May Update (Reward changes) (Patreon)

Hello all! I trust you're enjoying these early days of summer in which the world splits into three kinds of people: the ones wearing boots, the ones wearing sandals and the ones wearing a parka over speedos.

I'll start off with a huge thank you for all your continued support and pledges. It's meant the world to see that number grow over the last few months and even more, to see some Easy/Intermediate patrons increase their pledge to higher tiers. I really can't say how grateful I am.

You should have all hopefully received the package for last month (let me know if not!). Your feedback on these is always more than welcome - is it enough? Is it too much? Do you have any ideas of what else you would like me to add? Say so in the comments!

Reward Package changes & updates

You may have noticed that I have not included a blog in this month's reward packages. To replace that, Easy patrons now receive a "Fan kit" with avatars/wallpapers for the month's piece. (Let me know what you think of this in the comments!)

The reason for this decision is that, in its current format, it's very difficult to gauge interest or usefulness of the topics I write about. There are no stats or metrics or room for comments, which takes away from the mission of being an accesible learning resource. That aside, the blog takes about a day to compose, which is time I often feel might be better realigned to producing more artwork.

With that in mind, I don't plan on completely stopping the blog. I just need some time to work out a better solution and to that end, I feel that for now I should only provide rewards that I can be consistent with.

In the meantime, I'd like to offer a reminder that there is a Discord channel available to Advanced patrons in which you can get 1-to-1 art feedback, art resources, art livestream links and all kinds of other shenanigans. Our little community is growing fast and steady, so why not join us??

Lastly, this is a heads up to an upcoming change in the rewards structure:

At the moment, my commissions are open to Patrons only, with Easy tier receiving access to the list and Int/Adv patrons receiving priority. From next month, I will be closing down to Intermediate>Access and Advanced>Priority. Though this might change again in the long-term future, at the moment I feel like I need to restrict my list even further, as I'm steadily getting booked up beyond my possibilities.

With that in mind, anybody who signed up for a commission before May 31st will be grandfathered into the list. So if you wish to get in now, please DM me or contact me at cindy@windmill-walk.com 

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That's all from me for now, but as usual, if you have any questions I'm only a message away! <3