March 24 Update (Patreon)
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Over the past week I've been spending a lot of time thinking about TLS art. If you didn't see the $5 thread you might be missing some context, but I wanted everyone to see the above. The picture for this post is the first one Annikath did where I actually commissioned it and was involved in the drawing process. What do you think?
As for the picture itself, it's not a specific scene from the game, just something I wanted. Lots of games aren't really about characters, just various porn scenarios. So I wanted to have a picture portraying the characters after sex, focusing on personality and comfyness. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. ^-^
Nothing is decided yet and minor details could yet prevent art from going forward. But I figured using this as a test was win-win, because everybody gets a nice picture. Depending on how things go, there may be critical threads about art decisions in the future.
In other news, Street Cultivation hit the trending list and the number of readers exploded. Even with some people giving 0.5 star ratings, it's stayed in the top 50 in the site's quality rankings, once getting as high as 31. It's drawing new attention to the Sarah Lin Patreon and my other work, which is also nice.
Having said that, the ranking doesn't really make me happy. I don't like the pacing of posting chapters every few days and I don't think RoyalRoad is the site for me. This has given me some very valuable knowledge and ensured that I won't ever try to publish my fantasy books in serialized fashion. I think the experiment was good for me to do, but I probably won't be repeating it once this story is done.
Anyway, that's all for now! I'll get back to work and be away for a while, but let me know what you think of the picture.