Happy New Year - Thanks and Retrospective (Patreon)

Happy New Year to everybody! I thought about preparing something special, to end the year well, we had some publications today, but nothing better to start the year, than it was the beginning of it all. Now it will be the moment that I will write a giant text, summarizing all the events of the year, so, if you have the courage to read everything, good luck, but if you only stay in the first paragraph, again, a happy new year, that this year better than last year, that we have many new stories.

Also, taking advantage of the post, and I would like to thank all of you, for the work I do, or better saying, what I like to do, all of this is possible thanks to all of you, so thank you very much for continuing to support my work , and that spectacular new stories emerge this year.

Now for the gigantic text.

I thought of several things I could do for this publication, something simple, or something summarized, maybe just a few thanks, but from everything I thought, the most correct, it would be a great summary of my entire trajectory so far, and mine future plans, so this can be a long text.

The beginning was not really that year, but last year, where I made my first publication, I always liked "time stop", and I felt that more and more the new content was "limited", or when something came out new, it always seemed the same, and it started to bother me a lot, so an idea came to me, I thought "Instead of waiting for someone to create something, why don't I create something myself?" And it was supposed to start with that thought, but life is not so beautiful.

On September 8, 2019, I made my first publication on Pixiv (Yes, it was last year, but I must start with it for the story to make more sense).

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/76679454

For me, this story was a work of art, because I only played Koikatsu, I had never created anything using the studio, and that was my first creation, I thought that in just one day, I would have over 100 likes, or something like that, but on the first day, if I had 10 likes, that would be a lot, and it ended up making me very upset at the time, and I ended up giving up using Koikatsu at the time, which can be said that it was at that time that a a certain rivalry with other content creators (But this is only on my side, and a "healthy" rivalry).

With that, stay 2 months without creating anything new, then Ai Shoujo came out, looking at the graph, I thought it was fantastic, and again, I wanted to create something again, but this time something simpler, so I made this publication.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/77888786

Something very simple, but again, for me it was a work of art, and again, few likes, and again I gave up ...

It was then in January, I decided to take 15 days off from my work, where I worked with accounting, and since I had nowhere to travel, and without money, I decided to spend my holidays at home, and then I decided once again make a new publication, this time a video test (GIF), along with a questionnaire, because I thought "Since what I do does not work, I will do what they like". And that was the publication.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/78780838

At the time, I should have only 10 votes, and the characters from games and anime were tied, this was the time that I was at the height of creativity, I had just met Tuckerverse, it was something completely different from what I had seen before, it seemed like my knowledge of "time stop" was just a single country, and Tuckerverse showed me the whole world, and my mind was bursting with creativity.

The protagonist of the first stories was Erika Stone, a woman, who liked to stop time, or freeze women, and play with them, and that gave me an idea, instead of using a male character, I should use a character feminine, and with that, came Neeko, a character who likes women, who can make clones, and powers of metamorphosis, being able to transform into any person, the possibilities were endless, even more if she could stop time.

When I had this idea, I launched the first chapter, there were 45 pages, even without much knowledge of how to create scenes, or even about shadow, light effects, I had almost no knowledge, but even so, I was loving it.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/78816754

The next day, I didn't even look at the likes, I just woke up, and went straight to the studio, creating the next chapter, I stayed up late at night doing this, and another 48 pages came out, on the third day, because I was a little tired, and I needed to do something that day (I don't remember what it was), only 28 pages came out, but after that, my creativity got out of hand, from January 10th, until the 30th, I made publications every day, one coming to 123 pages, and all this I did in one day, waking up at 8 am, and going to sleep at 5 am.

My mind was flying, and it was at this time that I ended up getting addicted to "I must make a new publication every day", meaningless is that correct? But it was a goal that I made, and I couldn't get her out of my mind, until I finished my vacation, and I was still publishing, but then I started my vacation discipline in college, and with that, I ended up running out of time for new publications. , I spent a while without anything new, but in the meantime, I was thinking about new characters that I could put in the story.

