Monthly Archives: November 2021

End of November status update, notice of upcoming Patreon changes.

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Hi again. I am back with one last update for this month – which encompasses a few rather big changes. (Warning, large text post… but it is warranted/necessary.)

Quick general update, November was really messy for me, both for real life and health reasons – and I did not have time to do the latest anniversary mini-set yet. I have been putting forward all the time I could on the monthly mini-set, and even that is not quite where I want it to be. (Again, so much that I want to do, but so little time/energy.)

Bigger picture – and long story semi-short, I am changing how my Patreon page operates, and therefore how I will operate with this project. Things are just not working out even close to well enough right now… nor have they been for a fair while. I have effectively been putting forward a solid part time job worth of hours for around $30 a month for almost two years now… which is just not justifiable. (I think my renders/work have improved in quality greatly in the past year alone – but this seems to have had no effect.) I had hoped things would be better by now… but they aren’t. That being the case, something needs to change.

So… starting next month, December 2021 – there will be no new mini-set every other/even month; people in that Patreon tier can instead choose any existing one they want to receive… you just have to note me with the number. Following that, there will be a new mini-set made in January, and then again in March, etc – all the odd months. And starting with next month, new patrons to the $15 tier will only get either the current mini-set, or one of their choice each month – no other/older mini-sets will be included any more for newer patrons. (I originally gave out a years worth of mini-sets, very early on when individual sets were small and not great – then toned it down to six months, and then three… and now I think one of the sets I have made recently is more than enough on it’s own – given the overall increase in size/quality.)

I changed my old plan for many reasons, but there were two main reasons that I moved it up a month. First, all the holidays I usually do side renders for seem to take place in even numbered months – so this new plan accommodates that far better than if I had done mini-sets in even months, as originally planned. Second, I could really use a break for the holidays, and this will allow that. I have been making new content every single month for seven years; and while I know a lot of the old stuff wasn’t great, it is still a lot of work and very draining – so I am hoping this new system will help offset the immense weariness I feel at this point.

I really also hope this new plan will lead to more time for side/general content, as well as better content… which may finally lead to things getting better for my art – but we will see what happens. I have additional ideas if things are not better by mid-2022 – but… more on that around that time.

As for the $8 tier, I plan to make the bonus mini-set thing that currently exists in cases where I have not made new “main” content a general benefit, that always happens. (Currently they can pick any from my first 50 mini-sets, but I plan to bump that up a bit – maybe the first 65-70 or so.) Not 100% sure what the updated mini-set selection for the $8 tier will be just yet… but I am fairly certain that I will make that one free mini-set per month a thing. (Which is basically already has been, but with a condition that I plan to do away with soon.) The $2 Patreon tier likely will not change, and I may leave the higher, commission tiers as they are as well… not sure yet.

As for my current situation – I could “finish” the latest mini-set today or tomorrow, and just send it out as it will be at that time; but that would mean cutting out an additional two scenes that I want to put in, at the very least – as well as some alternate renders. I have done things like this fairly often, and not always put in all that I wanted to (rarely does much of anything we try to do end up being all that you planned for it to be, lets be honest here) – but in this case, it seems like such a shame to cut it so short like this… especially when I will have extra time in the near future – so I can’t help but think to just not do that. Since I am going ahead with my plan to change my (overall) long standing Patreon system – I think I may as well start by changing this a bit, and waiting another week or so to send out the newest mini-set (aka send it when it is “done”) – rather than cut it off before the end of the month.

To the dozen or so people that might actually care about this, sorry I did not publicly say something more concrete about all these changes sooner, but I literally just decided to move it up a month last night – I had originally planned to start it in 2022 near the start of this month, when I first came up with the overall framework. So… if anyone wants to get this last mini-set batch before I do away with the batches, you have about 24 hours. (Also, about 24 hours left to use my black friday gumroad coupon…) I can only assume anyone who might care would check this main site and might see it in time – it seems unreasonable to update all of my many pages with this when it is so close to the change.

Otherwise, I will be back in a couple days with the revamp of my Patreon page, as well as the new polls. (I also plan to try out a new poll plugin thing, since the one I have been using for years seems so have been abandoned, and is having problems due to no updates in over nine months) As noted above, there will be no new mini-set preview tomorrow – as I am changing my mini-set system to be every other month from now on. I did also post the second preview for the Elf/Orc mini-set from last time, for those interested. We will see what else ends up happening in the coming weeks – as I have so much that I want to do, and I might finally have the time/energy to do some of it.

To end this month, if by some chance anyone else out there would actually like to help support me and/or my work on all sorts of new content; and/or get access to this last batch of mini-sets and/or lots of other rewards too, like the remaining finished story sets, and larger versions of the completed animations I have made/posted, and/or the full games I have also made, (the micro VN and Salune’s Slave Training are still available via my Patreon page; not sure what else may come in the future at this point…) check out my Patreon page!: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already…

2021 Black Friday gumroad sale coupon code!

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Hey. I am back with the gumroad coupon for my yearly black friday sale. (Patrons got it a bit early, as per usual.)

The code this year is: rlablackfriday2021

And that will/should get you 42% off anything in my gumroad shop – so use it while you can! I will disable this code early on December 1st (EST), like last year. (You have about a week.)

