create artwork for.
• Run one poll each month featuring a handful of older favorite characters, with the winning characters inspiring future content.
• Create one new persona image each month, gradually building a library of artwork I can rotate between older and newer content.

This isn't going to be a quick transformation. Reworking years of content while continuing to produce new audios will take months, if not longer.

But I think that's okay.

I want to have more consistent artwork accompanying my content, but more importantly, I want to regain some of the passion I used to have for every part of the creative process.

I've spent years letting my voice do most of the talking.

Maybe it's time I let my art have a little something to say too. 🖤