Should I continue the raffle?

I do like the raffles. But you do you

As a raffle winner I felt honoured to win, it was a great experience to win a raffle! You were amazing, the entire process was great! I think offering a raffle is fantastic, but, if it's hurting your bottom line that's not good. I want you to be successful and make as much as you can off your work. What about two raffles, alternating every month? One for OCs and one for fan art? So one raffle would have the winner have their OC drawn and the next month the winner could select an existing character for you to draw?

I'd say keep doing the raffle, they feel nice to see even if i haven't won one yet but feels nice to maybe have a chance to see one of my characters in your style, but i can understand if you decide to stop them completely or do them less frequently, either way will be more than happy to see whatever art you do in the end. Though have also seen some people do milestone rewards or something, but not sure what your thoughts would be on it.

I think doing the raffle isn't a bad thing! But if people are complaining about it, maybe it could only be every other month to compensate?

Oh yeah continue mate.

Honestly it adds variety to your content.

Yes please

I'm back after a while, but honestly you do what you want to do. I'm not against raffles, but I can understand why people are against them. In the end, what matters is that you draw the content you want to draw

I much prefer the raffle and intend to support you as long as you can! Just keep doing what you're doing and I'll be there for it!

I like the raffle but I understand the sentiment of seeing the fanarts each month, either way I’m sticking around because your art is just so good!!

I would love to see you with a raffle! But I would also feel bad if I got one when I couldn't afford a commission.

I liked the raffle. For long time supporters its a dream to get a character done in your style. But i dont want you losing revenue

That's a shame you've lost some supporters because of this. The prospect of getting a character drawn by you was a massive pull for me in all honesty. Maybe in the future raffles could come back or you could open commissions. The choice is yours of course. :)

It's sad to see cause I like the raffles. It's a lightning's worth of chance to get to be the winner but the art that comes out is lovely stuff no matter what and it's friggin free so yeah. If anything, I'll stick around whether or not it still goes on. (At most I still shall pray for the one day I see you do Stella from Helluva Boss ;~; seriously, I really wanna see her in your style so badly, but it's fine if it may never happen due to popularity differences, but not only that cause I still love what you put out in the end no matter what it is!)

Personally, I like your work enough in any case that I think I'll be supporting your work no matter what you're doing! The possibility of getting my characters drawn by you though definitely has my interest, whether by raffle or by commission, and I do like seeing you branch out! However, I can also see where some people can be frustrated with the nature of raffles and may have disappointed expectations when subscribed to your Patreon expecting more fanart. If you do continue raffles, it would be best to properly integrate it as a Patreon reward, or start up commissions rather than have it as a off-time event. Whatever the case, you'll have a lot of interest in your work either way, and it's down to what feels like it best inspires your creativity!

I was hopeful for the raffle, but I can understand it not appealing to fans who don't have characters of their own they are hoping to see you draw

Most important is your will. My opinion is less frequently raffle, once in a 2 or more months.

As I said in the chat for me you can do whatever you like, if you want to continue th raffle then continue it, you want to have people suggest one OC then do it, you want to go back and do pokemon fusion then do it... in the end, at least for me, what is important is what you want to do

I think it'd be better if they were more of an occasional thing

I quite enjoyed the raffle idea, at the end of the day it's your decision and I'll happily support you either way, but my vote is to keep the raffles!

Yes please, moar raffle!

I'm all for raffles to continue. It's a fun way for people to get art from you since you don't take commissions, and I like seeing the different OCs drawn in your style, just like with fanart characters!

I think they're nice to have around! Especially for people who would love to get art done of their character from you but can't since you no longer do commissions. So this raffle has been great because it's an opportunity to get art done by you.

Yeah, as nice as it would be to eventually get picked for a raffle, I can see how a lot of folks would prefer more fanart, but drawing some different things put forward by patrons helps you branch out a little. I personally prefer continuing the raffles, but... Do what you feel is best, though!

Pretty much exactly what Joe Tomato said. I like them being around personally! I can't speak for everyone though. I'd love to tell you to do what gives you the most personal fulfillment creatively, but I know that doing this for a living makes things more complicated than that. If you feel you really have to change course for your well being, then by all means.

The raffle has the excitement of possibly getting picked, but it can backfire if some don't like the design or just frustration at not getting picked. I think the variety is nice! A lot of the same themes kept winning in the voting system (anything milf/mommy would gain more votes). I think with time things will stabilize, although if your financials get pinched too hard you could pause raffles.