Patreon Tier Updates- Private Streams & The Return Of Nub Club! (Patreon)

Hey everyone! 

I have some updates coming for April! I've been working hard at clearing my commission queue from the last few months and thankfully I'm catching up quite quickly now so I'm ready to bring back some things for April!

Firstly is art streams! I use to frequently stream commissioned sketch and upgrade streams publicly twice a week. They were really fun and allowed me to engage with followers easier and produce more artwork! I ended up putting those on a long pause late Spring of last year because of how busy things got in my life. Dust has settled now so I'm ready to bring them back, however this time I'd like to offer streams privately through Patreon/SubscribeStar. They'll still be hosted on my Picarto channel, however streams will require a password to enter, which will be posted here right before I go live.

Why go private? I want to offer you guys more on my pledge pages, and I think hosting streams exclusively on Patreon may give folks more of a reason to pledge here! I also want to keep streams a little more small and close knit. I did find the more I frequently streamed publicly, some nights would get a little chaotic. So, to keep things more manageable, I'd like to make streams private from now on! Streams will be available to $3+ pledgers, however streams will always be marked NSFW since I usually get quite a few NSFW ideas coming through. So be aware, if you're in the $3 tier! NSFW may pop up in these streams!

We'll return to the schedule of upgrade streams on Monday's at 6PM EST (where folks submit a commission request for a sketch they received from me in the past to be cleaned up with inks/colours and shading, if requested) and sketch streams on Friday's at 6PM EST. YES 10% patron discounts (if you're in the tier that receives the coupon) can count towards your commission if you get a slot during the stream! 

The next thing I'm bringing back in April is the Nub Club tier! However it'll be operating a little differently from now on! Instead of having a form for folks to put their commission requests through, I'll be uploading a batch of drawn YCH poses for folks in the Bean Club tier to choose from. They'll just need to comment on the post with the pose they want and include a link to their character, and any other written details I may need to know about. Why change it up? Doing this also allows me to focus on poses I really want to draw, while making it a little easier for folks in the tier to get something they really like too! This also gives me the opportunity to introduce fun themes in the pose batches too every once in a while (something I also use to do back when I did streams, was do themed YCHs) as well. The same rules will still apply; 3 patrons in the tier at a time for a max of 3 months. After their 3 months are up, they'll get rotated out so a new 3 can join (that way we're giving lots of people a chance at the tier). The price of the tier will go up to $150, however it's still discounted from what I normally charge for a flat coloured single character illustration. Patron discounts will not apply to said tier since the tier is already discounted by approx. 10% anyway!  

So that's it! All of this will apply come April 1st! The first stream will happen APRIL 7TH. Nub Club tier will be LIVE right on April 1st. Not asking for folks interst in joining this time since we're starting fresh, so it will be first come first serve when it opens. I'll make a post here before I open the tier so you're all pinged via email (and a mass ping will go out on Discord too!)

Looking forward to this! Hope you're all just as excited ^_^