Major Patreon Tier Changes

I've been working on a lot of different things lately, including art, and one of the things that I've been interested in doing is revamping and reworking my Patreon tiers and rewards.

I've felt for a while that the tiers I put together back in January 2018 were done with minimal experience in how rewarding or incentivizing they'd actually be OR how much work they would be for me, personally. In revamping them now, I'm basically correcting certain work mistakes and letting myself feel more comfortable with what I'm giving followers.

So Here are the upcoming changes to all the tiers. For the most part, I'm letting myself be more open to general input with the moving of character polls, and letting Patreons decide more personal things with the private project idea. 

Character suggestions, while often unused by Patrons, I decided to shift as well, due to the significant discount I was giving on them before ($25 for a commission, $5 for a character) as well as the potential work overload I'd be giving myself IF people started to frequently make use of the monthly suggestion. The new tier of $20 is still a discount now, and will be much easier overall for me to work on ultimately.

I've also adjusted all the commission discounts for similar reasons, based mainly on what the tier itself pays.

The final major changes are the two new additional rewards. For one, I'm going to begin posting my personal, non-holiday-related art to Patreon first, about 5 to 7 days before it goes live anywhere else. Commissions and timed content like a holiday-themed drawing will still go up everywhere at once, but I figured this would be a simple and harmless incentive for pledging that I see many other creators successfully use. I will NEVER post ONLY to Patrons in this way, it's just a way to see art earlier than others.

There's also the new "suggest a sequel piece" reward. While expensive comparatively, I think this is a good idea that will give me both more motivation to draw complex rewards, and there are PLENTY of drawings to choose from. Depending on the patron, it could also allow me to flex my often-underused writing muscles.

This WOULD be a NSFW-only tier, since my SFW art really doesn't have a way to apply here? Though honestly, I feel like NSFW followers are more likely to be the ones pledging to that tier anyway, lol. If any SFW-only followers have a suggestion for what else could be equal to that reward, feel free to let me know.

Anyways, these are the major changes to my Patreon that will be gonig into affect for March and beyond. If you'd like to change/remove your pledge before then, I understand, and the changes themselves will be going live a few days before March 1st if you want to access a tier that currently doesn't exist.