The Nature of this Patreon (Patreon)
Content
I have been on Patreon since August, and I have loved interacting with you all. It feels much more personal than Deviant Art, and seeing the same Patrons post week after week is heartening, as well as seeing new names come by. It's been a slow climb, but we have gone up in members, with some people having to leave and then returning, it's heartening to see that (maybe?) people aren't leaving because of the content, but maybe for other reasons. My life has been full of them.
But, that said, I don't think sketch-by-request is going to work out anymore as a model for the site. It's just not drawing in the numbers I need to justify the time (at $30 a sketch, even at 2 a week the site doesn't pay for my time.) And, at the end of the day, it's fan art. I like fan art, but it's not mine, you know? Combine that with the downloadables (that I'm behind on) and the rewards (that I'm also woefully behind on) I think it's time to re-assess.
So, I think coming up in the next few months, I'm going to change the nature of this Patreon a bit. I really want to start gearing up toward producing narrative content here, to differentiate it from my DeviantArt page, which will focus more on commission work (I will still post sneak peeks here).
I think I need to say goodbye, at least for now, to the Friday sketch streams. I love the few of you that always show up, but I feel like a lot of you would show up to watch me draw just about ANYTHING, so if I can use that time to work on client work or a comic I may be doing, that's win-win for everyone. I'm sure I'll do a request stream at some point in the future, again, it's just not going to be a regular thing.
The sketch streams are a source of the many rewards for patrons, though, Which will mean I'll need to adjust those rewards toward the new content, particularly Morphean-tier subscribers.
Currently there are 6 Morpheans who have not received a sketch-stream benefit, so I will need to figure out a way to make good with them. It will still probably involve some sort of exclusive art that I do that they direct, but I don't think it will be related to the streams. Maybe my -only- sketch streams will be Morphean rewards? I'm not sure right now.
Regardless, those folks will be contacted soon by me. YOU WILL GET YOUR REWARDS! :) Just need to figure out what that's going to mean.
In the mean time, stay tuned to this space. The narrative work will start small, being a combination of Sleep Talking pages as well as 1-page transformation sequences (starring characters who aren't my OCs).
A point of discussion: Would an equivalent Morphean award be having your OC in a starring role in a 1 page comic? it would be a YCH role, and not something you would dictate (though you would know the nature of the transformation before the character was included). Discuss below!