Changes to the patreon coming december

(TL;DR is at the bottom)

I'm going to be upfront and blunt; The Patreon still hasn't been working out the way I was hoping for and with some of my personal situations getting exacerbated I think its due for some further, very drastic, change. At this moment in time, I feel that the $1 tier gives a lot of stuff for not a lot of money. There's benefits to this obviously, but there's big drawbacks too. I don't see a lot of that $1 with percentage cuts and currency conversion.

Starting this December, I'll be making the following adjustments:

-Charge upfront will be implemented. When you donate, please make sure you do it as early to the month as possible, especially if its a particularly large sum. Patreon will otherwise charge you twice.

-The $1 tier will now be a simple "tip jar" tier. If you continue to donate at this tier after the start of december, you will lose access to any future early access renders and wips. I still very much appreciate your donation though, and I would never let these changes ever impact that. This change is also not retroactive, so if you wanted to look through my older WIPs you're more than welcome to do so, even after these changes!

-The $3 tier will become a "creator" tier; at this tier, guides on certain elements of SFM will become available to you. These aren't intended for total newcomers and I would still recommend you check valves official tutorials beforehand, but they will cover some things I see even other artist friends of all skill types mess up sometimes. This tier will not be added until I have at least one guide ready for it and I think I have a good idea for one, so its just a matter of gathering all the things I need to make it look nice.   

-At $5, I will be adding the "timesaver" tier; this is a merge of the current two $1 and $3 tiers I have, so that means you'll get the SFM sessions AND the early access to released artwork.

I don't honestly know where WIPs will fit into all of this right now but I'm thinking the $3 tier would be a nice place for it. 

Like with the last change, the goal of this overhaul is to make sure each tier has something more permanent if anything impacts my ability to create renders that month, but this is probably how I should've done it the first time. 

If you're currently a Patron, consider this your heads up to prepare to change your pledge, as I will be working on adding these tiers at the end of the month. 

 TL;DR: Tiers are being radically changed- at the start of December, 2019, $1 tier will now become a tip jar, $5 is what $1 used to be but merged with the SFM sessions tier, $3 for guides (tier will be added when at least one guide is ready)