$20 tier notice
Added 2020-07-01 18:41:38 +0000 UTCHey there, peeps.
Just wanted to drop a line and update you guys with some future plans.
Let me start by saying, this won't go into effect until next month at the earliest. And I am currently working on the dog tf and the horse guy thing tf that I've been having trouble with. So don't worry those are coming.
Long story short, I find the $20 tier to be too draining of my time for the amount of money I make back. While I appreciate the contributions, I could make that money back in commissions in a fraction of the time. I find the $10 tier to be much more fulfilling and easier to tackle. People take advantage of the $20 tier, making commission-level requests and it becomes too much of a burden to complete. It makes me miss other work/animations that could be putting out.
So starting in August or so, I'll be dissolving the $20 tier. People are welcome to contribute to it, but you'll only be getting the benefits of the $10 tier. I need to start thinking in efficiency since we have so many new patrons.
If you paid for July, you still get a request this month. Don't worry. I wasn't pulling a fast one on you.
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I hit enter to start a new line and it submitted the comment. But furthermore. I don't like work that doesn't end when the month ends. It's horrible for me, so I wouldn't do that. I'll probably just switch to animating what I want to animate, beef that tier up and eventually simply do a couple animations a month so I can ease off of sketches, eventually getting rid of them or something. I'm getting to the point of transitioning to that, but I'm not QUITE popular enough for it yet. But you'll notice I've been doing more and more animations, slowly making my way to that point.
Tail-Blazer
2020-07-03 14:59:43 +0000 UTCI think the sketches are fine. I only have to do a handful. And they are more like prompts, not "go back and forth and add this add that". It's just gotten out of hand. There surely is a point where there will be too many sketches to handle. This isn't the point though, for me.
Tail-Blazer
2020-07-03 14:12:31 +0000 UTCTotally get it and you have my support all the way
Mashugana
2020-07-02 03:27:51 +0000 UTCYeah it's just the amount of work Tail is doing now both: isn't sustainable, and isn't scaleable, I think he's be in a much better place if he committed to doing "x" number of things for each tier, and stuck to that, and just let the rest rollover on a list, while the people who did would move to the back of the line and get a new request in. It's less exciting for the patrons, but you will crowd out every big project you do if you don't set limitations on these rewards that are nickle and diming you for your time, and the patreon as a whole will get less enticing because you will only produce tons of one-off sketches and won't have those big attractive pieces that everyone ooo's and ahh's over like sequences/comics/animation. Personally, I made a $20 tier that allowed sequence requests, but I only do one sequence request a month (hard limit). That means they will sit in queue for number of months x number of $20 patrons, before they get one - so they'll probably pay an amount equal to what the sequence would have cost to commission, and fitting one sequence in a month is a reasonable amount of work with all of the other projects (for me anyway).
Wat
2020-07-01 19:37:38 +0000 UTCThat's what I usually see too, usually you get put on a list and the artist sets a schedule of x amount of drawings in a certain period, and you eventually get your drawing after 2 months or so depending on popularity. Might be something to look into if you want the higher tier back in the future since it would spread out the work much more and allow you to get more than 20 bucks per sketch depending on how long the list is.
DonofKiwi
2020-07-01 19:32:08 +0000 UTCYou're approaching a number of patrons where no amount of requests will be possible to completely finish every month, personally on my patron I do requests like you do, but the request tiers are not a "you get it every month" but a "I work through them every month and eventually you'll get one." This means that patronage generally happens over multiple months to pay for the sketch request and it comes out to a more reasonable price per request. It also lets people put their requests in once and then they only have to submit them again when you finish and gives you a list to work through. We have a similar level of patrons, so I imagine you might have similar success with the method.
Wat
2020-07-01 18:46:53 +0000 UTC
