Late Presents (Patreon)

Woo, that wasn't quite a Christmas present, was it? :V

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Tried to get these out last month at Christmas as a little surprise present, but honestly I just put way too much work into... a uh.. few specific pieces here. So instead of a small bonus Christmas update, you just get a larger January update.

IMPORTANT: There are some changes coming to the campaign. I'll just put my thoughts here and see what you guys think, these are still early in development so feedback will be helpful.

I'm considering adjusting my tiers a bit, I think the suggestion box idea is working out great but I'd like to specifically limit the $3 tier to single image ideas. The sequence suggestions in the $3 tier tend to be a bit daunting for how many of you there are.

There's also two other problems: no one is suggesting ideas that neatly fit into a single image because they are hoping they'll get picked for a sequence, and very few people suggest finishing old images (which was a goal with the original changes, I was hoping people would ask me to finish more stuff).

I'd like to figure out a way to move sequences to their own tier entirely, and perhaps do the same with color suggestions so people at a certain tier can put in requests to finish old pics in addition to suggesting a single sketch image from the lower tiers. I might also throw a super high speedpaint tier to bring those back in occasionally.

For sequences multiple people could suggest the same thing to get me to add more to it, same with finished pictures, a few people could get together and request a color an old sequence.

I was also considering raising the base suggestion tier up to $5 since I honestly have trouble keeping up with the suggestions at $3, but I don't know how well that'd go over and it's one of the things I thought I'd check general sentiment on.

Always having a backlog of requests that just very slowly gets worked through may just be a better option than raising the tier level, but I'm open to any ideas right now.

I also know people want to bring polls and the adventure story back so I'm trying to think how I'm going to fit those back in. I may just do more spur of the moment type things. The biggest problem I was having with the adventure is that while it's fun to participate in the direction, as the artist I find it very hard to get into a flow when I come back to a pic like that with that many breaks. I tend to work sequences or story based stuff all at once and sometimes out of order, so having to work linearly with no idea where the little story is going can be a bit difficult for me. These are problems I have to solve though, and it might mean more thought out directions and less frequent or impactful votes.

I'm interested to hear other peoples thoughts on this stuff before I start making changes though.

Let me know what you think of the ideas (and the art) in the comments!

Reminder to get in your request if you're at the $3 tier!