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3 years ago
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Patreon
It's been just over two years now since I first started a Patreon account and while the support has only come from a few, I have greatly appreciated it. After all this time I've finally decided that it's time I reworked my tiers and reworded a bunch of stuff.
Usually, I aim to make sketches posts every couple of weeks on Patreon and originally I had intended to do timelapses and other stuff for higher tiers every so often, but considering that was only ever picked up once and it took me a while to prepare any of that stuff, I've decided I'm going to discontinue the higher tiers.
So now there will only be two tiers. A £1 tier and a £5 tier, both of which will remain as they are;
- The £1 tier will continue to have access to all sketches, past and future, same as now.
- The £5 tier will continue to be there mostly for people who want to be more generous with their contributions and for access to the Discord server where post announcements are made. This tier will continue to provide a 10% discount on commissions too. I also accept reasonable drawing requests from people on this tier.
Besides discontinuing the higher tiers, not much will change on my Patreon for now besides some text; I intend to update the imagery there at some point but it's not a priority. If there ever was serious interest from people for pricier tiers, I might consider doing something again, but for the foreseeable future there isn't much point to those tiers.
Comissions
The pricing on my commissions is due to be changed and technically will be "rising", but for people outside the UK, this should make less difference than it normally would have because of the recent devaluing of GBP, which has made it be pretty close to USD and the Euro.
I don't know exactly when I'll make this change, but definitely want to do it by the end of the year. I don't expect GBP to go up to what it was so soon but who knows. Economy is so abstracted and less about actual real-world things and more about social crap and "predictions", "anything" could happen I suppose.
Other thoughts
To keep this very short and minimal on the rant-side, we have been quite busy here and honestly I have just been so tired/sore that I am hardly ever doing any drawing at the moment. Lately I have had to push myself more than usual to work on my weekly sketching and it has mostly been happening at hours or days when the motivation had to be very forced.
I am just not being able to keep up with constantly setting up a workspace for drawing and then putting it all away, it's draining on top of the rest of my days to the point that, paired with the unpredictability of pain issues, I just end up disliking the activity too much and it has absolutely become the case that if there isn't a real reason to be doing some drawing like finishing a commission, posting sketches, or drawing together with someone, I will find it very difficult to get into it on most day.
One final thought is that I think I will no longer be actively posting on Twitter. Truthfully, I have felt little benefit from it and while maybe some people discovered me through Twitter, I can't imagine it was a lot of people in all honesty. I don't like how age ratings work for posts and PostyBirb has never really seemed to work properly with said ratings when making new posts through it. The other thing is that I find the platform confusing and difficult to navigate and for the most part it's just made me spend more time on making posts than I would otherwise have, not to mention it's difficult to find anything I'm interested in from other people; I just have better places to search I suppose, including here. I also don't like how Twitter likes to push certain topics on me as a user, but I guess a lot of things are that way these days.
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It's been just over two years now since I first started a Patreon account and while the support has only come from a few, I have greatly appreciated it. After all this time I've finally decided that it's time I reworked my tiers and reworded a bunch of stuff.
Usually, I aim to make sketches posts every couple of weeks on Patreon and originally I had intended to do timelapses and other stuff for higher tiers every so often, but considering that was only ever picked up once and it took me a while to prepare any of that stuff, I've decided I'm going to discontinue the higher tiers.
So now there will only be two tiers. A £1 tier and a £5 tier, both of which will remain as they are;
- The £1 tier will continue to have access to all sketches, past and future, same as now.
- The £5 tier will continue to be there mostly for people who want to be more generous with their contributions and for access to the Discord server where post announcements are made. This tier will continue to provide a 10% discount on commissions too. I also accept reasonable drawing requests from people on this tier.
Besides discontinuing the higher tiers, not much will change on my Patreon for now besides some text; I intend to update the imagery there at some point but it's not a priority. If there ever was serious interest from people for pricier tiers, I might consider doing something again, but for the foreseeable future there isn't much point to those tiers.
Comissions
The pricing on my commissions is due to be changed and technically will be "rising", but for people outside the UK, this should make less difference than it normally would have because of the recent devaluing of GBP, which has made it be pretty close to USD and the Euro.
I don't know exactly when I'll make this change, but definitely want to do it by the end of the year. I don't expect GBP to go up to what it was so soon but who knows. Economy is so abstracted and less about actual real-world things and more about social crap and "predictions", "anything" could happen I suppose.
Other thoughts
To keep this very short and minimal on the rant-side, we have been quite busy here and honestly I have just been so tired/sore that I am hardly ever doing any drawing at the moment. Lately I have had to push myself more than usual to work on my weekly sketching and it has mostly been happening at hours or days when the motivation had to be very forced.
I am just not being able to keep up with constantly setting up a workspace for drawing and then putting it all away, it's draining on top of the rest of my days to the point that, paired with the unpredictability of pain issues, I just end up disliking the activity too much and it has absolutely become the case that if there isn't a real reason to be doing some drawing like finishing a commission, posting sketches, or drawing together with someone, I will find it very difficult to get into it on most day.
One final thought is that I think I will no longer be actively posting on Twitter. Truthfully, I have felt little benefit from it and while maybe some people discovered me through Twitter, I can't imagine it was a lot of people in all honesty. I don't like how age ratings work for posts and PostyBirb has never really seemed to work properly with said ratings when making new posts through it. The other thing is that I find the platform confusing and difficult to navigate and for the most part it's just made me spend more time on making posts than I would otherwise have, not to mention it's difficult to find anything I'm interested in from other people; I just have better places to search I suppose, including here. I also don't like how Twitter likes to push certain topics on me as a user, but I guess a lot of things are that way these days.
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