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I will be applying some changes here concerning Patron rewards for pledges starting from January 2018! I want to specify them here and now so people have time to think and accomodate with them. I will be reminding about them on December, so everyone remembers (in case they want to resign from pledging or move to a different tier).


1. I noticed most of poeple consider the 1$ tier as a tip jar, and I shall do it too. Along with the Patreon and paypal fee I really only get about 0,5$ for every 1$ pledged, sadly. And starting January the 1$ tier will also becomse a tip jar with just my deepest thanks for support.
It will however allow You to vote in all polls!
2. The current 1$ reward - sketches, wips and step by step arts will be moved to the 3$ tier. The 2K high res files will still be there.
So the 3$ tier will become somehow the basic pledge :)
3. The 'monthly sketch' for the 35$ tier will really become an ACTUAL SKETCH, no more linearts, but actual sketchy lines :) So be ready for no more detailed linearts. I will be posting some examples of the quality of the sketch before January so everyone can take their time deciding. I ope to enforce this change earlier than on new year too.
4. Changes to the 2 final highest tiers: they will be deleted in the last 1-2 days beofre new year and created anew.
The sketch pledge will start at 50$ (currently it just doesn't pay off for me) and this will give You sketches (Actual sketchy sketches, only for people who truly want to support me rather than just get art from me without having to wait in the queue or for a commission opening. Hence the price. Slots will be limited to the maximum amount of sketches I can make, so probably around 5-6.
The 50$ tier will work as follows: for the first month of support You will get a sketch portrait, second a halfbody and the third You will start getting a fullbody sketch. All the next consecutive months will be fullbodies. If You have a break in Your pledge, You won't be starting over, so You will resume as if You didn't quit.
5. The 100$ tier will be removed or replaced with a different thing. Possibly I will add the Patron vote suggestions there as well as access to all my adoptable bases (with the limit of one per month)

About poll voting:
All patrons get the same amount of votes, as I want all of my supporters to have equal rights in deciding what my art will be, no matter the pledge.

I dream of a day when people will become my Patrons to support my art mainly rather than for the pledge rewards - as some artist manage to do even without any rewards whatsoever ^^" So after a while I will probably delete personalized rewards (the thank You image and the sketch) completely to be able to focus on commissions :)

Thank You a whole lot for Your support and thanks for understanding in advance! I am really happy that slowly I am able to actually believe in making a living of freelancing :) You have my heart <3


Comments

ZePompom

Awww, that suck, for the $1 pledge, I wasn't aware there were so much fees so half of the pledge "vanish" :-( It'll probably make me reconsider my "give a little to many artist instead of a lot to very few artists" patreon politics :-(

Anonymous

Its a good and smart decision you make. I have no problems with "only" getting sketches now for the 35$ tier. I am intruiged to see how it will tzrn out. My bessings

furlana

i know it's quite sad, but well both Patreon and Paypal provide good service, so it's only fair for them to draw proper fees. But don't worry, luckily with Patreon it's more about quantity, over quality really. It's much better to have a lot of little Patrons than just a couple big ones :)

furlana

thanks very much dear! I do try to bring everyone best qualit of my stuff, but sometimes one has to also think about their own time put into work :) I can assure You that the sketches will be of great quality too! haha &lt;3

Anonymous

Would it make the 100 dollar pledge more attractive if the 35 dollar sketch was upgraded to black-and-white lineart?

furlana

The 100$ pledge is already full with 2/2 people and I barely can make it on time with 2 sketchs and 2 thank You images (which are way cheaper than my regular commissions if You count in all the extra things You get along with them), so it will remain the same :)