Happy New Year! 2019 Changes and Plans (Patreon)
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I know this is late but happy belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thank you all for your support this year! I hope you enjoyed/are enjoying the holidays. The holidays has been a pretty comfy time for me and I'm seriously completely recharged for 2019!
I want to take this time to reflect and announce my plans for 2019! Let's talk about changes to my Patreon rewards first:
- $1 - Access to WIPs & Vote in Fanart Polls
- $5 - Full-Res Uncensored Illustrations
- $10 - PSD and CLIP Files & Suggest Fanart Sketches (chosen randomly, monthly)
Basically I switched $1 and $5 rewards. $1 for uncensored version is cheap and accessible sure, but I want to make a little more from it, to be completely honest. I believe $5 is fair, considering I will be drawing multiple NSFW illustrations per month.
And yes, the Fanart Polls are coming back! This is a bit different from the previous one though: I will be deciding which characters are going to the poll and you guys vote who gets drawn. I actually want to capitalize on trending characters and series because I want to grow my Patreon. That means I also want to refocus my Patreon towards only NSFW illustrations.
I'm sounding like a sellout and it's true. This might alienate some of you... But I want to be completely transparent and honest with you guys: I need money. Turns out, having money makes you secured and gives you access to so many things, sometimes, money can even buy happiness, or at least one form of happiness. I don't like struggling with money, nobody does, and if I want to make my Patreon become more successful, I need to look at what's working and what's not.
Obviously a big problem last year was I undertook eroge dev which divided my energy and attention, but I also didn't advertise as much as I could and I kind of limited myself to the type of content I drew (Neps, Wiz) I'm obviously still going to draw them because I really love them, but I need to be open to other series and characters as well.
Speaking of Eroge, if you follow me on twitter you might have seen that tweet that I started a collab project. Production will start soon on that project and updates will be posted over on twitter. But it is designed to be a small and manageable project so it won't get in the way of my Patreon commitments, it's just a little fun side project for me. I learned things the hard way last year but I still love making eroges so I'm not throwing the towel just yet. Thanks to failures last year, I know how to deal with eroge development a little better now :3
I removed the process videos because I don't really like doing them. I might do some process/step by step images once in a blue moon, I just don't want to put it in the rewards unless I'm absolutely certain that I can do them on a regular basis. I'm sorry if you're looking forward to those, but I don't want to be in a situation where I'm fighting myself while working.
A new addition to $10 though is Fanart Sketches. The way this will work is every month I'll post a Sketch Post for $10 Patrons where they will be able to comment 1 character of their choosing for me to sketch. At the beginning of the next month, I'll choose 3-5 from the suggestions randomly to sketch. Obviously, these will be sketches not full illustrations. At most it would be a bust/waist up sketch with maybe some basic coloring. If you reeeeally want me to draw a full illustration for you, hit me up with a commission and we'll go from there.
I think that's about it for this post. I will go ahead and edit my Patreon to reflect all of these changes. Once again, thank you for all your support and enjoy the holidays! Let's make 2019 a positive, productive and a fun year!! Let's goo!!!! ٩(ˊωˋ)و
CORRECTION:
I got things mixed up (I put full-res in $1 which should be in $5) Here's the corrected rewards:
- $1 - Access to WIPs & Vote in Fanart Polls
- $5 - Full-Res Uncensored Illustrations