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Info - some minor changes
🕑 Added 2025-05-05 23:15:37 +0000 UTCHello dear patrons, hope you’re having a nice day so far!
Here comes an info post regarding some minor changes we will make/have made to our Patreon.
We have decided to remove the Bronze tier, as we have seen for a long while now that no one becomes a member there. 100% of the times someone subscribes to the bronze tier, 5 minutes pass and then they upgrade, so we see no reason to have it as an option, especially when we have the mystery box as well as a cheaper tier option. The tier benefits listed there have now been moved into the Silver tier description.
The mystery box will also get some changes. We will still have it as a tier and we will still do the monthly mystery box post, but from now on it will not be as complex as before. Previously we have posted several items in one or more boxes and with that we spend a lot of time making 4-5-6 and so on different items for the box instead of focusing and spending time making quality posts for the regular weekly posts, so from now on we will make the boxes more simple. Considering the price for the sub on the tier we think this is fair. The boxes will still contain the same things and the quality of the item(s) will not decrease, but it will not be as big as before.
After a lot of brainstorming and discussions between the two of us, we have decided to remove the commission option from the gold tier, the one with the full artwork. All the other commission options such as tack, horse portrait etc. will still be there, but not the full artwork. The reason for this is because Cath no longer feel comfortable making these kinds of artworks and that creates a huge pressure, and Cath doesn’t feel comfortable dumping the «burden» on Lucia alone either, so that’s why that decision was made.
Instead of the artwork commission, we will replace it with offering an annual brush pack commission, a brush pack containing 5 custom brushes of your own wish.
We have noticed that you’re not as excited as you used to get when getting items from us (items as in tack etc.), which we totally understand since after several years of posting hundreds of items it will eventually get a bit old, for us too, especially since they’re not getting used as much as we would like to see, so therefore we have decided to tone down the item making and rather focus on other things, like tutorials, tips and tricks and especially brush packs for example, as we have seen you appreciate those. We would also love to hear about suggestions on what other things you want us to post more of (we love suggestions btw). Do not worry tho, items will still be posted, just not as rapid as before.
Another option to the tack items could also be to just post greyscales instead of a lot of swatches (and include a psd file). That gives you more creative freedom with the items and saves us a lot of time. Making swatches is very time consuming and it steals time we could have spent focusing on other things.
A lastly just a friendly reminder; you as patrons are in charge of cashing in both your commissions but also the one-on-one tutorials, for those of you who have these benefits. It's up to you when you want to claim your commissions as long as you do it before the end of the year, but we will not reach out to every patron in private to remind you to claim them. We can now and then send out friendly reminders in the common chats on discord!
If you strongly disagree to one or more of these changes, we are here to listen, so don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any concerns.
We would also love to hear what you think of these changes in general, so feel free to either comment here on Patreon or on discord what you think!
A part from this, we just want to let you know we are still working on the point system that we have talked about earlier, but it’s a lot of preparations and when the both of us have been sick and have experienced other obstacles irl unfortunately it will take some time. Just letting you guys know that it’s still happening and we haven't forgotten about it, we just don’t know exactly when yet. We will keep you posted!
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