Basic tier 3➜5 $ for new patrons in November.
Don’t worry. If you are a patron already or join before November, you can stay in with 3 $/month! If you leave, you then need to join with 5 $ if you come back.
Idk why I feel like an asshat for doing this.
Why:
I’ve been charging 3 $ since I started on Patreon in 2018. I think my art has been worth more for a while, but I never got around to charging more. I’ve been getting steady 2000 $/month for the last two years. I’m very grateful for all of this, and 2k from my own art is worth more than 4k from working for someone else. With all monthly expenses paid, I always still had some left over, so I didn’t feel anxious about it.
However, I’m just about to buy our first house with my partner. There’s a lot of renovation needed, and as you all know, the cost of living and inflation have skyrocketed lately. So, I think I need to grow beyond that 2k, and rising the base price is the first step I'm going to take.
I’m also planning on giving more benefits for higher tier patrons, more on that later. 😘
Comments (13)
Quick question, the price hike is only for the base tier right? What about the other tiers?
Well, the other tiers don’t really have any benefits at the moment. 😅 I think I’ll remove the 1 $ tier since it includes nothing, Base tier is 5 $ and 10 $ tier gets WIP previews, or something like that. I might figure out something extra for the higher tiers, not sure.
When I joined I was already surprised how cheap your tiers were. I mean this is top quality content here.
Whatever you need to be able to keep making amazing content is reasonable
Believe me when I say you're worth the price increase. I swear if you did commissions, I'd be chomping at the bit to get one... or a dozen
Well. This won't affect me. But yeah always glad to see more of your work.
Maybe it soon will, I’m planning on giving the 10 $ tier some work in progress -previews at least! Thank you for your continued generous pledge 🥰
Congratulations on the house! I think even more important than quality, your consistency more than warrants a hike to your base income. Lots of peeps charge more and then don't put out jack for half a year. I just have one question: You got a tier I can buy into to find an affordable house too?
Ikr? I’ve supported some artists who somehow manage to make more even though they almost never post content. 😅 I guess mlp art has lost most of the traction it once had, that’s probably part of it. Can’t help you with affordable housing I’m afraid, but thank you very much! 😘
I completely understand that. Good luck on your future endeavors.
Thank you!
Your arts amazing and hey everything's a bit more expensive lately, so ya gotta cover those costs. I do some home refurbishing and even the cost of lumber has been volatile lately, so nothing wrong with setting yourself up with a bit more windfall for your new home. Speaking of which, congrats on the new home!
Thank you very much! Heating will be the biggest money sink (I hope). Right now, the house heats up with wood pellet fuel (not very sustainable, especially since much of it apparently comes from Russia), and moving to geothermal heat pump will be crazy expensive 🥵