From my experience as an ex-Patreon he initially seemed nice, but over time little actions began to make me feel like he has issues with criticism and values his work higher than most people who might support/ commission him.
There were numerous little hints, but distinct moments made me feel uneasy. First over a year back (maybe even two) he made several remarks indicating he wanted to make a second Patreon and divide his work, and asked for opinions. Needless to say several people (including me) said effectively "like the work, can't afford that change". Afterwards I noticed any comment made by someone who also said no to the content division was often ignored. Most blatant was when an image got 3 comments all effectively saying "good pic", with the middle being from someone who said no to the price change. He thanked the top and bottom post and ignored the middle one. Secondly he went on a 4 month porn hiatus a few months back, while making seemingly neutral comments that still reeked of "if you actually care about me you'll keep paying, if only for occasionally published paint splats and pics of motorcycles". But turns out he just mainly kept drawing porn, just at <50% previous pace. Maybe only 1 in 10 images were non-porn. This melded into a third issue, he does a lot of second-hand soft copy selling of his art. He publishes art on Patreon, but then wipes his Patreon art after 1-2 months, then adds SOME of the Patreon art to an art-book that is sold soft and hard copy, while making comics, videos and art both free and for sale outside of Patreon. So even giving him the highest tier on Patreon will likely leave you missing ~30% of his pay-to-view work, and often you cant get this without buying art-books or comics that have chunks of Patreon art, getting you double-buying art you already got.
Edited at 2020/04/11 22:27:56
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