I had done stories about Tracer and Sakuya, but they were just stories, but then I decided to put Sakuya in the story, and Tracer too, and to close the team, Gasper in the end (I had no plans to put Shokuhou Misaki in the story, but as she had been successful, then in the future I put her, and it was again at the time that I was reading Tuckerverse, when the characters who knew how to use hypnosis appeared).

Until April, the summary of my stories was Neeko, parallel stories in the Neeko universe, and occasionally something in Ai Shoujo, or GIF, of course, some things from MHA characters, because they were successful (and still are), but I started feeling stuck, it was my first creative block, I knew where the story should go, but how should I get there? I didn't know, so I ended up opening a space for "request", and to my surprise, the first one I did was Zero from Tuckerverse, I was so happy, and I ended up making an idea of ​​the story he gave me.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/80738176

At that time, I had already done my first chapter, which was from Tracer, using dialogues, and this story helped me a little more about it, but then the big problem came, a lot had already happened in the history of Neeko, but without dialogues, nothing had been explained, I know I didn’t need to explain anything, but at the time, I wanted to explain everything, and that ended up stopping me even more for new stories, it can be said that this was when my ideas for Neeko started to be slower.

Remember the rivalry I said, that's when it started, many people must know "Timer", he is very good, I love his work, but a great deal happened at the time, my first release, Dimaria's, it was 2 days after his first release, basically he and I started at the same time, but I gave up, and he continued, so in my mind, something always said "If you hadn't given up, you could have as many likes as he did", I I was new to these publishing things, so some ideas were running wild in my mind, and I started a marathon of GIFs, wanting to show something like "If he does them, I can do them too, and I do several", but that was very childish of me, and also a bit of envy, even though my focus is always on creating things that I like, I am still human, and that started an internal war inside me, I admit that I almost stopped.

Because even though I was trying to create something "creative", it always came out better, and people started to compare what I did with it, it was slowly destroying me, instead of using it as "strength" to improve, I accepted, and I started to feel inferior to him, I did everything possible, and nothing worked, so a new light appeared ...

His name is Tarrot, the writer of the "Doll Collector", because he made the story, but the story was made together, the ideas I gave, he gave priority to putting them, if there was something I didn't like, he it changed, in addition, his genius to create such a story, I always focused on female characters, and on stopping time, and then a male character emerged, along with a story of dolls, and it was at this point that everything started to change .

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/81367357

I was surprised, aside from the stories that I used MHA characters, almost no stories were successful, and so Collector was not a great success, but there was no anime / game character, and he was more successful than most stories that I I had already done it, and it showed me something, that I was focusing on being better than someone, but sometimes, even trying, with a lot of effort, it can never be better, it is like Albert Einstein said, "If a fish is compared to a monkey his ability to climb a tree, he will always feel mediocre ".

I was a fish, and the Timer was the monkey, and it was at that time that I thought I should see what was my strong point, and I discovered, it was my speed of creating (I'm not criticizing the Timer, as I said, I I like his work, but as I was almost always compared to him, it ended up being that way). So I thought of something, that I needed something new, then petrification came up, which incidentally, someone had published a time stop, along with a petrification, so I did my first test, and he went with Medusa.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/81480279

So I am always grateful to Tarrot, because his story gave me new ideas, and new possibilities, after his story, and the story of Medusa, Koikatsu was only used for GIFs, and I started to focus on Ai Shoujo, and me venture into petrifications.

I started to focus on the history of Medusa, and on GIFs, and then one day, I don't remember if it was Tarrot himself, or someone else, but then he said something like "Hey Kiro, why don't you do a Patreon? Can you post the same things you do on Pixiv, you will not lose anything with this, in fact you will just win ". So my journey on Patreon started, when I received my first Patreon, I remember I called my mom, and said I made money on the internet, the problem was she asking "Cool, what did you do?" Even today she says to hire someone from the family, because for them, I work as a comic book editor, which would not be completely wrong, but the problem is the R-18, it is a bit complicated to explain this part, XD.

