Reward & Tier Changes for Sept. (Patreon)

I will be making changes this week to my Patreon. I appreciate all the support I have been receiving these past few months. Lately, however, I've been feeling like this has been more like another line of commissions.  This, in turn, would add more work to the load I already have with regular commissions. It's not your fault for this added load, but mine, since you know, I kinda set this all up to be like that. As much as I would like to give you all everything, I really want to be able to pursue personal artistic avenues.

So with these changes I'll be doing some changes to the Patreon, and this will lead to the removal of certain rewards and adjustments to pledges.

First order of business: The removal of raffles.

This has been something that I've been contemplating after a few patrons and followers on my Twitter warned me of the implementation of raffles and randomized contents. This is because of Patreon's rule against raffles, as it essentially becomes gambling given the nature of patrons paying for a random chance to win rewards. I can agree with that logic....and even if I didn't, I don't really don't want to receive any a flak or any chance of issues popping up in the future.

These changes will definitely lighten the load on me, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna leave ya high and dry on content.

Second order of business: New rewards!

With the removal of raffles, there will be fresh new rewards to take their place. These rewards will be a bit more generalized than the raffles, which means there will be far less restrictions on what I can provide for you all, and I can choose what I want to do. However, there will be some rewards that patrons can be involved in via. voting and such.
Here are the ideas I have for new rewards:

• Bi-Weekly Sketch stream: This patrons-only stream will be here I do free sketches for you all. Those of the higher pledge tiers will be have higher priority. Minimum will one sketch per patron. When I am able to do more streams during the month, I will try to do more, since I know everyone has their own lives that can get in the way.
• Wallpapers: This is someone that I kinda wanted to do for a while. I will be offering them to ALL pledges, so even the lowest tier can get something big. These wallpapers will be made in different sizes, fitting the standard sizes of most computer screens. As for the content of said wallpapers, these will be of my chosen, or will be ideas that I put up for a vote by my patrons.
• Painted Pics: Another avenue I've been wanted to take with my art. Painting can be fun, a little time consuming, but fun. I'm trying to practice more with them just to spice things up. These will be offered to the mid-high tiers of pledges, and these will range from head, bust and hip-up shots, to thigh-ups and pin-ups. For the higher tiers, I will be doing thigh-up and pin-ups of a character of their choosing. (I'm still thinking on the base tier these personal paintings will be offered at, so I will let you know my final thoughts later this week.)
  
• Image Packs: I've always wanted to do image packs, but I never really felt I pumped out enough artwork to call for them >3> (mind you, these we my thoughts from about a few years ago). These packs will be offer at most pledging tiers and will, of course, vary in content. Right now, the only type I'm planning on is a Sketch Image Pack every month, since sketches and color sketches are what I produce the most frequently. Inks and Color Packs will most likely be less frequent but who knows? In the future, as things improve such as equipment and well, skills, I will be able to pump out more inks and color content.
  
• Voting and Suggestions For Image Packs and other content: As the topic name states, voting will be a bigger deal with the content I will be putting out. These will range from ideas that I present to you for you to vote on, or ideas YOU suggest that will be voted on. That way, I can work on things that not only I enjoy, but YOU enjoy seeing. WIN-WIN! :D
  
  

For now, these are all the thoughts I have on the matter. I'm apologize for my changing so much. I want to make this an enjoyable experience for all of you, but I also don't want to burn myself out. Please, if you have any thoughts on the matter, message me on Patreon, my Twitter @SiriusWakita, my FA: SiriusDog, or you can just email me at: siriusdog91@gmail.com. I want to hear your thoughts, and maybe it will clear things up and fix any problems that may come.

Thank you so much for supporting me all this time, and for reading this all the way through. Because of you all, I've been able to take care of living expenses more readily, and I hope that I can provide excellent compensation for your support: all of the colorful drawings of the crazy animal variety!