What sort of thing are you going to be doing on your Patreon?

I was thinking of getting it to be a way to actually have the time and funds to start my comic. Not having enough time is the reason why I havent yet.

While that makes sense, you need to have some sort of version of your comic available to begin with before people will want to start giving you money for it. People didn't give a single shit about my project until I started releasing pages and I still wouldn't necessarily consider my Patreon campaign successful (and that's only because I'm bad at marketing tbh, you will probably have a better time with that than me)

You MIGHT at most entice maybe $50 worth of people right now without a comic already being available, those being your biggest current supporters, (which is about how it worked with me when I started; you seem to have more friends than I do so I put your number a little higher than where I started) but you definitely need to have pages out there before you can expect Patreon to be a thing that works for you.

As for rewards, my own reward tiers include things I typically wouldn't have interest in sharing otherwise (like works in progress and concept art for characters/environment, sometimes I'll do timelapse videos if I remember, I also do drawn answers to questions I let people ask the characters sometimes) and those are only for people who pay a little more; people who give me a dollar only get to see pages earlier than the rest, and that's it.

I've also found it wise to do pauses between chapters and only release new pages to Patrons during those time periods. People who have money but haven't already been giving it to you will do so because they want to see the progression of your project sooner than later. Like I'm in the middle of a large, "I need to build a buffer and figure out what stuff looks like," kind of pause for my own comic and as soon as I announced that, Patreon like, lit up for me. So stopping every so often is good.

Basically, don't offer too much that'll distract from the main point of your Patreon (which is your comic) and passive rewards (works in progress, early access to things you were going to do anyway, access to stock elements) are just as valid and good as personalized custom art pieces. Like I do have two tiers where I basically offer "commissions" but those are only for people who're willing to give me $50 or $100 every month and I only give them the opportunity to grab that from me once every 3 months, because the main point of my Patreon is still my comic, and not commission work.

I DUNNO I hope that helped, this has been my experience as a webcomic author/artist on Patreon and what has worked so far. It's very trial and error.

Yeah. Thats what I was thinking, regarding the tier prizes. Ive began slightly working on the plot properly and the pacing of it and the way the characters speak but so far thats all Ive managed the time to do so far. This was more for future thinking because I really really cannot deal with the amount of commissions I have to take on in order to make even the slightest bit of money.

I completely understand that, believe me. You've actually experienced how backed up I've gotten in the past with commission work lmao it's hard.

You're starting in a good spot if that's where you are right now. I feel like whenever you get around to actually working on comic pages (and I would definitely suggest doing like, a test run of maybe an 8 page long short story, just for learning purposes) you will attract interest, and your Patreon will gradually catch on.

I dunno. Set one up; maybe start off with just offering up concept art/mini sketch comics like what I see you do on Twitter for now. It can't hurt.