[UPDATE] Re: Image of the Month rewards

Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing well. Please take time to read my current situation and if you can, do provide feedback. (tl;dr is marked with [*] if you want to skip to that)

As you may or may not know, I try to consistently alternate between Image of the Month and Time-exculsive Commission Preview rewards, posting them at the tenth of each month.

Image of the Month (IotM) rewards are full-rendered art consisting of usually a single character, typically with clothed and naked versions, and has about a scene set of 5-6 images transitioning towards a cum scene. They are posted here exclusively for the month and are moved to my Gumroad soon after.

Time-exculsive Commission Preview (TCP) rewards are simply that: art commissioned by others that can be accessed here on my Patreon exclusively for a while, always with the client's permission. I usually take my time to post said art on my social media, specifically Twitter.

Lately, I've been having issues with my day job that I have to give about 90% of my attention to it. This means less time to do art, which is generally used up for making commissioned art, and compromises the time to make IotM rewards. I honestly can't believe I pulled through with the Nero IotM last month; I was considering shelving that halfway. But I know that's bad work ethic, and there are those of you who pledged specifically for it. It wasn't my best work, to be honest, and I apologize.

I want to be transparent with all of you and say that making IotM rewards is very tasking for me. Having to draw a naked base, making face and body part alternates, making clothes and an adequate background, then sometimes mob/random bodies that interact with the guy and making alternates of that, then painting everything in full render. It takes about two weeks of 2-hour drawing sessions for me to make a full set. It’s not very efficient and sustainable in my current situation.

[*] I am considering an alternate type of reward. Instead of a full IotM set, it will be a single image, no alternate versions, still full render. I will also provide separate files showing the progress of the image: from sketch, lineart, flat colors up to finished render. And instead of being posted in rotation with TCP rewards, it will come with the commissioned art monthly. If I can’t provide sufficient commissioned art that month (upwards to 3 is my standard), I will be making 2-3 of this type of new reward instead.

Thank you for taking time to read up to here. If you want to give any thoughts or feedback, you can do so either in the comments or through private message.