When the voting happens, will votes be weighted towards those who donated? Should people submit character preferences when tipping? Or, since this is more like a form of patronage than direct commissions, would donors be simply trusting you to make good and worthwhile art regardless of the character(s) you choose?

I'm fine with any of the above, to be clear; just trying to clarify.

It won't be weighted based on size of the tip, since it would kinda defeat my primary purpose for these commissions, providing those that cannot afford commissions with an opportunity to put money towards specific content they wish to see.

Someone putting a large sum of money towards the tip voting would be treated as an act of generosity for those who can't afford them, and the vote would be put up. If you have enough money to weigh the tip jar in your favor, and have a specific thing you want to see, you're better off withholding it and just waiting for a commission.

Donors would be trusting me to make good and worthwhile art, and the art would be consistent with the quality of a normal commission (I'd prolly be doing them mostly in the clean digital style, maybe occassionally watercolor).

The quality will likely be a bit higher, since these don't have a guaranteed commission type (graphite, dig painting, watercolor), thus leaving me with more room to experiment and improve.

Though to be clear, I won't be choosing the characters, not the final decision anyway. I'll pick a few characters of different types, say, Sly Cooper, Pangoro, Guilmon, King Kazma, and then place them up for a vote on which one it'll be.

I haven't totally decided on how I'll narrow down the characters yet, whether to go with more creative freedom and just ask for a general domain (pokemon, digimon, RPG) or ask for recommendations from the community first so I can look around at designs before I put up the poll.

This is really cool dude, I quite like it. This gives you an opportunity to freely express your own artwork while also having the community have a say without knocking anyone out. Essentially people can commission an idea from you whenever they want even if it's much more generalized? I have so many suggestions you could try out as you know you are absolutely stellar at every piece of artwork you create my friend.

Honestly I'm not sure of the financial return afforded by this kind of thing, but good luck with it. I notice that - at the mention of you actually seeing some kind of financial recompense for your artwork - suddenly the comments are few and far between.

I'm doubtful of the true return afforded by Patreon at all tbh. From someone thinking about starting to do artwork commissions: have you had much financial return for your work?

Yeah, that's why I'm giving a little incentive lol.

I'm guessing Patreon ultimately works if so many artists are paywalling behind it, and honestly I think it's a great idea for artists to be supported for original content (consider me the black sheep I guess) but I personally would rather rely on commissions for income and just keep my content public, at least for the time being. May change once my following gets massive and commissions start being a bit too high demand for me.

I've personally had a great deal of return for commissions, and usually YCH's, though I'll explain that further on your comment in the other journal.

Just before steam sales? Hm... not good timing specially cuz i wanted something from you but i save money for games

Lol why did you comment this on the tip jar journal? XD

And it's all good, I open then monthly

oh, shit... cuz i opened both but replied on the wrong one

Baha tis all good. But yeah I open monthly so you can enjoy the sale and enjoy art then. Time will hopefully only improve my quality lol