This coupon is the highest public discount I have offered for my gumroad page so far – and given the way things have been for a while now in terms of support for my art (not much), I cannot guarantee that there will be another gumroad sale on this level… so if you want to get any/some of my older mini-sets, this is likely the best chance you will ever have.

My gumroad page is of course, here: [https://gumroad.com/redleatherart]. And while there are preview images on there for the mini-sets, I  strongly encourage people to check my master mini-set catalog (here [https://redleatherart.com/wp/?page_id=2758]) to help get more information and proper/full previews for all of my mini-sets. 😀

Of course, I would deeply appreciate any and all support, should anyone choose to buy anything, and as always – the newest mini-sets that are not on my gumroad yet are still available on my Patreon page!

Not much else to report yet, but I wanted to give everyone a week or so to use this coupon.

As per usual… if by some chance anyone else out there would actually like to help support me and/or my work on all sorts of new content; and/or perhaps even get access to the most recent of these mini-sets and/or lots of other rewards too, like the remaining finished story sets, and larger versions of the completed animations I have made/posted, and/or the full games I have also made. (The micro VN and Salune’s Slave Training are still available via my Patreon page; not sure what else may come in the future at this point…) Regardless, check out my Patreon page!: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already…

Status update: 11/12

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Hi. I don’t exactly have much to report on yet, but I wanted to drop in and post an update anyway, since I usually wait another day or two to do so most of the time… and then it turns into another week. Long story short, half the days this week have been a mess weather-wise, (literally up and down 20 degrees twice in a week, which is terrible for my weather migraines) and I haven’t made much progress on other/new renders. I wanted to do more side stuff last week, but I was far too out of it at that point to do much at all, nevermind making anything good – and only midway through this week have I started to sort of recover… and yet I have little motivation left by this point. I have really been pushing myself far too hard on all this for far too long – and nothing has really come of it; so, I am currently planning to change things (again, but far more drastically) in a month or two, since what I am doing now just isn’t working for some reason. (I have made 50-ish image “mini” sets each and every month for a year+ now – that I think are overall quite good, easily my best work; and yet effectively nobody really seems overly interested… so I can’t help but wonder why I am working so hard on all this.)

In terms of other stuff… I did post mini-set 82 (James/Tabitha) onto my gumroad page – and a couple new images onto twitter yesterday. (Still need to do the full pixiv/redbubble update sometime.) We will see what else comes up in the next week or two – but I just don’t know how things will go. I hope to get the mini-set and the anniversary set done in the next two weeks; not sure what else may get worked in, if anything. (I want to finish LITC 6, but I have been so very tired (just in general) for months now, and my motivation is effectively the lowest it has been – so I just can’t write at the moment; that takes so much energy out of me, and I just don’t have much left as a base these days.) I will be back next week with some other update, and some other time soon-ish with my yearly black friday gumroad coupon… for those that may be interested in that. Otherwise, more votes in the polls would be great, as would comments, follows, etc…

As per usual… if by some chance anyone else out there would actually like to help support me and/or my work on all sorts of new content; and/or perhaps even get access to the most recent of these mini-sets and/or lots of other rewards too, like the remaining finished story sets, and larger versions of the completed animations I have made/posted, and/or the full games I have also made. (The micro VN and Salune’s Slave Training are still available via my Patreon page; not sure what else may come in the future at this point…) Regardless, check out my Patreon page!: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already…

November polls are up.

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Hey again everyone. Apologies for the few days in between this and the last post, but I have been recovering after all the crap that I had to do in the last week of October. (There have also been a few minor issues to fix – both in real life and digital… like the autoSSL on this page crapping out for a few hours.) I still hope to squeeze in another side render or two soon – but we will see how things go. For now, I have returned with the new polls – and the results from last time.

Last time there were two polls – one asked how long you have been following me – and it seems split between very long time fans and some very new ones, which is nice. It is always really nice to see long time followers, as well as some very new ones – and thanks again to all who voted, and who follow me/my work. 🙂 The other poll asked if you prefer females to be active or passive – and passive one by one vote, which doesn’t surprise me too much… that tends to be what happens most of the time.

As for the new polls this time, there are two again; and first is a repeat of an old poll that asks what your gender is – just to get an idea of who likes my work and/or checks this site. The second is effectively a new poll, (there was a similar one years back but it was game specific) asking how you feel about impregnation/pregnancy in adult content. So do please vote in those when you see them, and let me know about those – and we will see what else comes up by the time I post another update in a week or so. There is a lot I hope to get done – but who knows what will actually happen. Black friday is also later this month, and I usually do a gumroad sale of some sort for that – so definitely check back for that a bit later… but then again, I may mix things up this time and do something sooner, who knows.

So… if by some chance anyone else out there would actually like to help support me and/or my work on all sorts of new content; and/or perhaps even get access to the most recent of these mini-sets and/or lots of other rewards too, like the remaining finished story sets, and larger versions of the completed animations I have made/posted, and/or the full games I have also made. (The micro VN and Salune’s Slave Training are still available via my Patreon page; not sure what else may come in the future at this point…) Regardless, check out my updated Patreon page!: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already…