Anniversary Update & Upcoming Changes (Patreon)

Hello friends,

if you noticed, last poll was actually the 12th patreon poll, marking a full year of your guys support! I want to say a big thank you for supporting me this long. However, I'd also like to use this opportunity to address some issues I've had and some changes I want to make. 

Firstly, let's talk about the monthly patreon pics. When I started doing patreon pics, I quickly found myself struggling to not only come up with ideas for pics, but also finishing the pictures on time. Making them was still fun, but I ended up investing a lot of time into the pics, even though I was never truly satisfied with the end results. Since I always had to finish them by the end of the month, I often could not invest as much time into them as I would've liked. In the past I used to spend much, much more time on single pics, trying to improve my art and experiment with different styles. I also was able to do much more commission work, but patreon pics have eaten up a large chunk of my free time. 

Secondly, the content that I draw is also something I am not happy with. In order to find characters for the patreon poll, I usually grab popular characters from games or shows. However over the past year my twitter growth (which is my main platform) has been very slow. In the past I got the most followers from doing TiTS and CoC2 pics, which would then get retweeted by the devs of those games (Fenoxo and Savin). Drawing more generic characters has eliminated this connection, so my twitter growth has stagnated. I still enjoy drawing all sorts of characters, but I want to focus more on characters, that will result in more attention.

Well I've been talking for quite a while now ^^'. What I want to say is that I unfortunately don't think I want to do patreon pics on a monthly basis anymore. There will still be patreon pics and polls, but for now I want to put more time into personal projects and also be able to spend as much time as I need on the patreon pics.

For my 5$ patreon supporters, this means that there will now be different polls every now and then. To compensate for the lack of monthly polls, I'll try and post more smaller polls whenever I am unsure about what to do for certain pics (what pose, what outfit etc). I'll try to post them regularly, so the number of polls you guys can vote on won't go down too much.

Obviously I understand that this is quite a change from before, so I totally understand if you are no longer interested in the 5$ tier. If decide to cancel your subscription, I would still ask you to consider the 1$ tier though. With access to all my nsfw & full res versions, I think it's not only great rewards for a low price, but I would also greatly appreciate if my patreon count would not decrease.

Thank you for taking the time to read through the entire post. I hope to show off some cool pics soon and will see you guys around.

Cheers,

ToonNik