Big Changes Coming to Patreon - 2021 Update
Added 2021-02-22 16:01:45 +0000 UTCHey everyone, first I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting me during these difficult times. You have no idea how much it means to me. I have a feeling this update may cause some of you to reconsider your pledge and I completely understand, but the upcoming changes I'm having to put in place after heavy consideration for my own workload, mental state, and overall management of my time.
First is the Sketch Rewards, which have been an extremely popular reward on my Patreon, so much so that I've dedicated a large chunk of my workload and even accommodated some of your requests to include more than the recommended amount. Mostly because I really did need the extra income and I wanted to give others exactly what they wanted. Sadly I can no longer do that.
Effective next month in March, I will be ENDING the $20 sketch rewards as they currently are. They were a novelty at first but now I am accepting far too many. From now on I will ONLY accept 1 CHARACTER REQUESTS. No exceptions.
The $10 Suggestion Pool tier was an experiment to see how well it faired after I did away with the original sketch reward. Unfortunately it has not gone the way I intended. So from now on the suggestion pool will be theme oriented.
There are some rewards that will remain the same. The $1 of course will remain as the tip jar that offers early content and WIPS. The $5 allows for voting rights from the next monthly pin-up.
I want to be clear that these are decisions I've dwelled on for quite some time and decided to finally enact them. So please do not feel like this is about anyone in particular. This is for my own mental health and workload. I thank you once again for your support!
Comments
I remember when I first became a pledger, my first 5 monthly sketches were one character
David Lewis
2021-02-22 19:48:17 +0000 UTCI figured you were going to cut down on the extra somehow. I did hope it just be you raising it to say, 20 for an extra character, but I figured it be just reverting to how it was in the past.
John Doe
2021-02-22 19:45:13 +0000 UTCI would have understood if you had mentioned earlier about reverting the number of characters we could have in our requests back to 1. .
David Lewis
2021-02-22 19:27:08 +0000 UTCYes
Chillguydraws
2021-02-22 18:57:47 +0000 UTCOk. Its still $20.00 for color sketch for one character?
David Lewis
2021-02-22 18:54:05 +0000 UTCThat I can't answer
Chillguydraws
2021-02-22 18:41:33 +0000 UTCSo will it still be $20, but just one character? Is there a point in the future when you may allow up to 3 again?
David Lewis
2021-02-22 18:37:13 +0000 UTCUnderstandable, I respect this.
BTOP1110
2021-02-22 16:47:30 +0000 UTCYes, because that's two models of work and I'm trying to avoid that. Thank you for asking though!
Chillguydraws
2021-02-22 16:45:21 +0000 UTCi already have an album of charater request and 20% of them are above the new limit so i'll just put them on the bottom of the list until there's a change in the character limit. question: does a reference picture of 1 character where its a picture of the character's front and rear count as 2 characters or 1? example: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/025/051/182/large/rohit-sharma-front-back.jpg?1584438694
A.D.E.
2021-02-22 16:42:18 +0000 UTC
