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April Update! +Patreon overhaul
🕑 Added 2017-04-03 23:52:36 +0000 UTC Hello everyone! I've got some larger updates for you all today! (I was going to post this on the 1st but... not the best day for serious announcements.)----
Rewards/Goals overhaul
Okay, so first off, I'm (slowly) moving forward on plans to re-vamp the reward structure here on my Patreon. I spent a long while wracking my brain for how to approach this, but it eventually led to the realization that it's really not all that complicated: at least in its current form, my Patreon page is a tip jar with benefits.
What's changing? Well to start with, I'm going to tweak the numbers on the current goals/milestones. It hasn't hit the milestone for monthly pictures pretty much since the start, and while I got into a pretty good rhythm of pictures every two months, that's entirely unofficial and messy and just... not how I want to be doing things. I want to be doing more pictures regardless, so I think what I'm going to do is throw that funding goal out the window and just do that. At least one picture per month if I can manage it, and I'll put some new funding goals in place that can make those pictures bigger, or open up options for a bigger request pool, stuff like that.
SO, tl;dr of that change is: I'll aim to work on a personal/Patreon piece once a month, with WIPs and early peeks for patrons to check out. In some cases, I'll take advantage of the new polling feature and let people submit requests and/or vote on ideas to work on next.
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SizeCon and high-resolution images
What else? SizeCon is coming up pretty quick - it'll be July 29th-30th, in New York - and I'm aiming to prepare some prints to sell at the event. Some of these will be updated/remade images I've made previously, re-rendered to full 300dpi printable glory. Some will possibly be made for printing from the start.
I plan to throw these into the rewards here as well, as high-resolution images. Depending on how well that works out - I haven't figured out yet how much that'll slow down my rendering process - high-res versions of some of my works might end up being a reward for the $3-5 mark, assuming I can do them monthly. Fingers crossed there!
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Current projects
Last but not least, I've still got one suggested/requested piece from last month, which I'm just working on finishing now (Momoe's maw PoV). And I've got a bit of an idea bouncing around for an April piece, inspired by Easter-egg hunting (I'll explain more on that later). Those should come soon, hopefully.
I've got various other hopes and plans, though I'm trying not to bite off more than I can chew, still! I've done that far too many times lately and I really want to make this keep working. I'll share more details soon on any other reward changes I come up with, my ultimate goal here is to streamline the whole thing and aim to make those $1+ pledges feel a little more meaningful overall.
