Regarding Patron Pick Suggestions (Monthly and HE) (Patreon)

Hey there, Oxdarock here!

Just wanted to make a post dedicated to how suggestions will work going forward, just to clear things up and in response to a couple of questions I've gotten. It can pretty much be broken up into three parts.

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Extra heads and Character Extras

Due to changes with the High-End Patron Requests, starting this month, I'll be allowing patrons to suggest up to three heads for conjoinment related ideas for monthly polls. I feel that three heads isn't too heavy of an extra workload compared to other things I've included in pictures, nor do I think that any ideas with three heads will be overly popular compared to those with two heads.

I'll also allow suggestions to have one non-TF character extra (with exceptions for dick growth, slime, stretchy body, etc). Particular naming convention aside, the best way to describe this would be a character that I wouldn't need to zoom out for or who takes up a lot of space in the foreground, which is the reason I say non-TF specifically. The only reason I exclude things like dick growth is mainly for plot purposes and compositional flexibility (basically, I'm not locked into specific PoVs). If they do have such TFs, they need to be interacting with the main character in some way. Here's some examples:

• April 2022 PP Sketches (pictures 1 and 3): The extras a included as a size reference and are cut out of the page.
• October 2021 PP Sketches (picture 2): More than half of the boy's body is cut out or hidden.
• January 2021 Sketches (picture 2): Extra is used for size reference.
• I Dream of Big Meat and Mini Meat Master: Extra is used for size reference and sex related plot tool. 
• 3/22 Commissions (picture 1): Extra character is used as a plot tool, as well as groping the main character. 

On a side note, I don't count Chibi characters as character extras, as they are low effort enough that I'm not too concerned about extra drawing time. Probably the only concern I have are extras who are interacting with the main character from behind. Hopefully, like three-headed suggestions, characters extras shouldn't be overwhelmingly popular in the monthly polls. 

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Who Can Be Suggested 

First off, regading  questions about suggesting OCs for HE requests, however, the only artists whose OCs I like enough for me to draw them as a request would be Matsu-Sensei (Graphiteknight), Challodillo, MasterGodai, Sanone (I think), and Kojiro-Brushard (linegutter). Anyone else I most likely will have next to no interest in, at least for a request. 

The reason why this is important is because I'll only allow suggestions for characters that I like (similar to monthly polls). This doesn't matter for monthly polls as I put up a new group of characters every month, however, it's a bit harder for HE requests that don't have that same limitation. That said, I don't want to limit it to characters that are my absolute favorite, as there as some characters who I like less but wouldn't mind drawing. Think of it as a tier list with three levels. You have:

• My favorite characters who I'd be eager to draw for nearly anything 90%-100% of the time.
• Characters I think are cool/am aware of who aren't the first I'd think to draw, but wouldn't mind doing so.
• Characters who I don't know/don't have any interest in, and thus have next no desire to draw. 

So long as the character's asked for fall in the first two groups, it's fine. My main concern is that I have some mental investment in whoever I draw so that requests don't feel like a chore. 

I've made a folder that contains previous monthly polls to give people an idea of who I'm interested in, but if people want, I'm find with making a huge list whenever I have the time. Only issue is that, it'll be extremely word heavy, so I'll post a poll about whether to do this or not. 

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Current HE Request Slots and Auto-filling

In order to make things easier on my HE patrons, especially those who previously had an idea in their request slot, I've autofilled their slots with ideas from previous monthly polls. Going forward, since the the requirements are the same for monthly and HE polls, I will autofill any blank slots if the patron it belongs to makes a suggestion for a monthly poll that doesn't win. This is simply to make things easier on people.

HE patrons are also free to add an original idea that's different from a poll suggestion if they so choose. Simply contact me, and we can go from there. You can see the current High-End Request slots here. 

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That's pretty much everything! Again, please contact me via comments or private messages if you have any questions. And once again, apologies for the sudden change. 

That's all for now!

EDIT: If you'd like me to keep your HE request slot empty until you think of an idea or in general, that's fine as well. Just contact me and I'll make a note of it.