May Update - Prices, Goals, Thoughts (Patreon)

Hello! Gold here. I can't believe it is already getting close to the end of the month. I have been working a lot with my commissions, with little time to work for stuff for myself! That plus needing to rest the hand, since I did mess both up a bit for arting too much. Whoops.

Still recovering, they can sometimes hurt or get uncomfortable and it gets distracting. I am trying to take it easy so I can keep using them instead of being forced to not use them for days.

Full Renders take me a lot of work. Easily a mawshot can take 5 days (minimum) and that is only colors + render. I have gotten faster on some aspects and improved on them too due to all the practice and work, but they still take me a while to go through them. Now with my hands getting hurt and taking weeks to heal up, I have decided to up the price of full render mawshots again. This will let me work on them without feeling too pressured, not overwork my hands and mess them up, also a chance to open for them more often while also be able to spend some time for other kind of work.

I am thinking of $200 as base. Still unsure for sketch work, I may give them a small increase but still want them to be an option for people who can't or are not interested on full renders. (Also sketch stuff is faster and not as heavy)

Lastly, I have been thinking on asking my Patrons ideas to sketch, things they'd like to see me work with, or make polls for ideas I may come up with and then see what Patreons would like the most. I still want Patreon to be a passive income, for my hands and health's sake, so I can't go too wild with this. It'd be a way to add goals, also voting power depending of the support tier. I'd start with messy sketches and upgrade up to Refined sketch with basic, fast rendering.

Very much testing waters, so will see how things go.

Do let me know what are your thoughts!