Patreon Update! (Patreon)

Hello guys! hope your doing good!

I want to talk with you about a few changes I'm gonna be doing for patreon going onwards. please, at least read the part about those changes at the end of the post. I'll pot it in bold letters so it's easier to find.

First of all an explanation. Last year, other people and I have some problems with our Payoneer accounts, I don't remember what was the deal about to be fair (something about changing banks I think), but as a result, my payments for almost two months were frozen, all my patreon and my saving were on that account.

So in order to have money for food rent and stuff, I had to open commissions. and I took a lot of spots, like A LOT. I've been working on them since last year, and even if I'm almost done, i still have to finish like 6 full color commissions, plus other types of commissions I had to open too. I've been working non stop since last year and that includes stuff I do for patreon. This is, at the end of the day, my major source of income and as such I want to make Shure you guys are properly rewarded.

The solution I saw was returning to the monthly rewards, is what it makes sense to me. You pay a monthly subscription, you get a monthly reward. Most of the accounts I follow, what they offer is a monthly character pack, so i replicated that and give priority to those rewards. between the commissions and those pack I decided that the comic should wait until I free some of my workload, since I didn't wanted to rush my own comic.

But here's the thing. Monthly reward packs get little to none response for part of the patreons, and it's a little discouraging working on this big rewards and get no feedback. Instead i get comments about "where's the comic? new comic page when? it's been too long, where's the comic?" like all the time, from every page I have. 

Don't get me wrong please, I understand, I don't feel like I'm being rushed or something like that, if anything you guys have been very patience and understanding of my situation. You're just asking for the content you want, and that's what I need right now. 

I need to know what you guys expect from this page so I don't feel like I'm wasting my time working on an image pack, when you guys really just want to see is the comic. If I ask for feedback, is because I need feedback. Right now, what I want is to improve my workflow, so I can finish things faster and give me some time to rest and enjoy myself a little cause trust me, this last year have been really damaging to me. stop is just not an option for me. I want to improve in how I do things, so I'm not affected by this situation again in the future. 

So what I'm gonna do onwards?

FIRST of all, Forest Hunt and Lord of Dawn are priority one. Pages will start coming again next month and they're gonna be my main focus on this patreon.

SECOND. I'm gonna stop working on monthly reward packs. I'll still do character packs, I'll make the polls and ask for your suggestions, but they won't be monthly. Character Packs will come out wherever they're done, they'll be my third priority until I finish with my commissions and release some workload out of my shoulders.

I also want to work on the discord channel, give a little more life, but I need time for that and honestly it's difficult for me to run a discord myself, since I'm usually working all the time. So that would have to wait for me to either free some time or find someone who can manage the channel properly for me. Patreon it's making changes to it's layout it seems, and i think it would be a nice time to dedicate some time to give this page a new fresh look, but again, it will depend of my free time to do that.

Lastly I would like if you guys engage a little more with the content, at least let me know if you liked the page or the art piece cause I've been feeling really down lately with my work, sometimes i feel it's boring or uninteresting because people barely say something to me about it. you don't have to force yourself to do it, but yeah, It's nice when people compliment the thing you've been working on for an entire week you know? more now when all this AI bullshit and NFT crap has been plaguing the art discourse lately. wish I could say is not affecting me as much as it does.

Please tell me what do you think of the new changes, suggestions are always appreciated. Expect the WIPS of the next FH2 pages to come out sometime this week, I'm adding the dialogue so you guys at least can read them and I'm working already on the art of the first one. I'm finishing some extra images for the Death Wolf reward, I'll post it soon, when it's ready. And I'll let you know more of the Wolf link reward as soon as I have more to share.

I love you my beautiful pack, sorry if this was too long. It's been a theme that has been boiling inside me for quite some time and I wanted to let you guys know about it.

Thats all for now! thank you guys!