I have a patreon , but sadly nothing ;w;

I have a Pateron. I've only had it for less than a month now. Its for my Lemonade Girls. I pretty much only have $1, and $5.oo pledges. I decided to keep it super simple and easy.

I only pledge to one person at the moment. My friend Ken Draw to help support their web comic, Cosmic Joke.

I have a Patreon for my webcomic, but it's mostly there in the sense of "Well I was doing all this work anyways, may as well set up a Patreon" tip jar than anything. I have a few milestone goals that if reached will do stuff like having me make a monthly wallpaper or start streams while I work on said comic...but overall I try to avoid offering a lot of personal rewards because I know for me I'd fall into the trap of spending all my time working on stuff for patrons that I'd end up not really doing the stuff for the comic. XD

Overall I say try to keep in mind how much work you feel comfortable pulling off reasonably. I've seen a lot of folks try to offer rewards only to burn themselves out because they are so busy scrambling to do the rewards that they end up not able to work on the project they started patreon for in the first place.

I offered a portrait service for $40 tier people but had an issue of someone leaving after the month was up so they treated it like a commission. So I closed that tier. My suggestion is keep the prizes limited.

I don't have a Patreon nor plan on ever using it. I simply never have enough money to pledge to all the artists I like, and if I were to treat myself to spending money on art, I'd rather buy a nice commission. However I think at least trying Patreon out might be a good idea. You have excellent work and a fanbase to work from. You're anything but trash. I mean, your work is worth it and in demand. If I wasn't an idiot, I wish I could buy more commissions from you. The one you did for me way back has actually been my cellphone background since day 1. :T

I pledge to a couple people myself. Mab and another comic artist.

I personally prefer when artists use Patreon in a less exclusive way. IE, when someone offers things to patron's early (access to art, comics, tutorials, sketches, adopts, commission slots, etc ) but doesn't stop posting those things to their normal sites. They may just post them to patreon 24 hours to 1 week ahead of time on Patreon. I also think offering things like raffles might be nice to keep people from just leaving after a month ( like they may do with commissions ). And there are milestone goals you can do, which don't have to be anything super crazy per-se ( Mab does a taco review every month because we reached the $300 goal.... I think that's what the goal was). The thing about Patreon is just being able to make sure you can stick to whatever goals you set.

I would support you where possible, so.

I have a patreon 0+<
BUt theres always that huge issue w/ fanbase. You kinda need a prettyyy large one to 'get away' with it in poor words...
So mines been just sitting there all pretty but empty, due to having a really small fanbase, and having to make the choice between 'maybe making money' and 'making money' through commissions. Time=Money and all that fun stuff.
But it's worth a try, or at least to set it up and find out how many people are interested!