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PROBABLY CLOSING DOWN MY PATREON (end of this month)
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JOURNAL STARTS HERE changed up my patreon rewards, let's try this and hope it's less stress!
Sad news for me. I'm going to have to close down my patreon.
I started it because I was hoping it'd mean I'd get enough support from my followers that way, to be able to take time to do personal work more instead of always drawing commissions and rarely my own characters. But that's just not what's happened.
It's just not feasible for me to keep updating it and taking time to draw rewards when they end up being cheaper on patreon than if I were doing them as commissions.
and I just don't know how to encourage people to support me with even a dollar on there despite being told my rewards for it are great.
My art is my ONLY form of income besides government welfare. And while I'm just about able to pay what my dad asks for me for rent/food, it means that I'm 100% stuck living with him. (and yes I have been trying to get another job for almost a year now. my hometown literally has no jobs that will take me because I'm 'over qualified' due to going to college and university apparently.)
I'm extremely thankful to all those who have supported me while it's been running. you've all helped a lot.
So before the next charging period and after I've done these last rewards, unless something drastically changes with my number of supporters on there, I will be closing it down.
I may release cheap sketch zip files in future if anyone is interested. though I have to work out where/how to sell them other than someone emailing then paypal-ing me and me sending them the file.
If anyone has ANY suggestions on either how I can make my patreon more enticing (if i decide to take it up again in future) or how they think I should sell sketch packs, let me know!
https://www.patreon.com/masahiko
I started it because I was hoping it'd mean I'd get enough support from my followers that way, to be able to take time to do personal work more instead of always drawing commissions and rarely my own characters. But that's just not what's happened.
It's just not feasible for me to keep updating it and taking time to draw rewards when they end up being cheaper on patreon than if I were doing them as commissions.
and I just don't know how to encourage people to support me with even a dollar on there despite being told my rewards for it are great.
My art is my ONLY form of income besides government welfare. And while I'm just about able to pay what my dad asks for me for rent/food, it means that I'm 100% stuck living with him. (and yes I have been trying to get another job for almost a year now. my hometown literally has no jobs that will take me because I'm 'over qualified' due to going to college and university apparently.)
I'm extremely thankful to all those who have supported me while it's been running. you've all helped a lot.
So before the next charging period and after I've done these last rewards, unless something drastically changes with my number of supporters on there, I will be closing it down.
I may release cheap sketch zip files in future if anyone is interested. though I have to work out where/how to sell them other than someone emailing then paypal-ing me and me sending them the file.
If anyone has ANY suggestions on either how I can make my patreon more enticing (if i decide to take it up again in future) or how they think I should sell sketch packs, let me know!
https://www.patreon.com/masahiko
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A lion cub, of sordid mind,
Avoided all of Lion-kind;
Fond of applause, he sought the feasts,
Of vulgar and ignoble beasts;
- John Gay (1685-1732) - The Lion and the Cub
I like to leave lower tiers (10 and under) to small rewards (sketch packs when I post them, art videos when I post them, and one, ONE sketch for the 10 dollar, not repeating)
But like at 20 dollars you get a bit of a nicer drawing, once, bc if I did it monthly I'd be losing money. After all, these are donations. Yes there are rewards, but they're still -donations,- not contacted commission work. I do give 10% off commissions to the $20 tier tho, because in order to get that $20 back in discounts they'd have to spend like 100-200 bucks a month in commissions and honestly if they did I'd be ok with that.
The only repeating art tier I do is $50 a month, bc honestly if anyone pays me 50 a month to help me focus on personal art, they've fucking earned a colored sketch a month.
Now my Patreon isn't exactly hip n happening yet either, but it's really not one of those overnight success things unless you're already that crazy busy popular outside Patreon. And $40 a month is $40 more each month than I'd be making if I didn't have Patreon.
Anyway, I'd honestly really say not to shut it down! Look at some other artist's Patreon pages and see what their rewards are. You definitely work too much for yours, though! It's supposed to give you more time to work on personal art, not take away from it! So def rethink your rewards so that there's actually -less- work instead of more work.
I think what i'm doing now just has be risking getting a bit burnt out. I tried to make the tiers kind of match my commission prices for the art rewards... but then i've realised they're basically buying a commission each month and then getting free stuff too...
I think my main problem is... I have no idea how to encourage people to pledge, or even interact with me really xD I always see these artists whose followers all talk to them a lot and leave loads of comments and my sutff it's like... the occasional tumble weed passing through leaves a message xD
I did have a look around at other's stuff before I made mine but idk I think i just feel people wont come unless you offer them art xD
I really wanna get started on my own comic but I'm really poop at coming up with stories so I have no idea when i'm going to get to that. I mean I have a vague idea of a theme but no idea how to flesh that out really.
also ugh same i read so much fanfiction i'm pretty sure i'm actually read all the good harry potter fics on fanfiction.net and have now moved on to AO3 xD i can't eat dinner without reading fanfiction my life is tragic xDD