So my journey started at Patreon, I worked, college started to be online, and my work shift was a little reduced, and being a single shift, giving me more time to focus now on the new Patreon, creating some new videos, trying to create exclusive publications, I thought Patreon would not work, but before I knew it, the month was over, and I had 7 Patrons, I was very happy, and I wanted to create more and more things, and when I was getting excited, Patreon sends me a warning ...

I couldn't take the money, because adult content was not allowed on Patreon, I was scared, because it didn't make sense to me, since I saw many Patreon with adult content, but luckily, everything was solved, the problem was like that. What I published was for everyone, even those who were not Patreon, and adult content is not allowed for "free" content, but for paid content, almost everything is released. (From everything I published, I checked, and it's released, I say that almost everything is released, because I know there are some things that they can't, but so far I haven't found them ...)

Again I had some problems with the cover of Patreon, for having nudism, but soon it was solved again.

At that time I had 3 thousand followers on Pixiv, and Patreon was growing slowly, Pixiv too, and so I thought about organizing, creating new Tier, and then finally the Tier with stories appeared.

But before that, I can say that it was a little weak time at Patreon, what I published, were things I had already done at Pixiv, with nothing very new, and more and more new Patrons, and that ended up making me think "I need to create something for them, but I don't want to disappoint the Pixiv people either, what should I do?" And I was in that limbo, thinking, and creating new stories, but nothing too "complex", there were stories from Medusa, and the Collector, which were the most important, the rest were just "normal" publications, with petrification, or even GIFs.

Then in July, the first "New vote for next week's statue." This would be something to have new stories, since I was out of ideas, because I thought "A vote helped me, and created Neeko, so a new vote will help me", and well, we still have it today.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/39091500

Creating new videos, new GIFs, but no new stories, and I still published in both Patreon and Pixiv at that time.

At that time I already had 60 Patrons, and that was making me very happy, but at the same time, the obligation to do something better and better, and that was making me worried too, because I felt in debt with all of you, and I wanted to create something, but I was new to the petrification universe, and it made me worried about doing something that people might not like, and increasingly asking for ideas for new stories, and then yes, the new Tier finally appeared.

Did I already comment a lot about Zero from Tuckerverse? Well, he showed up again, and I had my first commission, yes, he did it, and with that, I had the idea of ​​opening two spots for Tier Medusa, just two to be a start, but that was thanks his commission, which I saw that people would be willing to pay for my work, and that gave me the confidence to create this Tier.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/39731867

So the first one who accepted this Tier was Carnivore, he wanted to create a story, and I was very happy with him, and I am still very grateful for him, because when I did the Tier, I was worried, and he entering this Tier, me it gave relief, and confidence. because I was new to all this, he made me an incredible script for the story, full of details, helping me a lot with the story, and then something incredible was born, "Crimson Gorgon", which just came out a new chapter, with many pages, since his current Tier is "True Gorgon", of course, in addition, he is a great friend, who occasionally makes commissions.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/39785353

So it was all summed up in creating a vote, a video, GIF, story, and so it was going on, little by little I started organizing Patreon, organizing Discord, at first I didn't know for sure, but then some people started helping me with the Discord, and the one who helps me the most today is "Thegodforce", of course, the others also help, but always when I'm in danger, that's who I talk to.

At that time it was kind of "normal", Patreon was on the move, but nothing totally "incredible", I achieved Patreon's goals, I was creating new Tiers every time, and when everything looked good, I had created the new Tier, people they were enjoying the stories, and now I had reached 100 Patrons, so the problems came.

I always had some problems, but nothing too serious, and then one day at Discord, (This is not the problem yet, just to make the context clearer), they told me about reducing Pixiv content, and making it more "exclusive" on Patreon, and well, I agreed, my mentality was already changing, but I still focused on Pixiv with some publications, and then, one day I saw my Twitter, and something serious had happened.

