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UPDATE: Small Changes To My Patreon!
🕑 Added 2017-12-21 04:04:50 +0000 UTC
Hey fellow patrons! Don't wanna scare you or anything with this random update; still working on the arts but I wanted to intersect with a small update as to how I'm going to alter my Patreon forward going into the new year:
I've been thinking about my process for producing and delivering content. I feel for the past few months since I started, the polling and suggestion feedback has been doing pretty well. I do want to keep that aspect of my Patreon going. However, there's just something about the resulting "production" I don't really dig and can't quite put my finger on.
So I comprised a few changes that will roll into effect beginning in January. They are as follows:
More Sketch Content
I received a lot of exit feedback since I started and I noticed how most of it amounted to being "not engaging as expected", despite me doing my best to stick to the 4 finished illustration per month quota I listed (slowdowns/sickness/hiatus notwithstanding) and attempted to even do more.
With that said I would like to do a daily sketch every weekday (5 days) out of the week. More sketches throughout the week if I'm feeling good is extra credit. So, if you're on the $1 content, then yay, that means more sketches and scribbles for you! 🎉👯
More Patron Feedback
To piggy-back off of the more sketches a week change, I want to involve you guys a bit more. So it's going to be up to the patrons to pick the illustration to be finished from the daily sketches posted throughout the week. This will be a normal vote/poll as usual, and will go out on Friday and will end at that day. The illustration will then be completed during the weekend. There are typically 4 weeks per month, so that will still hit my personal quota while at the same time providing you all with more content overall.
I can't really do this without you guys, and since you're essentially keeping this train going, you guys should be a bit more involved in that aspect. I still get the minimum control of drawing things I want/like to, and you all have way more leeway to see the content you want produced. How 'bout dat? 😄
Streaming Changes
I know I haven't been on top of streaming at all. The stars never aligned for me to properly get consistent with that these past couple of months. So heads up: that polled finished illustration will be streamed every weekend live at announced times on either Saturday or Sunday, or both if the illo is complex.
In addition, I'm completely scrapping the $10 Stream Tier pledge. Everyone that wanted to jump in and watch the streams would just have to be subscribed at the $3 All-Access Tier pledge level from here on out. I'll have to make it up to those who specifically pledged to that tier with something extra.
The streams will remain closed to the public! There's no change at all to how I'm going with them, just easier for more people to get into, and the structure will be a lot more easier for me to manage. No one wants to watch a stream with only 10 people in it. That's no fun.
Other Additional Changes
- The rewards for the PSD Tier and Video Tier will be bound to the chosen finished illustration of the week. Every other type of content (sketches) won't have process videos (unless I choose to do the doodles on my iPad where I can easily time lapse them) or PSDs.
- Content is gonna remain the same for the most part (girls, girls on girls, girls again), and some girl action with dudes 'n dicks every once in a while. I know I likely spooked everyone with that survey from a week or so ago, but I'm just going to keep at it with what I'm personally comfortable with for the time being.
- I'm dropping the number of special Request Tiers from 4 per month to 1 per month. A lot easier for me to handle. I'm also closed for commissions elsewhere for a long while so that will be the only way to get a special request in.
...Other than that, that's about it. Again, you'll begin to see these changes gradually, but they won't be fully into effect until January. I really want to get this Patreon really poppin', and also hit that remaining tutorial goal (I've been itching to teach some people lately).
Thanks so much for sticking around and for the support! It means so much. 💛
