Proposed changes to Requests after feedback (Patreon)

After finishing a bit of ink work, I finished reading up all the comments and ideas, feedback, etc on the Request changes post. If you commented, I definitely read it! Thank you all for giving in your few cents.

Ultimately, the comments I got boiled down to one of three main attitudes:

1. Some folks just want to see me draw/don’t care what it is, as long as I enjoy it

2. Some are more motivated by the personalized feel of the requests, and attempted fairness to each patron

3. And the rest were largely wanting to see more story/OC/world ideas including but not limited to SFW content.

Obviously, these overlap at times and are a broad summary, but they helped me identify what I don’t like about the current system. Often when I open the request form, I try to prioritize people who have not gotten a request at all, as opposed to picking based on content first. I think this is partly what’s leading to my ‘never-ending’ feel, despite liking a lot of the resulting ideas and pictures.

What I’m trying to create is a simpler form, that lets me focus on picking ideas so that when I’m in the mood for a specific thing, I can go down the choice path and arrive at a request naturally. The form would start with something like this as Question 1:

Pick the answer that best describes your request:

I want to see Rule34 work and fan art.

I want more simple and/or fun art of your OCs.

I want to see more canon OC work, world building and character-driven sketches.

And following that, would be a question that helps that choice path by narrowing it down into categories that make sense, at least to me:

Pick the category that you think best fits:

This request is male-focused

Female-focused

An act, interaction or combination of the two

These questions would be the same regardless if ultimately the request is SFW or not, but in my mind, helps me pick as sometimes I’m in a mood for a particular style of character or subject, and waiting until the end to hear the full description, as it is now, of the request makes it more difficult. Minor additional questions may be like:

Name of Character-

Reliable reference link or source material title for me to Google-

Description of request-

(In the event of things like canon work where the content may be less known, since only I know a lot of it, or the purpose is to learn more, then that will have its’ own question or space format)

And so on... this isn’t a comprehensive list, but just an idea for more feedback. The form wouldn’t be any longer than it is now. The difference is in how it’s structured, and that it’s weighted more towards my own content and stories, since based on feedback, that’s what a lot of you are here for, whether it’s SFW or not, while still leaving room for fan art/R34 that we also enjoy.

It will still have an individual feel, but offer more substantial, lasting value artwork from me, hopefully to the pleasure of both of us. I will use lifetime pledges and time-since-last-request as a “best guesstimate” as to when I can try to accommodate or to use it as a tiebreaker, instead of a main deciding, governing factor.

So.. let me know what you all think of something like this. Nothing is set in stone or officially changed yet, this is just another round of change ideas. I’d like to hear it, or of anything about this that I might’ve missed! Mahalo for your patience!