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Patreon Launch Party – Your thoughts? Comments please :)
8 years ago
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Hey all,
UPDATE : You can now track the progress of various works and check my queue on my Trello, here.
So with a few more weeks down and finding myself sustainably doing the art I love to do, my mind keeps turning to Patreon.
This won't be a few weeks yet. I'm determined to pace myself, and I still have a few old commissions to finish off. I can't thank those who ordered commissions from me enough for being so patient and understanding about the illness, so I'll be getting all of those pieces done to my satisfaction (and theirs!) before moving forward.
But I'd love your input on what I'm considering for my Patreon Launch.
Ongoing, my 'rewards' for Patreon are going to feature 'fox tokens' in addition to little rewards you get with each tier. Fox Tokens can be traded in for custom artwork, and you get a different number depending on how much you donate each month. (E.g. 2 Fox Tokens = A lineart, 6 Fox Tokens = Shaded Color / Speedpaint and so on). It's just a way for me to have a stable income, so I can commit more and more time to my artwork, whilst allowing my supporters to get commissions over time.
But I want to launch with a bang :) I'm hella new to Livestreaming, but I'm enjoying it, and I think it's a great opportunity to properly share my return with you all, my supporters, the people who made 'Coming Back' a big deal to me.
So, here are some of the ideas I've had. Like them ? Think they need adjusting ? Got an idea of your own ? Please comment away :)
[*] Patreon Launch Day Livestream – Starting a short while before the Patreon launches, and continuing for a few hours after, I'll be livestreaming on Picarto.
[*] First Supporter Livestream Sketches – I've never before taken start-to-finish commissions over Live-stream, but to the first 3 supporters on Patreon I will livestream a custom sketch. I will probably continue to sketch for subsequent supporters, but the guaranteed slots will be a limited first-come-first-serve.
[*] Since the transformations at the TF Clinic were a big turning point for me, stepping out of idle doodling into full detail sequences, I feel like they should be a part of this. So, how about the first page of a unique launch-day patrons-only comic, featuring Bree's first post-transformation sexual encounter with a human ?
Please comment away. Even if I feel I can't follow your suggestion for whatever reason, it's great to hear what you all would like to see on my Launch.
Thanks all
UPDATE : You can now track the progress of various works and check my queue on my Trello, here.
So with a few more weeks down and finding myself sustainably doing the art I love to do, my mind keeps turning to Patreon.
This won't be a few weeks yet. I'm determined to pace myself, and I still have a few old commissions to finish off. I can't thank those who ordered commissions from me enough for being so patient and understanding about the illness, so I'll be getting all of those pieces done to my satisfaction (and theirs!) before moving forward.
But I'd love your input on what I'm considering for my Patreon Launch.
Ongoing, my 'rewards' for Patreon are going to feature 'fox tokens' in addition to little rewards you get with each tier. Fox Tokens can be traded in for custom artwork, and you get a different number depending on how much you donate each month. (E.g. 2 Fox Tokens = A lineart, 6 Fox Tokens = Shaded Color / Speedpaint and so on). It's just a way for me to have a stable income, so I can commit more and more time to my artwork, whilst allowing my supporters to get commissions over time.
But I want to launch with a bang :) I'm hella new to Livestreaming, but I'm enjoying it, and I think it's a great opportunity to properly share my return with you all, my supporters, the people who made 'Coming Back' a big deal to me.
So, here are some of the ideas I've had. Like them ? Think they need adjusting ? Got an idea of your own ? Please comment away :)
[*] Patreon Launch Day Livestream – Starting a short while before the Patreon launches, and continuing for a few hours after, I'll be livestreaming on Picarto.
[*] First Supporter Livestream Sketches – I've never before taken start-to-finish commissions over Live-stream, but to the first 3 supporters on Patreon I will livestream a custom sketch. I will probably continue to sketch for subsequent supporters, but the guaranteed slots will be a limited first-come-first-serve.
[*] Since the transformations at the TF Clinic were a big turning point for me, stepping out of idle doodling into full detail sequences, I feel like they should be a part of this. So, how about the first page of a unique launch-day patrons-only comic, featuring Bree's first post-transformation sexual encounter with a human ?
Please comment away. Even if I feel I can't follow your suggestion for whatever reason, it's great to hear what you all would like to see on my Launch.
Thanks all
More livestreaming is always nice to see so looking forward to that. I know you have some other interesting perks planned so should be interesting to see where they go from here. Oooh we haven't seen an urbanvixen TF sequence yet, Would totally support seeing how you would do that :D
I like the idea of some post TF journals of the patients of the clinic, Slice of life stuff could be fun to see. Other than that it would be cool to have say a Telegram group where Patreons can chat and shoot the breeze but then again it may not be needed?
Looking forward to seeing what comes next though :D
I'd like to keep this particular chat thread focused on the Launch Event if possible. There's lots to do and chewing through it all at once likely to get unneccessarily messy :)
To answer some of your questions though -
- There are a variety of rewards at different tiers as well as Fox Tokens. I'll announce them later, once I've tweaked and confirmed them.
- Yes, I will keep track of the Fox Tokens but so will Patreon and it'll be nice n simple. Patrons should never be in doubt of how many tokens they have, but I'll have a backup document just in case they want to double-check. I'll hold off explaining it just here - Patreon's format makes it nice and easy to see, but explaining it in Wall O Text isn't as clean and clear. So, TBA
- It will be replacing the TF Clinic one, which was sadly never used due to the illness. But TF Clinic will be a part of it. TBA
- TF Clinic extras will be unlocked through 'Goals' rather than 'Rewards', but yes there are plans there. TBA
Unfortunately, I am not able to support the internet toll lanes.
Unfortunately I'm in no financial state to donate to anyone's Patreon at the moment (or for a foreseeable future), though yours would certainly be worth it.
And will the TF Clinic still be visible to non-patrons? Because I really loved it. In fact, it's been the main reason I periodically checked this account every couple of months in a faint hope of you still being alive to return to art, since your old journal messages made me suspect the worst...
Yes, I plan to never lock away all my art behind a 'pay wall'. So sequences will be publically available. But, that said, I do need to reward my Patrons and encourage people to support me doing more of them, so it may be that some sequences are Patron-only, while others are public... or sequences only become available to the public much later ? It's not something I've pinned down yet, but I'll try to find a balance.
Also worth considering whether you want to deliver a running commentary or just have some background music playing while you draw.
If you do any "throwaway" warm-up sketches, maybe take requests from the people who are watching the stream? I.e. you could encourage people to make suggestions without actually making any promises that you'll draw their particular idea. (Maybe limit suggestions to one or two words, e.g. "owl" or "otter".)
Anyway, it sounds good, and I'll definitely try to tune in :)