Tier updates (pt 2) (+ other stuff) (Patreon)

Just before there's any more reactions:

The proposed changes are not finalized, and even if they were, current patrons will not be affected, no matter what. I made the post about them to collect thoughts first.

The reason I'm looking into adjusting the tiers is because the scaling on them is weird / disproportionate, and I want to reduce the number of tiers I have (removing the NSFW/SFW split especially.) 

Current patrons would be grandfathered in, as I said. I have zero plans about requiring anyone currently to pay more. I still support the $1 tier from when this page first was founded (or I did until the last patron in it moved to another tier / withdrew).

If I do ultimately decide on a change, I may wait til around March to implement it at this point. I don't know.  I'm still looking into the price levels and may even opt to reduce certain tiers too. But, I've looked at some pages of friends who have half as many supporters, a similar model (even less content even), but the same level of earnings, and it makes me feel like maybe I'm not structuring my tiers correctly.

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On a similar note, some of you also might have seen some of my comments in the discord regarding me no longer wanting to draw fanart. The past week has not been kind to me, on top of getting sick I was feeling incredibly low and frustrated with my work. I have been dealing with burnout for most of 2019, with a few periods of me just ignoring it, but last week it was extremely bad.

I asked followers for answers and feedback about why I'm not growing, why things are stagnating for me, how can I improve, why most artist friends who come onto the scene skyrocket past me in terms of reach in the span of a month, and one thing that was resounding was my art isn't "interesting," that it's fairly tame or generic.

They're fuckin' right, it's something that's been bothering me for a long while, that I don't actually use my characters for much. It used to be way more interesting, and I would do more with characterization and the like (I miss Tumblr).

Now that my sickness is all but gone, I have plans as I get back into the swing of drawing art, particularly I want to make far more OC driven content, and make it actually characterizing rather than mostly just generic pinups. This might mean things like more comics, more sketches, and I'm likely going to bring back asks via CuriousCat and Twitter.

Me wanting to draw less fanart is me wanting to prioritize going back to things that I used to like about doing art. Fanart always has felt more like just trying to appeal to the audience to me with little else in substance. It felt like going through the motions to just try and fish for likes / notes, and even when I was putting forth and trying to push myself technically, it felt soulless to make.

So, for those in the discord who saw sick-me lamenting in a stupor and commenting that I'm going to cut back on fanart, this is what I meant. I'm going to get more into things that are interesting and interest me, and I think that I will be a lot happier doing this kinda stuff, as do I think most supporters and followers.

This doesn't mean I'm not going to do fanart ever, and it doesn't mean I'm not going to finish other projects (Curly Brace Hacked 3 is still getting made.) But in 2020 I'm going to learn how to love my art again.