Switching from "per cartoon" to monthly. (Patreon)

So for a while now the amount of people watching my cartoons has been on a slightly declining plateau path.  The same is true for patron pledges.  So I want to make a few changes and see if I can reverse both trends (or one of them at least!)

I'm going to switch the patreon to trigger monthly instead of per cartoon starting at the end of this month.  

I want to try and build my channel by making more shorts like I used to back in 12/13.  But I also want to make longer narrative stories, so I'm going to do both simultaneously.  

In the past I didn't feel like I could trigger the patreon for something I didn't spend very long on, for example Calloused Hands (which took me a bit under 2 weeks) and Sweet Boy Beach (5-6 days).  On the flip side, there's the Fernando toon I'm making now, which is probably going to take 5-6 weeks all up.  Most of the cartoons I've funded with patreon have been this way (I usually overshoot by at least a week but sometimes longer, I think I spent 2 whole months on Sweet Sweet Goo).

I'm also going to turn the Greasytales channel, where I've been uploading the ad-free versions of the cartoons, into a place for collaborations similar to the greasytales facebook page.  

Switching to monthly will hopefully allow me to make shorter and longer things.  Perhaps some of you will reduce or cancel your pledge as a result of this, if that is so it's understandable and thank you very much for your support!  Without you guys I'd be working for someone somewhere and not making cartoons in the manner I do now.  Your support has been liberating and amazing, and I'm very proud of *most* of the things I've made in the past almost 2 years on patreon.  However I will be spending the same amount of time animating as before, and I will be producing cartoons more often (that's the plan anyway).

Finally, if I do take a temporary job or go on a holiday I'll set the patreon back to "per cartoon", I'll only collect your pledges if I spend most of the month on cartoons that are not work for someone else.  

Thanks.

PS working on another Sweet Boy Beach on the greasytales page!