Sure thing - I just saw this post being shared around on twitter, and found the AMA community yesterday, so I thought they ought to go together. 

Yea, I'm not kidding about the graphic novels. 

Technically, after I finish this project I'll be able to say "My last project was a graphic novel" -- cause they are officially 64-100 pages for the small ones. 

Last two years have been mostly comic strips and 3 medium size comics. 

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I haven't gone to school for it. 

I actually studied psychology of religion in school. 

Most of my love for painting was like abstract expressionism during my 20s, and also Sexy, Painterly Indie Comics. 

And my friend said once "what is it" to this expressionist piece i was really proud of, and I realized -- I need to paint naked women instead. 

So, I started trying to just paint and draw a lot of women, cause that was another earlier passion of mine. 

As far as art education: 

These are really good resources that have helped me out a lot: 

https://artcamp.com/

https://oatleyacademy.com/mb-hub/

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I decided I wanted to be an erotic artist like 5 years ago? and So I was painting and posting things on hentai foundry: 

![Pump and HODL.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/rootdraws/kT4j6ZSO-Pump20and20HODL.png)

I did a few really nice commissions for people, and got some money, but mostly for the first 3 years or so, it was like not that lucrative. 

I made a living ghostwriting novels during that time, and then just painting, or got underpaid to do nsfw art during that time. 

Last two years I've been mostly an amateur posturing as a professional comics artist. 

The only reason I was able to remains salient was because of doing small projects regularly on Kickstarter -- basically a kind of furious pace, similar to the ghostwriting work I used to do. 

During that time, I had given myself an increased level of financial security with multiple sources of income: 
- Kickstarter
- Patreon
- Commission work.

So, the last 2 years has been sort of an experimental process -- like: 
- How do I make this more efficient? 
- How do I make this more profitable? 
- How do I build an audience? 
- How do I make better quality work? 
- OMG, what is a cryptocurrency? 

Now, my focus is on 64-100 page public domain derived, erotic graphic novels. 

I also sync my work on multiple platforms, so HIVE | Patreon | Kickstarter | ETH NFTs. 

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I just stumbled into a heavy investment into HIVE right before the price shot up, so now this whole little financial ecosystem I'm creating for myself has gotten significantly more resilient. 

As far as interesting things coming up in the future for me: 

It's mostly about minimalism, financially, so I can maximize the freedom and resources to stabilize my work. 

I'm also going to be experimenting in applying crowdfunding techniques used in Kickstarter / Patreon / USD into Ethereum.

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HIVE is interesting, cause it's content and curation that provides the value. I will probably make print copies of graphic novels and PDFs available for sale with HIVE - but the more robust and experimental crowdfunding work will be with ethereum. 

I'll be recording everything to share with people in blog format. 

Cheers.