Patreon?
8 years ago
I've seriously been concidering this for awhile now and not exactly sure how to set up a Patreon account. I love posting my art and would love to do more detailed works and commissions. It would also helpful to be more productive with defined deadlines and the added income to pay for more supplies!
I would offer previews of upcoming works and commission slots with a monthly commission offer for people.
Not sure what else to do if anyone can offer any advice on what they would like to see
I would offer previews of upcoming works and commission slots with a monthly commission offer for people.
Not sure what else to do if anyone can offer any advice on what they would like to see
If you're just going to have it be purely for straight artwork though, my recommendation would be to make tiers based on accessibility, with the lowest tiers granting the most basic access. For example...
$1 a month - patrons can see all of your finished works
$3 a month - patrons can not only see the finished projects, but the sketching/inking phases of all of your pieces
$5 a month - patrons can vote on potential content
$15 a month - patrons receive a single character sketch
Now obviously, you don't have to go with this example exactly, but this will hopefully give you an idea of what you can offer for your Patreon page,
Oh and one more thing, if you do make a Patreon page, seriously consider doing your artwork as a "timed-exclusive" based posting system. I say this because some of the people that only posted exclusively to Patreon, didn't tend to do that well for their Patreon pages; either because people boycotted their pages or just flat-out set up a fake Patreon page themselves and pledged to other pages without having paid anything to the artists that they were supporting.
It's gotten a lot better now though, what with Patreon instituting safeguards to better protect creators from "faux patrons", but it's still something to lookout for.
Anyway, I hope what I had to say helps and I wish you all the best on your latest venture. =3