Smaller Commissions? (Patreon)

Hey guys, so I've noticed that recently I've been having problems with being concise in alot of the content that I make. Oftentimes, the requests that I draw seem to end up being bigger than I expected (or even the requester expected), the last two being a good example. Believe it or not personally it's kind of harder for me to do smaller pictures over bigger ones even though I often try to do them just to keep a steady output schedule. I mean, I still want to do small pictures but that's not what happens alot of the time.

At the same time even though I get people asking for commissions I often have to decline due to being busy, usually only being able to do them when I'm not working on Patreon and all that. Like with small requests I want to do them more, but I often am not able to find the time.

So that's when an idea popped into my head that should (hoepfully) address both problems at once, which is dividing my schedule between requests where I can be flexible and maybe work on bigger projects, while also doing commissions when I'm in the mood to do smaller pictures which are more concise and where the commissioner explicitly defines things for me. 

My own thinking is that maybe working when there is a specific agreed upon dollar for picture transaction will keep me from overdoing things too much. The problem with being too flexible (which is the approach I've taken with alot of requests) is that it's easy to go overboard with things. I mean I like being flexible and taking ideas as far as I would like, but what I don't like is spending too much time on a single picture when I want to keep things simple, so hopefully this will allow me to do both when I want to.

Now before I was doing a pay-what-you-want approach to doing commissions but this time I'll probably go back to doing a traditional priced system. That means updating prices which I haven't done for more than 5 years last I checked, so hopefully you guys will understand a price hike (especially since everything seems to be hiked up nowadays anyways). I think having specific prices will encourage people to be more specific (which should hopefully not be much of a big ask for commissions), since like  I said before I think having too much flexibility makes it difficult to be concise. I'm kind of still working on the prices, since money isn't an issue to me here, but at the same time I don't really want to undersell what my pictures are worth either (especially since I haven't raised prices since 2017), so it's still TBD.

In addition I'll probably try to keep the limit to just a 3 panels per commission and also limit things to 2 characters each. It'll also be limited to sketches and coloured sketches as well since I don't want them to be too big for me.  So if you have a commission idea that's bigger or more complicated than what I just specified then sorry but I'm not gonna do that. 

Since the commissions I'm doing are also kept as sketches I'll probably be treating them the same way as requests in that if a certain commission gets alot of likes then I'll be colouring them in the following months. 

All in all it shouldn't affect the scheduling of what I post for the most part, though I don't know how much it's gonna affect things. It'll probably mean I get more smaller pictures out there and less back-to-back larger ones like recently. This is all still ideas in my head and I'm still working it out, but I'm just throwing it out there since it's been on my mind recently and also give a heads up for those interested.