>>2340537in my honest opinion, i don't think anything you can do will stop people from sharing your art if people want it enough. your idea of one free picture per set sounds really generous, and it might even work if your fans are respectful enough, but the more fans you have the better chance one of them will cave to the pressure and share. i know zamius in particular releases all his pictures for free after a certain amount of time, although in lower quality, and it hasn't prevented him from being one of the most shared artists on here.
i think the problem is with the medium, for this sort of situation. patreon is just a really shit way to do this, in my opinion. it seems to make artists sacrifice quality for quantity, and from what i've seen it tends to lock artists in to the style they started with. when people are paying for what they've seen from you previously, it's hard to experiment with new styles, and that probably doesn't do anything healthy for the artist's skill. i think you'd be better off using some other website to sell your art set by set, maybe with 'season passes' or something that would give fans access to all the art you create in a year(?) for those who want anything you'll draw. that way, people can pay reasonable prices for the art that they want, instead of betting some minimum payment that the art created this month is worth the time to see it.
tl;dr use gumroad or something, fuck patreon
