Patreon Updates Starting NEXT MONTH
Hi everyone, we’re making some additions and changes to the Patreon rewards starting NEXT MONTH! In the list below, I’ll outline the new stuff coming to each tier level:
Beans - $2
We’re adding a new segment to our streams called the Fan Art Five, where each week we’ll highlight five pieces of Drawfee-related fan art submitted by YOU! Starting at the very lowest tier, you’ll have access to a new discord channel for sending in your fan art specifically to be shown on stream. Be sure to include whatever socials you’d like us to shout out!
Porflings - $5
We’re bringing back a classic feature that has been absent for years: DRAWFFICE HOURS! At this tier, you’ll get access to a discord channel that opens once per month, and all of us hosts will be present to chat with y’all for about an hour! Timing of the Drawffice Hours will be announced at the start of each month, because we want to move the time around so supporters in different time zones have a chance to participate.
Room Full of Vampires - $15
Nothing specifically new for this tier, but you will of course gain access to the bonuses from the lower tiers to enjoy!
Book Club Initiates - $25
We’re making some changes to the way we do Draw Class; namely we’ll be focusing much more heavily on critique streams, since those tend to be the most popular with y’all and they’re fun for us to do as well. As a part of this change, we’re lowering the price to WATCH those streams live down to this tier! We think this will breathe some new life into the draw class chat, and let more people see how our critique streams typically operate. Win-win!
Can You Believe to Learn - $50
Since we’re lowering the price to watch our draw class streams, this tier is now reserved for actually SUBMITTING your work to be critiqued! We’re hoping this tier can be one that people will pop up to here and there whenever they’d like to submit a new piece for the stream. To facilitate this, we’ll make a new discord channel specifically for art critique submissions.
Doodle Drawficionados - $100
These two top tiers are where we’ve needed to make some changes to protect our own sanity. This tier was originally supposed to provide you with quick doodles, similar to what we would draw on a notecard at a convention. However, the amount of time and effort we’ve been devoting to these has been steadily increasing, and now they’re much more akin to full black-and-white commission pieces. In an effort to correct this, we’ve renamed the tier to DOODLE Drawficionados (as a reminder to us), and we’ll only be taking doodle requests in specific categories that each host chooses. Those will be as follows:
Nathan - Creatures (real/fictional/prehistoric)
Jacob - “Little Guy” versions of your OCs or favorite characters
Julia - Dramatically lit men, strange monsters, Kermit
Drawnnoisseurs - $500
Instead of a “spicy” tier, this tier is now where our previous style of commission will live. We’ve increased the price to better reflect the time we would typically spend on them, and you will be able to request anything you’d like from the host of your choice. Please be aware that these are still black-and-white drawings, and we will not be taking notes during the process. We hope that this change will make this type of reward more sustainable for us, as these drawings were occupying a larger portion of our time than we originally considered they would.
And that’s it for the changes! We hope you’re all excited for these and for more new stuff to come! If you have any questions, we’ll be talking more about this on stream tonight at 8:30pm ET!
Comments (18)
You all should do what you would be or look like as a Muppet
Will the PSDs be at the Book Club level or the Believe to Learn level?
I love all the updates! Thank you :)
Most of these seem perfectly reasonable (including the reminder to not overwork yourselves!), but having "pay us for a chance to showcase your fanart" as a tier sits a bit... strange with me. People making fanart are already offering up their time and skills to the community for free, and if it were my call I'd rather see the opportunity to submit art for consideration be made available to everyone rather than just those with money to spare (and I know $2 isn't a lot for many people, but I can see it being a barrier for some folks nonetheless). Don't have a good suggestion on a comparable perk to replace it with, but I trust that y'all would be able to come up with something
there's not a free patreon tier that gets you into the discord, is there?/gen because I think this might be for logistical reasons with the patreon discord. I don't see it as paying to have your fanart shown, no-one is losing anything at that tier because of it being a thing and they're not being charged specifically for that. I would imagine picking out fanart to shoutout is much less time consuming if you have it all in one place in the discord channel instead of having to forage through @s and dms, no?
Sad they didn't make the Spheal Team 5 tier
I rememer I did genuingly think it was kinda insane the amount of effort and time yall were putting in for the amount of money compared to the possible number of people thatd be able to acess that Tier lol, Im so glad yall are actually scaling back and putting more worth into protecting your sanity, time and wrists ToT
Yeah exactly!! The amount of commissions they had to catch up on each month was insane, no one should have to do that many alongside content creation drawings. I was starting to get worried so I’m glad yall are setting some clear changes in place.
Great changes, take care of yourselves out there!
I really hope these changes help💜 Will the top tiers still be one time only, or could you jump up a tier for a doodle/commission?
This was a good reminder to re-up my subscription to patreon! Hiya!
I'm not able to comment and/or participate as often these days, but I'm always glad to see anything y'all are doing. These seem like exciting changes for everyone.
Wut!! This is insanely cool. First because I'd love to have fan art shown to me. I love fan art so much!! Second because that will be the first Drawffice Hours I'll ever be around for (during one of those coming months hopefully; I'm in a timezone about 6hrs ahead of y'all so I catch up later on things like streams that happen while I'm asleep, it's really awesome that you're considering other time zones!!). And thirdly and most bigly because I'm really glad you're making considered changes to protect your health and well-being!! Kickass announcement, you made my evening.
Fellow Porflings, it's time to celebrate!! :D 🥳 🎉
fan art five sounds super fun, looking forward to see everyone's fan art every week!!!
Wouldn't be the same without Karina
Well, I hope none of us would want her to keep working despite her burnout just so everything stays the same
Yay to protecting your time and sanity!! That’s what all of us viewers want I think. Extremely exciting new rewards and I wish you all the best in this new era!! 🩷🩷🩷
