Tier changes and general updates PLEASE READ

Hope you're having a great day! 

This is going to be quite long but I will kindly ask you to be patient with my broken english and read it all, since there will be important announcements in this post that will affect all current patreons. I am very grateful for your patience and if there's anything that is weird and you need more clarification please let me know in the comments!

1. REWARD DELAYS

This month's rewards will be delayed a few days but will come soon enough! I promise! the ones who know me knows full well I take this Patreon seriously and this wouldn't be happening if there weren't some good reasons for that, let me explain:

- Health Issues: For the last month I've been struggling with allergic bronchitis (and still am) which has been taken a lot of my time and reduced my productivity significantly. The good thing is that it seems that I have finally found a medical treatment that's showing some actual progress, so, hopefully I'll be better in a few days and ready to work like a maniac!

-Real Life Job: There were some unexpected changes in one of my RL jobs that absorbed most of my time, including representing my company in two different 3-day conventions. If you have experienced a similar situation you surely can attest how taxing being part of that kind of events can be.

- Commissions and overdue trades/rewards: Unfortunately I don't live in a country with free healthcare, so being sick, specially being sick for a month can be quite expensive. For that reason I had to give priority to commissions and illustrations that could help me pay meds and such.

I'm not explaining this because I want you guys to feel sorry for me, but so you can get an idea of what has been happening behind the screen and why 

2. TIER CHANGES

As you might remember I've talked in a previous post about why I felt it was important to adjust Patreon tiers and rewards to make this humble Patreon fairer for both parts. I've been doing a lot of thinking and what I'm going to show you is something will agree with most of you.

But that's like, my opinion man, that's the main reason I'm posting the new tiers here before actually making the changes, so you can give me your input and make changes accordingly if needed.

The new tiers suggested are:

$1 usd - will’ o wisp

Every bit helps, thank you so much for your help!

$2 usd - imp

Gain access to all my content, including NSFW content which will be censored for a month in other outlets from now on

$5 usd - Fiend

Benefits from previous tiers plus:

-voting rights in polls 

-A monthly package with low resolution .jpg files of artwork created that month

$10 usd -Demon

Benefits from previous tiers plus:

- Monthly package with high resolution .jpg files of artwork created that month

- 5% off commissions

$15 usd - Succubus (10 Patrons)

Benefits from Demon tier plus:

- 1 “pencil” sketch (no color, no shading) of a single, full body character (Regular price $20 usd)

- A total of 10% off commissions

$30 usd - Omnibus (3 Patrons)

Benefits from Demon tier plus:

- 1 full body, colored, single character with simple background (Regular price $35 - $45)

- A total of 15% off commissions

$50 usd - Lucy (1 Patron)

Benefits from Demon tier plus:

- You’ll be able to get not one, but two one of a kind, physical and signed pieces from me : 1 Hand Painted and signed custom token MTG card (the theme of the card doesn’t have to be MTG related but it has to be SFW), 1 SFW traditional, signed sketch, a personal thank you note and 3 stickers or a bookmark (Shipping within México is free, International Shipping not included)

- A total of 20% off commissions

So, what do you guys think? 

3. MORE PATREON BENEFITS

Commissions will be closed until I'm able to finish all pending work. From now on every time commissions would be open, patrons will get notified early and will get the opportunity to grab a slot before the general public.

4. COMMISSION SHEET WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON

5. YOUR THOUGHTS ON INKTOBER?

So, Inktober is important for me and for different reasons I haven't been able to participate the last couple of years, but I really hope to be able to participate and finish inktober again (I did back in 2014!).

I wish someday I'll be able to mix inktober and the monstergirl challenge and be able to come up by the end of the month with 31 traditional inked illustration of cool and interesting monstergirls that could end up being a digital or physical artbook. *sighs dreamily*

BUT if there is something I've learned is that I often bite more than I can chew, and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to handle a daily challenge and keeping up with the pending august rewards PLUS the september rewards, so... what I want you guys to ask you is this.

Would you be interested in a project like that? I know most of you love monstergirls (the magic that bind us all together!) so what I was thinking, and maybe this could be a future poll: would you be willing to wait one month and get 2 rewards in november instead of 1 in october and 1 in november? and instead of offering commissions next month I could offer character slots for some of the day's challenge, and Patreons would get a week head start before I offer those slots in my social media.

WDYGT?

6. THE END

Thank you all again for taking the time to read this and for all the support I've been receiving sine I started this Patreon. We're 18 now! I've met amazing people and made great friends from this site and I firmly believe this has been one of my best desitions this year, thank you guys for being with me in this crazy adventure.