a note on the lineart reward tier (Patreon)

I'm going to be abolishing the lineart reward perk from the $5 tier. This'll be the last month it's supported.

Exporting the lienart separately from the rest of the image would be a lot easier if my style and approach were a lot simpler, and I didn't regularly do additional image processing, tinted lineart, or sequences/layering which are essential tools to make things like image sets and animations. However, as these are things that I do, and they're rather important to my approach, this makes outputting just the linearts a rather arduous process. And I don't think people would like me to drastically simplify all my drawings and cutting down the content I do just for the sake of making easily-exportable lineart.

Just to give an example, the worst one from this month required me to rifle through 240 layers (which may be an underestimate) just to find the 4 that were necessary to output a B/W image with no color/shading.

So, come March, the lineart archive will no longer receive any further updates. I'll likely make the archives up to this point available to the next tier lower. The $10 tier will still have access to source files, and can extract lineart if interested.