juggermelon
patreon
Major Updates (PLEASE READ)
🕑 Added 2019-08-30 03:38:30 +0000 UTCHello everyone! Let me start by saying thank you so much for pledging to me, it really means a lot! This is the most pledgers I've received so far, it really helps considering I rely on monthly payments and the such.
Over the course of the past two or so months, I have received quite a bit of pledgers! I massively appreciate it. However, I noticed a pressing issue concerning the pledges and such. More and more people have pledged to the $20 commission tier to the point where it's uh... it's become actually impossible for me to process so many images while juggling my ACTUAL commissions (my primary income) and my daily life within the span of a month. I started pretty small, so I was able to handle it for a few months no problem! As long as I processed all my other stuff in the beginning/middle of the month, and complete the Patreon commissions at the end of the month/beginning of the next month. But over time, I started facing some big issues ahaha.
First and foremost, I loooooove sketching. Your requests have been so much fun, and I very much appreciate getting to draw all these characters I've been wanting to draw, but have never been commissioned before Anyone who has come to my livestreams know that I can process sketches in a somewhat timely manner.
But what really slows me down is the coloring.
I enjoy coloring, but it greatly slows down my time to process art and it takes a huuge blow to my daily motivation. I have an INCREDIBLE amount of people pledging to the color commission tier, and it's so difficult to process so many images.
The largest problem is that I'm greatly undercharging myself, the amount of money I get from processing these colored commissions is not even close to the amount of time it takes me to process these images. My colored commissions is in the $60 range, and I'm charging $20 for the exact same thing here. It's incredibly difficult on me to continue the tiers the way they currently are.
Therefore, I am changing the tiers.
>$1 tier will remain the same as a donation tier
>$5, and $10 tiers will remain the same, concerning having access to the monthly featured image(s); uncolored and colored respectively.
>$15 tier will have access to all rewards in previous tiers, as well Work in Progresses/Drafts for doodle dumps, patreon commissions, and monthly featured images. I will process these more often to make this tier sustainable. (I can't get rid of tiers that have people pledged to it. I will get rid of this tier if every last person unpledges due to lack of interest.)
>$20 tier will grant you access to uncolored sketches. It will be called "Sketch Commissions". There will be no colored sketches you can get here. However, I will now offer grayscale/monochrome coloring. I'll decide whether or not an image looks better with the grayscale, but I will of course accept if after I send the image, you ask for there to be grayscale or not. (not all images I do look good with grayscale, sometimes they look rly nice as just sketches :D)
Examples below:
Regular Uncolored sketches:
Grayscaled images:
>$30 tier will have limited slots!! It will be the new colored sketches tier, only 3 slots a month. I need to really finish my regular commissions as well as start making art for gumroad, so I can only manage 3 colored ones at a time.
I'm still technically undercharging myself, but I find these prices the most fair! I really need to work around trying to process these in a speedy and fair manner for the amount of pledgers I have. I'm expecting to go down a lot in pledgers, but that's all right! I'll just work harder on processing featured monthly images and getting these processed.
PLEASE READ!!
If you already pledge to the $20 and $15 tier this month, I will message you today or tomorrow asking for your commission request for this month and will have them finished sometime early next month.
For those who still pledge to the $20 tier right now, I will still make you a colored sketch commission- but I will offer you the choice on having the image grayscale or colored. It does not bother me if you choose colored, you're just getting what you paid for! Don't be afraid to say you prefer to have your image colored; the only thing choosing grayscale will do is it'd help me process the image faster, I can go either way. c:
TIER CHANGES WILL BE CHANGED AUGUST 31st, AMERICAN TIMEZONES. PLEASE CONSIDER ADJUSTING YOUR PLEDGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!! Reply here for any concerns, questions, or comments/ideas!
Thank you so much for reading, I really appreciate everything ;-;
