Changes & Additions to Support/Digital Tier (Removing WIPs - adding highres painting videos) (Patreon)

Afternoon wavies!🌊

I've been debating this for awhile, but I've been thinking about changing the Support & Digital Tiers a little bit to alter how much I offer my behind-the-scenes work.

Allow me to go through my thought process a bit here:

The social media algorithm seems to get HUNGRIER by the day, it's literally so insane. Not being able to share my progress on a regular basis leaves my social media bare - and half the time I do create behind-the-scenes work, I often forget to post it here, or I just end up feeling it's not that worthy to be it's own Patreon post.

Currently what I'm trying to do is: I'll post it early to Patreon and then about a month later, I post it publicly on my socials when that Patreon set becomes available. This is creating a pretty confusing posting schedule for me, because it usually requires me laying on my couch for hours at a time to pull up old videos and photos I've record over a month ago, just to make TikToks and such (because leaving them in drafts for too long kills them).... anyway, it's kind of a big confusing mess, and I know it would be much easier on my psyche if I could just post these things while I was working on them.

TLDR; I feel like as a content creator, I need to start posting more of my WIPs publicly to keep my public accounts alive.

The more my Patreon develops my behind-the-scenes have become less of a feature anyway, with physical rewards, the shop, and voting really being the main interest here.

CHANGES & ADDITIONS

That being said, I do not want to take something away without adding some extra special to these tiers!! So here's my plan for revamp over the next couple months:

Support Tier

• Main change: I'm going to take away about 75% of behind-the-scenes content and start posting it publicly - mostly drawing WIPs. Shop photos & product previews will all stay on this tier as first-look content (such as t-shirts and other new shop merch)
• Patreon set progress photos will start being posted publicly
• Voting & Patreon shop password will remain as usual on this tier

Digital Tier

• All high-res rewards will remain! So sticker files, painting scans, highres PDF sketchbook, all that is the same
• Addition: But I am hooooooping to add a very special new rewards to this tier: highres, real time painting videos from start-to-finish!!✨✨✨

I recently invested in a new laptop and am currently in the middle of rigging up my painting desk specifically for this purpose. I think I just need to invest in a new webcam so it can get better visuals on the details.
I'll be using all the clips I record from these start-to-finish videos to make smaller versions for TikToks and Instagram Reels, to help promote the Digital Tier ("see full painting video on my Patreon").

I'm hoping the highres real time painting videos is a pretty good addition for taking away the WIPs! 😂Lol
Hoping this will be ready for July!

Sorry if this is actually barely a change at all - I realize most people are not joined to my Patreon for WIPs anyway, but I thought the transparency would be important rather than just changing things and not saying anything about it.

Thank you always for your support!