To summarize the whole story, it was something about the characters' copyrights, and I was constantly trying to solve this problem, and I was completely scared of it, because I was afraid of losing everything, and the person in question was doing everything to bring me down, and me trying to resolve everything peacefully, and then in a moment I really exploded, because the offenses went on to humiliation, and I'm a person who knows how to apologize, but even falling, I bite back, because I hate to be humiliated and I started to fight back, I looked for a friend who is studying law, and I explained the situation to him, and he helped me.

In the end, I agreed with this person about copyright, and asked her to show me the copyright documents, and well, he had none of that, the studio I use, has several models, that different people create, I can create a model now, and someone may have already created the same model, as it is kind of limited, in addition, there are several models that people release for free based on anime characters, and this time, it had happened, after I talked to another friend, and I found out that this person also had a Patreon, and he had less than 30 Patrons, so he had done it all, and it hadn't been his first time doing it, and it ended up well.

I talked to other authors and creators, and they said that everything was fine, only if they were paid models (That there are people who sell models), because there are several Visual Novel created using different characters, and then, it was just a scare, but I started to avoid publishing on Pixiv for that reason, so as not to have people like that, and publishing more exclusives on Patreon.

So Patreon continued, creating polls, "Monday's Request", a new person taking Tier Medusa, other Tier appearing, arranging the benefits, I met incredible people, content creators, and I made good friends during this journey, here it could be the end, but there is more to come, XD.

Then the second war came, this time at 4chan, where they said that my petrifications were "scared", I admit that I was "pissed off", not only because they spoke badly of my creations, but because at that time, I had already done many stories and commissions, it was not just a criticism for me, but for everyone, and I was ready to explode, but some people saw 4chan's publications too, and helped me stay calm, and well, in the end I talked to Zoneze, and he created new petrification textures for me, and I still use them today.

With this whole journey, I learned that what doesn't bring us down, strengthens us, and I was getting stronger and stronger, and again I started the new journey, but before that, I needed to learn something, to ask for help.

I know that I am not the "best HS2 creator", but I consider myself very good, even above average, and I am learning more and more every time, but I am very bad at writing stories, and in the end, I always tried to create something, and I was always "trying", so I learned to ask for help, and many people started to help me create the stories. Like there at the beginning, I need to see my strengths, and my weaknesses, always ask for help, and there are incredible people on Discord today.

Giants of creating stories, more and more new stories, and then I continued to create new stories of them, and keeping my brand on Patreon, which I love, which is "Kiro published more than 10 times in the last week", and these 10 publications, for sure, at least 5 are stories, like the survival games, Naomi, commission, "Request sunday" and the others are the votes I do.

So Patreon currently has a lot of new and exclusive content, more and more new stories, I make commissions, I am training in using Daz 3D (Occasionally), trying to create more complex videos on HS2, always trying to improve the content.

Currently, I quit my accounting job, and focus only on Patreon, I can say that it is my job now, so, sometime next month, I intend to organize myself better, I don't want to reduce publications, in fact I want to create a pattern of publications, because sometimes I feel that I have many stories to create, and sometimes few, so if I create something "constant", it can be good for everyone, both for me and for you.

In addition, a few months ago I created a secondary Patreon, focused on the same thing I do in this one, but this time focusing on 2D digital design, since 3D has some limitations, and we are currently creating amazing drawings, check out the drawings there are 4 artists who do it, but the cover (which was very beautiful) was me who put it together.

https://www.patreon.com/Quartetscary

I would still have many things to tell about the characters, the plans of the stories, some events that happened, but the text is already quite large, so if I have forgotten to comment, I intend to do this in the future, and talking about future, I have some plans for it, so again, happy new year, and if you’ve read this far, if you want to comment on something, even if you don’t want to comment on anything, just say "I read everything", just for me to know how many warriors have made it read up here.

Note: Again, some events I did not say, because the text would end up being twice what it is now, so I hope that some important people for the journey of this Patreon who were not sited, do not be upset, I mentioned 5 or 6 people here, but I would have about 10 more people to quote, because they helped me get here. Again, thanks to all Patrons, I got here, with the help of all of you.