Important: Permanent Patreon Changes
Hello everyone! So there's a lot to say here, so I'll dive in right away.
Here are the changes:
I will be posting about 5 quick Patreon-only sketch pages a week as the main Patreon-only reward
There will be no more Monthly Character Patreon Polls
in place of the polls there will be a Monthly Character Suggestion Thread, and I'll draw the suggested characters in my sketch pages (only one per person, only popular characters or my own OCs and no suggestions about posing or outfits)
The rest of the post is about the why this change happened, so you can skip it.
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The main reason for the change is that I always disliked polls for the following reasons:
most people won't see they character suggestions win a poll, so their suggestion was mostly for nothing
my art style works a lot better for lots of quick and simple drawings instead of one piece that takes longer
polls are surprisingly time consuming
doing alts is time consuming and unsatisfying
Coming to this realization, I decided that I'd rather focus my efforts more into delivering multiple Patreon-only sketches in a month instead of just one poll. This is content that I would be producing anyways as warmup or just for fun, so while it is a lot more content it is also a lot less pressure on me.
On top of this, I do like a lot doing sketch pages traditionally. I find that one of my biggest drives for creativity is just using different mediums and just letting stuff appear on page. I feel like this is a fun way to share my creative process with you guys while also giving you more content.
Adding a way for people to suggest popular characters or my OCs is also a fun way to make your suggestions feel actually meaningful instead of getting lost in a poll.
Another reason is that this Patreon, while a great support in my life, it is not nearly enough for me to go full time or focus a lot more energies into it long term. If that was the case, I'd have no problem doing one or more polls a month. I've been trying my best in these two years and a half, but something's gotta give. I do feel kinda guilty about the lack of content as of late, but things have been really pushing me hard lately and needed to size down some aspects of my life.
Just to be clear, the daily public posts and hi res art exclusive to patrons aren't going anywhere. This is mostly for the other content that I'm going to share with you patrons exclusively.
So there's that! Pretty big changes, and hopefully this will be for the better for everyone. If you have any feedback about this please let me know in the comments or in DMs